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The leaders of the UK’s three main political parties have all agreed to participate in television debates in the lead up to the May election. Most pundits [...]
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I’ve been trying out Foursquare recently. It’s a social network that taps into location-based services. It’s early days for Foursquare, but I think the idea has legs. It works much like the other social nets; [...]
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If you’re already using Facebook, Twitter and email you might wonder why you’d ever want or need to get involved in Google Buzz. The new social service, launched last week, seems to mimic many of [...]
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Search engines exist to help users find the web content they seek. These top tips leverage search technology to help get your site to the top of Google [...]
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Students get more than they bargain for when a Happiness Machine replaces the soda vending machine. This YouTube video from Coke has been viewed +373k times in [...]
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Michael Jackson via last.fm
Some say it rivals the deaths of Diana and Elvis as a ‘remember where you were when you heard the news’ moments.
For millions and millions of people around the world, hearing news of the sudden death of Michael Jackson was like hearing about an old friend. But this time it was different.
This [...]
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It’s true. Google is cool. It’s still in development, but the world got a preview a few days ago with a developer preview and what we saw is ‘way cool’. I can’t wait to ride the Wave.
Google Wave co-creator Lars Rasmussen is also one of the people behind the development of Google Maps. [...]
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It was June 7, 1999, when a new tech start up ‘dedicated to providing the best search experience on the web’, Google, announced it had completed a $25 million round of equity funding led by two Silicon Valley venture capital firms.
Fastforward to 2009 (about 100 million years in Internet time) and the world’s [...]
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I’ve been neglecting my Top 5 lists of late, owing to the pressures of work. But that doesn’t mean I’ve not been keeping an eye online. Lots of great stories are being told. Here’s what I liked this week:
1. Jade Goody, PR and the media is a thoughtful post by Heather [...]
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Last Friday morning saw me reluctantly drag myself out of my lovely, warm bed in the Isle of Man at 4.30am to venture all the way to Manchester for the ‘Don’t Panic: Your Guide To Social Media’ conference. Just a hop, skip, a car ride, plane journey and a train ride later, I rocked up [...]
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At their professional developers’ conference that took place last week in Los Angeles, Microsoft revealed the many ways it intends to extend its software services via the web.
In a long expected answer to Google Apps, the folks from Redmond demonstrated, for the first time, their new Web applications for Office, which are lightweight versions of [...]
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Technorati is the Google of the blogging world. It’s the most comprehensive source of information on the ‘blogosphere‘ and, since 2004 the company has published an annual report which analyses the trends and themes of blogging, and this year’s study makes for interesting reading.
Technorati tracks blogs in 81 languages and bloggers from 66 countries across [...]
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Do you think of cloud computing as some advanced theoretical concept that only super geeks and rocket scientists really understand? Nothing could be further from the truth; you are probably already in the cloud in some way.Ask yourself the following questions.
Do I use Hotmail, Gmail or any other similar email service?
Do I have a Facebook [...]
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It was last November when I first wrote about Google Android. At that time the company had just announced the launch of an open source mobile phone platform that would put it into direct competition with both Microsoft and Symbian.
But what set them apart was that they issued it under [...]
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Further to my recent post on how easy it is to use RSS. The guys at CommonCraft have just released this short how to video for Google Reader. Enjoy.
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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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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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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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We have been trialling Google Apps in recent weeks and I have been very impressed. Google wraps several products into an excellent package to use with your own domain name. It is an offer that resembles Microsoft Office and includes email, a calendar, chat, word/spreadsheet/presentation software, a web page editor and a structured wiki site [...]
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Internet companies are holding an enormous amount of consumer data that can provide companies with deep market insight. A new study has revealed that, by tracking what individuals search for and where they go on the internet, the Googles and MSNs of this world know what people like and what is important to them. This [...]
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On the 12th day of Christmas my true love gave to me…money, shopping, criminals, Ofcom and Led Zeppelin…?
1. I didn’t know too much about Conrad Black until recently (for obvious reasons). However, I came across him on the Top List of Best and Worst of 2007, and after I read up on him and his [...]
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I try not to write about Google all the time, I really do.
There is so much news coming out of the company that I could write a Google column every week if I wanted to. But the whole world covers Google and I try to avoid writing about them so that I can offer something [...]
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October has come and gone. I’ve only just now had time to look at Strive Notes’ stats for the month. Posting is up and so is traffic, thanks in part to Jo and Deana’s recent contributions. Here are the most popular post for the month.
5. Jo is doing a good job with her weekly Top [...]
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At the recent CMI event on Web 2.0, the panel was asked what we thought would be the next big thing in social media. My response was that I thought mobile handsets would become a main focus.
I think that once we get secure e-payments via mobile worked out, just about all personal computing will go [...]
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My son asked me, this weekend, what is the distance between Newton Aycliff and Durham? “No idea, Google it!” was my reply.
It now takes just moments to research any subject, yet we apparently have less and less free time? Or are we just trying to cram so much more into a working day?
This week I [...]
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I haven’t done a top five in months so I must be well past due. Here are some posts I particularly enjoyed this week.
1. …TWL…the anonymous tech PR blogger throws all the toys on the floor and spits the dummy. I love it! It reminds me of my friend Cynical IT Guy, who [...]
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I can’t tell you how guilty I feel about neglecting Strive Notes so badly these past few weeks. Business and life seems to be getting in the way of blogging. This guilt was compounded this morning when I checked the stats to find that, despite the lack of new content, visits to the blog were [...]
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Do you write for people or for machines? Well it would be naive for any blogger to not consider the SEO benefits of the headlines they choose. The Telegraph’s Shane Richmond discusses the pros and cons of writing for SEO.
He says you risk turning off humans if you concentrate to much on keyword indexing. At [...]
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There’s a new name on this weekly feature for no other reason than I couldn’t resist the alliteration
1. …the world’s leading…has a go at late payers. Most consultants know what a pain it can be to have to spend effort collecting on invoices. I’m not sure the approach taken here is advisable, however.
2. [...]
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