Social Technology Profile Tool
A survey of data which shows how participation varies among different groups of consumers, globally.
Who owns your data and content?
Why don’t the social networks and communication tools you use work well together? John McCrea [Plaxo], Joseph Smarr [Plaxo], and David Recordon [SixApart] in the pilot show of TheSocialWeb.TV [Via Niv Calderon (Hebrew)]
Help Firefox set a World Record!
That’s one of the best virals I have seen. More than 2,000,000 downloads and still about 20 hours to go. Get involved and download Firefox by 8pm GMT today [Wednesday, 18 June]. I wonder if there is already a world record, and if there is who’s done it last time…
Taming the Information Monster
It seems that the big 4 [Microsoft, Intel, Google, IBM] are suffering from an overload of internal internet usage. People are not working — they are emailing, twittering, facebooking, and googling, while at work — and the big information conglomerates are in need to do something about it. Now these companies that created the big information beast will find [...]
Google donates to Yahoo! [updated]
Big news this morning: Yahoo and arch rival Google said on Thursday they had entered a non-exclusive partnership on search advertising expected to add as much as $800 million in annual revenue. This deal will give Yahoo! some money to breathe and will take Microsoft off their back. The real reason behind it is to give Yahoo! a [...]
iPhone 3G… Soon in your 3rd world country, but not in Israel
70 countries will soon get the [official] iPhone 3G. Israel is not one of these countries, and I’m quite annoyed at this. The most annoying thing is that Israel’s neighbours – Jordan and Egypt will get the iPhone. How ruthless can Apple be? People will stand on the other side of the border with their [...]
Adobe + Yahoo = Web 3.0
Can someone please introduce this idea to both of the above companies? Yesterday the news brought back the soap story of Yahoo vs “Big Company”, and I’ve had an idea. I like Yahoo! I like Adobe! I think it’ll be a good idea if they’ll join hands and merge (or whatever companies do). Two days [...]
Free literature, now available at your nearest website
“I didn’t grow up buying every book I read,” said the English born Mr. [Nick] Gaiman, 47. “I read books at libraries, I read books at friend’s houses, I read books that I found on people’s window sills.”Eventually, he said, he bought his own books and he believes other readers will, too. Neil Gaiman decided [...]