So, it seems a walled garden is being erected around Google services (it’s always been there for Facebook). I can’t really see this hurting Facebook very much. The loser is (once again) the user who will no longer have the facility to easily join …
I have every sympathy with Google. Hopefully a lesson here also for the UK public sector – there are other (and better and cheaper) products than MS Oulook, MS Sharepoint and Internet Explorer 6. Whatever happened to that level playing field?Ampli…
I will be running a session on the ‘Knowledge Hub’ at the the Local by Social Online Conference this Wednesday 3rd November, 3pm to 4.30pm (GMT). See more details below about the Online Conference. A brief synopsis of the Knowledge Hub: Knowledge …
Great news for anyone who supports open standards and quite a brave move for Yahoo (parent company) who have recognised that having a proprietary login process (you need a Yahho ID in order to sign-up for Flickr) may be a disincentive to setting u…
Social TV is slowly but surely making its entry in the social world offering you the possibility you watch television, real time or on demand, while checking tweets about the program and interacting with friends or likeminded people who are watchi…
I’ve been running a regular social media training event for some time now and have gradually built up a fairly comprehensive knowledge asset at the Social Media Toolkit Wiki that I use as the foundation for the training. Given the general thirst f…
I’ve long thought that if you treasure your privacy, then don’t use a social network! They exist to share information – about you and the people that use it. I must admit, Facebook seems to be worse than most in playing fast and loose with persona…
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/the-true-size-of-af…Some great infographics. Information is indeed beautiful!See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/ctqw via Amplify.com
Reads like a breath of fresh air – but will the puppet strings really be cut, or is there an alternative performance management scheme lurking in the shadows? Taken at face value this sounds like an excellent (and brave?) move by the coalition, an…
Well spotted by my colleague Conrad Taylor, a new geospatial application that plots more than 400 homicide cases reported by court reports and the Old Bailey’s archives. Something for the ‘gruesome violence’ mashup category maybe. You can even do …
