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With many global brands such as Ford, Coke and Harvard Business School getting into it, blogging has gone quite mainstream, in the USA at least.
But the corporate world is now just waking up the world of microblogging, Twitter, Plurk and Spoink, if you like. So when Exxon Mobil jumped into [...]
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OFCOM, the UK telecoms regulator has released its fifth annual communications market report, which shows people in the UK are spending more time than ever using a variety of communications and media services.
On average, Britons spend a total of seven hours and nine minutes per day surfing the net, using mobile phones, [...]
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The Isle of Man provides a good framework to support the commercialisation of space.
This is the theme of a report by Timi Aganaba, a graduate student from the International Space University (ISU) in Strasbourg, France.
She’s just finished a three-month secondment in the Space and Satellite division of Island law firm Cains.
‘The very first thing I [...]
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In the last couple of weeks we’ve seen two new internet launches designed to upset the market. In one case it’s an industry leader going after an open source success; the other sees a start up taking on the global leader. Let’s start by taking a look at Knol, Google’s attempt to unseat [...]
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It’s surprising how many people still are unaware of RSS (Really Simple Syndication) when you consider how it can help individuals and companies make the most of the internet.
RSS are web feed formats used to publish web content frequently and deliver information directly to the desktop of subscribers for free.
Industry research shows that tens of [...]
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Suppose you invested a million dollars in staging a huge corporate event and only 100 people showed up?
You’d be disappointed no doubt, and you’d be asking the organisers for a good explanation!
But this is exactly what’s happening to many companies who are making a huge investment in online social networks, according to a study by [...]
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The people behind Paramount Pictures, Dreamworks and US TV networks Comedy Central and MTV have been making headlines with concerns over online privacy.
Viacom, which was spun off from CBS as couple of years ago, has agreed to let Google strip identifying information from YouTube viewers’ data before complying with a judge’s order to hand over [...]
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Despite the widescale adoption of wikis, blogs, intranets and other forms of internet communication, email remains the killer app that keeps us all in touch.
Sending an email has become as natural as drawing breath.
In fact, we are inundated with emails, both wanted and unwanted. We have sophisticated filtering technologies that [...]
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For the past two years my company has used the Wordpress as the content management platform for Strive Notes, our blog, and it’s never let us down.
A favourite with bloggers worldwide, the platform provides all the interactive features that make blogs social, and it’s as easy to use as word processing software, so [...]
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Last year I became an accredited consultant for the Isle of Man Department of Trade and Industry’s Business Support Scheme (BSS). The scheme lets companies get help in various business disciplines by underwriting half the fees of approved consultants, up to £4,500.
Last week the people behind the BSS invited all the approved [...]
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Tuesday 17 June 2008 was a pretty important day in the Internet world.
It’s the day that Mozilla released Firefox 3, a new and improved version of its free web browser that has become the biggest rival of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. As part of Mozilla’s launch strategy, they planned an attempt to set a [...]
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Rackspace Hosting, one the UK’s biggest hosting companies, has just built a carbon-neutral data centre in Slough.
It’s powered by renewable energy sources from Scottish and Southern Energy’s dedicated bio-mass plant built right next door to the data centre. The plant burns wood chips, waste paper and fiber fuel to create electricity, hot water [...]
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A friend from the UK came over for the TT practice weekend. We were enjoying the sunshine on Saturday, snapping pix of each other all day long.
But, she asked, if I were to upload them to Facebook could I please not tag her? The reason? She’d thrown a sickie at work and didn’t want her [...]
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Each month, I write up a round up of the previous month’s most popular posts on Strive Notes. Interestingly, this month only one of the fave five relates to PR…the rest are tech stories. Things that make you go hmmmmmmmm. Perhaps we’re not engaging in the PR conversation the way we should be? I’ll think [...]
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Last week my daughter pinged me on Facebook. ‘Check out LinkedIn, a kind of Facebook for business enthusiasts,’ she said.
It made me smile that she’s pegged me as a ‘business enthusiast’, but she had reminded me about the very first online social network I’d joined back in 2006. Back then I’d joined up and quickly [...]
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When software behemoth Microsoft jumps on any one bandwagon, trends and fads immediately turn into real world propositions. So when our friends in Redmond revealed their new Live Mesh last month, software as a service (SaaS) had fully come of age.
Of course MS doesn’t use the SaaS category that we’ve all come to understand, instead [...]
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I tend to write quite often about Facebook, but it’s another social network that is actually the global leader in terms of users.
MySpace has more than 200 million registered users worldwide and has claimed to be the driving force behind many cultural phenomena such as Lily Allen, the Arctic Monkeys and Enter Shikari.
Also, [...]
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Global investment in Web 2.0 tools for the business market will rise to £2.3 billion by 2013, according to Forrester Research.
This represents an annual growth rate of 43 per cent. But Forrester believes the sector may begin to dwindle in five years’ time.
This is hardly crystal ball stuff. Five years is two [...]
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I have been telling people for several months that Twitter will be the Facebook of 2008. And with each passing day I become more convinced.
My first Tech Talk column about Twitter was published last April when I said how boring it was, with constant tweets about what someone is eating and which socks [...]
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Not one, but two, major UK ‘olitical parties have come up with the solution to all the problems that plague government information systems. And, they have both done it in the same week.
Incredibly, they have both come up with the very same solution — if you can believe the coincidence. It is called [...]
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The media is still full of doom and gloom about the global banking and finance industry, with daily stories about valuations being cut and massive redundancies being imminent.
We like to think that the Isle of Man will not take a hit, but it would be naive to assume that world events cannot touch us.
As reliant [...]
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