Bob Cringely wrote an interesting article about what to do if a web-based service (you may also hear of it described as cloud computing or SaaS) stops. What happens to your data? The article argues that once you licence most software, so long as you have hardware that can run it you are fine and [...]
Thanks once again to Andy Bargey for organising the London Bloggers Meetup event. It was good to see so many people including Annie Mole, Jason Mical, Mr Hoang, Chris from Splendid, Kai and Kim Hong. I would have loved to chat with more people there but the heat and tiredness kicked in.
Yahoo Talks Up Future Search Features Despite Microsoft Deal; 400 New Job Cuts On The Way? | paidContent – Yahoo!’s positive spin on Microsoft deal looks more like death spiral Ping – The Digital Age Is Stamping Out Serendipity – NYTimes.com – interesting article on serendipity and discoverability reminds me of the social search projects [...]
I have heard a number of people repeating the mantra ‘If content is King, context is Queen‘ recently but wanted to ask what does that really mean any more? On the one hand location provides context, when I think about my online persona: LinkedIn is my business face Facebook and Twitter is more social Friendfeed [...]
Korean Sociological Image #14: How And Why Koreans Became The World’s Biggest Consumers « The Grand Narrative Reputation and trust in online gaming – eGaming Review – Jake Pollard’s write-up from the Reputation Matters event Red Beard on MySpace Music – my friend Keith’s band The race to the bottom of Free! – broadstuff interesting [...]
Sound of Detroit – Carhartt, originally uploaded by renaissancechambara. Carhartt Europe have come up with an interesting t-shirt design for their autumn and winter collection. The design evokes the white label 12″ record that one would have likely found Detroit techno from the likes of Juan Akin, Kevin Saunderson or Carl Craig – providing a [...]
Some thoughts on the recent Yahoo! | Microsoft deal. I think that Jason Calcanis put it much more succinctly than me, but I wanted to expand on some of the impact points: Yahoo! was playing from a weaker hand – Prominent board members like Carl Icahn have wanted a deal with Microsoft for a while, [...]
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