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Delicious gets serious upgrade, world makes another cup of tea

Fashion… what a wicked mistress you are. Back in the day (2005), Delicious was gravitational – objects gyrated around it, and you were nothing without a cooler Delicious bookmarks page than the next delusional geek.
Four years (and one Yahoo buy-out) later, fewer objects gyrate around Planet D. Firefox probably didn’t help (why stick your bookmarks [...]

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Why charging may be good for journalism

So the European Court of Justice decides that even a snippet of text from a newspaper can be enough to break the law, in the same week that The Associated Press decides to take aggressive steps to protect its content.
First, here’s the predictable response that the web’s most vocal analysts are barking to anyone who’ll [...]

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‘I’m the best Bing since Bing Cosby’

This isn’t a puppet.
It’s Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s insightful, experienced business leader, giving a considered evaluation of the recent Microsoft / Yahoo search deal. It’s always slightly awkward when an icon such as Ballmer opens up to the camera in this way, so it make make painful viewing for the more sensitive among you.
‘I took your [...]

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A message to United Airlines

You can usually tell when a company has wandered off the path. It’s the atmosphere in the reception, a shared look on the face of the staff, or maybe an indiscrete comment from one of the juniors on the team.
I’ve just arrived in Las Vegas from London, having flown via San Francisco with United Airlines. [...]

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Classic Mac ad: the way it should have been

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Woopra: the live stats addicition starts here

GBTV #337 | Introducing Woopra from Neal Campbell on Vimeo.
Now this I want. I’ve long been a fan of Google Analytics – it’s simple enough to scan-read in seconds, yet clever enough to provide the kind of insights that change the way you work.
But Woopra takes the whole game to a strange new level by [...]

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Last.FM: life after the big buy-out

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Last year, social. This year, knowledge

Ex-IBM boss Irving Wladawsky-Berger reckons an IT-based knowledge economy will be the most significant trend of 2008, grabbing the cool baton from social networking.
I confess to struggling with the concept at first. IWB points to a recent Business Week piece on ‘cloud computing’ – basically, server networks that can number in the hundreds of thousands [...]

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New Live.com: fighting relevance battles

So today, we have a new Live.com, with Microsoft attempting to steal some Google turf by primarily focusing on relevancy of search returns.
Sensible enough: apparently, many billions of hours of analysis by people with large foreheads revealed that most people want to find things.
Being a person, I thought I’d give it a totally unreasonable [...]

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Facebook: a fall is predicted

Marketing Shift has a principal analyst at Ovum foretelling rough times ahead for Facebook. He bases his argument on background legal action by the founder, the potential for identity theft and a possible crack-down on the use of the site in offices.I can see the latter beginning to cut in soon. Facebook profile pages are [...]

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