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One to watch, as it were… BBC Internet Blog

[...] I think we have been slow to embrace blogs as a way of discussing our strategy and direction. This often leads to the debate happening elsewhere, based often on only half the information, and without our being able fully … Continue reading

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Silly money

From TechCrunch: Facebook Takes the Microsoft Money And Runs. The $240 million is a minority stake that values the company at $15 billion. Uh oh…

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The Next Net 25

This from CNNMoney.Com: A new Web revolution is picking up steam, and the next Google or Microsoft could emerge from the companies that are in the vanguard. Via a certain high-profile blog on our intranet!

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Amazon takes on the search giants with Alexa

Every so often an idea comes along that has the potential to change the game. When it does, you find yourself saying – “Sheesh, of course that was going to happen. Why didn’t I predict it?” Well, I didn’t predict … Continue reading

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Web 2 or not web 2

I’m full of admiration and respect for Tim O’Reilly but I get really wound up by what he’s coined “Web 2.0” or “web 2 point oh” as it seems to be pronounced. It’s just the web. Nothing more nothing less. … Continue reading

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Google base: another step towards global domination

If you add in every small business in the world – and believe me, Google is thinking that way – you can sum up Google’s ambitions in the commercial world as this: the company would like to provide a platform … Continue reading

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Google calendar imminent?

I’ve been looking for some open source calendar software to sit alongside my blog for my own personal use and to share if useful one or two event categories with friends and family Having just read that a google calendar … Continue reading

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Goodnig8t

Blogging is changing and challenging journalism. It changed and challenged mine even though I was doing the blogging. It is a way to focus the collective intelligence of the audience onto the facts and arguments. Moblogging from a single device … Continue reading

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Google map pins – joining the dots

Several times recently I’ve been describing walks and runs to people and thought wouldn’t it be great to be able to plot them out on the amazing Google maps service. It already does a great job with routes from A … Continue reading

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Lies, damn lies and statistics

I’ve just spent 10 minutes filling in Cameron Marlow’s weblog survey for his phd at MIT I’m looking forward to seeing his results

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