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Archive for January, 2008

‘Completely open social networks do not work’

Human beings collaborate. They also deviate, plan and plot. On a good day, they’ll create intricate towers. On average days, they’ll saw half way through your chair leg while you’re out at lunch. This seems to be the basis of a piece over at Publishing 2.0, which argues that Digg – the original open social [...]

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Media 2.0 = Snowballs

 

According to Yahoo’s VP of Video and Media Applications, the revolution has already happened. Ian Rodgers reckons the only option left for the music and video business is in ‘leveraging the scale of the web’.

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MacBook Air: the thin edge of the wedge?

A day of tears, of laughter, of debates over the merits of USB ports. Yep, Jobs whips out the world’s thinnest laptop, and I spend a morning with three web developers and designers chewing over the consequences. Our lives are really that empty.

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CoverItLive: blogging goes real time

God knows how many people will use it, but huge credit to the Einsteins behind CoverItLive.

Sign up for an account (which is free, by the way), and you have instant access to a turbo-charged blogging tool that blurs the line between blog and instant messaging.
All you do is add a line of code to your [...]

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Like Google, only hand-crafted

Just stumbled upon a Firefox extension from the people at Mahalo.

Not Earth-shaking, I know, but quietly cool. Mahalo, in case you’ve been holidaying on Mars for the last six months, in the new search engine from Jason Calacanis, the entrepreneur who brought you such legendary web properties as WeblogsInc (the power behind Engadget and Autoblog).

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Baby Boomers Storm Internet

Everyone knows the UK has an aging population – by 2012, the average Briton will be 132 years old, and all of them will rely on the handful of under-20s to help them cross the road.
Doubt this as fact? Try a new report from Neilsen, which points to a fundamental shift in the age profile [...]

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Checkout Trends: the new retail price index

Just about everyone working on the web uses Google Trends at one time or another, if only to give that quick gauge on which term would prove more popular (Hilary or Barack?).
But now there’s Google Checkout Trends, the search equivalent of every retailer opening their ledgers to the world’s prying eyes. Well, almost.

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The Little PC That Could

I must be going lo-fi. For some reason I can’t nail, I want the £250 Asus Eee PC.
God knows why. The hard drive is tiny. The thing runs Linux, and to my knowledge I can’t add new apps if it runs out of steam. I’ve played with one for 10 mins, and the casework wears [...]

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Goodbye Sky, Hello 360-Vision?

Now this could be good news. I’m quietly resenting my growing monthly Sky bill, and have been chewing on alternatives. But given the fact that Virgin doesn’t rock my boat, alternatives seem thin on the ground.
Then, my XBox 360 became something else. Yesterday, Microsoft announced that it was partnering with BT (of all people) to [...]

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The largest threat to Google yet?

Wikia Search went live today.
So what? So it’s the brainchild of one Jimmy Whales, the clever chap who brought you Wikipedia. So there’s just a remote chance that it may fly.
The search results are, so far, pretty damn poor, and many of the preferences do not work. But as the world gets stuck in and [...]

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