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No Surprise Here: Millenials Cherish Mobile Devices – media companies should be a bit worried through as content consumption is harder over a mobile device Work Smart 2: How to Take Smart Meeting Notes | Fast Company – good stuff here Motorola Out-Apps Apple in China – China Real Time Report – WSJ – but [...]

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William Gibson: I’m agnostic about technology. But I want a robotic penguin | The Observer – I love the phrase agnostic in relation to technology, its often how I feel Do people grow out of Location based services? – broadstuff – another post on check-in fatigue Turn Your Head & Swipe: Doctors Love the iPad [...]

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YouTube – Googlebeat’s Channel – Google produced magazine show based on what’s trending in search that week The Look Ahead: Google Narrows Its Acquisition Focus | paidContent – 2 billion USD per quarter. Slashdot Linux Story | Native ZFS Is Coming To Linux Next Month – this is an interesting move, hopefully ZFS will go [...]

The early history of Sun Microsystems by the founders

For those of use working with companies during the first web boom of the late 90s, two companies personified the web itself. One was Cisco and its dark-coloured router faces still dominate internet infrastructure. The other was a computer company recently bought out by database giant Oracle. Sun Microsystems at that time was the archetype [...]

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A Chronology of Brands that Got Punk’d by Social Media « Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang | Social Media, Web Marketing – some classics in here A Botched Hostage Rescue in the Philippines | STRATFOR – a really smart thoughtful analysis of the Manila bus hijacking The Freshest Kids in China | China Youthology 青年志 [...]

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Yahoo Completes Transition Of Organic Search To Microsoft – Barrons.com – all Bartz’d up Discontent Grows With Facebook Places’ Ability To Tag Without Users’ Express Permission – Facebook up to its usual ‘screw the consumer’ tricks Why Apple’s Dominance of the Download Market Really is a Big Deal | Forrester Blogs – or how the [...]

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Hot Potato officially lands in Facebook’s lap – bulking up on location-based services MediaPost Publications Pepsi Bottlers Add Digital To Media Mix 08/23/2010 – move towards online local advertising How Oracle might kill Google’s Android and software patents all at once — RoughlyDrafted Magazine – interesting argument, with some great facts, but I am not [...]

Ten web services I can’t do without

I started to think about the impact that connectivity makes in our daily lives, after one of my colleagues was worried about getting mobile broadband connectivity on a trip to Cardiff. So this prompted me to think about the ten web services that I can’t live without. Putting this blog on the list would be [...]

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Growing up fast: Vietnam discovers the consumer society – McKinsey Quarterly – interesting article on the growth of Vietnam Find a foreign embassy in the UK – fiendishly handy resource from the FCO Sony’s Appliance Wiring Technology Transfers Power, Data With One Cable — Tech-On! – crucial for portable displays displaying higher resolutions whilst keeping [...]

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No Copyright Law: The Real Reason for Germany’s Industrial Expansion? – SPIEGEL ONLINE – Germany was buoyed by a vast amount of how-to publications covering science, agriculture and industry SOPHISTICATION: Hirofumi Kiyonaga and Hiroshi Fujiwara | Hypebeast – I need to go and see this next time I am in Hong Kong Minister hints that [...]

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