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Monthly Archives: December 2007
Wired on the Tech Trends that will change businesses in 2008
Wired is inviting readers to vote on The Tech Trends That Will Change Your Business in 2008
“Who’s going to win big in 2008? To answer that question, you need to look at the major tech trends affecting business in the coming year. We’ve put our picks below — with our arguments for each one — and we want to hear what you think, too.”
Their top five picks to get the debate started are:
1. Online Storage
2. Business apps on social networks
3. In flight wi-fi
4. The fall of Microsoft Office
5. Mobile advertising
Small is the new big
Jeff Jarvis on the inexorable slide of the local newspaper companies, who, he argues, have abandoned the small local advertisers and followed the large ones, only to find their market share slide in favour of the internet pure plays. A message here for b2b?
Technorati Tags: advertising, media, newspapers
Hadoop vs Google
Will open source Hadoop “cloud computing” software unthrone Google? Read on here.
Economist to try social networking againt
paidContent.org reports that the Economist is working on a new social networking site for “incredibly bright and influential” people to commune together. This is despite the inconclusive end of its Red Stripe Project.
Technorati Tags: social media
Google clear to buy DoubleClick
The FTC which regulates all things media in the US has finally given permission for Google to acquire ad network DoubleClick. Google’s own take on the decision is here.
Technorati Tags: advertising, Google, m&a
ABCe figures for November are out
paidContent reports on November’s audit figures for the UK’s newspaper sites. The top five are now:
1. Guardian Unlimited – 17.5m unique users
2. Mail Online – 14.4m unique users
3. Telegraph Online – 12.8m unique users
4. Times Online – 12.28m unique users
5. Sun Online – 11.6m unique users
1. Guardian Unlimited – 17.5m unique users
2. Mail Online – 14.4m unique users
3. Telegraph Online – 12.8m unique users
4. Times Online – 12.28m unique users
5. Sun Online – 11.6m unique users
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Blogging from an iPhone
I haven’t used my iPhone to blog yet so I thought I would give it a go. I can’t find any authoring tools so I’m using the basic WYSIWYG editor on Blogger itself. One funny thing: it wouldn’t let me enter text except in the HTML box – although that seems to be working OK. The autocorrect is working on the key board too – which is a good thing as the iPhone soft key board takes some getting used to!
Google’s competitor to Wikipedia
Google has launched a competitor to Wikipedia. Called Knol or Knols – we’re not quite sure – it features articles (or “knols” – units of knowledge – written by a single author but voted upon by readers. Lifehacker points out that, now Wikipedia makes up the top result in such a large proportion of searches, it was inevitable that Google would want some of the traffic for itself. The Google account on the Official Google Blog, is here.
P.O.S.T. for social success
Forrester analyst Josh Bernoff has come up with a new acronym to help companies navigate the world of social technologies. POST stands for People, Objectives, Strategy and Technology.
People: don’t start a social strategy until you know the capabilities of your audience;
Objectives: pick one – listending to customers, or talking to them, for instance
Strategy: what will be different when you have finished?
Technology: what’s appropriate – a wiki, a blog, a hundred blogs?
Technorati tags: blogging, social media