Archive for December, 2008

2008: year in a rear view mirror

December 31, 2008 in Government, Social Media, Technology, Web 2.0
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‘Tis the season for year-end reviews, but usually I can’t manage to write one to save my life. The year goes past too quickly, and I forget half the important stuff. But not this year it seems, as there’s been plenty happening on many levels.
Has it been a good year or a bad year? Am [...]

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Users baffled as Zune MP3 players freeze up
Thousands of Microsoft Zunes suddenly simultaneously freeze up. Weird. Even as MS bugs go, this one’s pretty freaky. Something to do with the clock setting and the leap year/leap second in 2008?
(tags: microsoft zune)

BBC | Ad Breakdown’s pick of 2008
A review of the good, bad and [...]

Is the future micropayments?

December 22, 2008 in Technology, Web 2.0
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Until quite recently I’d never used the iTunes Store, and had very little exposure to ‘micropayments’. Now, I have to confess – I’m a huge fan and convert, and wondering how the micropayment system can be used in the future.
I hadn’t bought anything from iTunes until the middle of this year. For one thing, I [...]

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FreshNetworks Blog » Blog Archive » So how do you measure ROI of online communities?
The simple answer is that you make sure you establish a set of criteria when you launch the community and then judge success against these. The complex answer come with some of the ways in which you may judge [...]

Of pandas, hellboys, and horror

December 14, 2008 in Films

For a change of pace, I thought I’d post some reviews of films on DVD I’ve been watching in recent weeks. They go from Kung Fu Panda to Hellboy, X-Files to Stephen King.
I’ve had the last week off work, on holiday – mainly dedicated to doing something about Christmas shopping, which I’m happy to say [...]

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BBC | Canvas and the connected home
Project Canvas is the plan outlined on Thursday by the BBC, ITV, and BT to co-operate on a common platform for IPTV. And Bill Thompson’s home set-up might be the result we start to see from 2010.
(tags: technology future)

The digital home hub is finally happening
Long promised – [...]

Firewall UK starts to bite

December 8, 2008 in Government, Technology, Web 2.0
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Why the weekend story about access to Wikipedia being banned is so much mroe than just a little local difficulty – if you value freedom.

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What should Obama do next?
Indie uses online app for mindmapping plus wiki, visualization plus debate.
(tags: obama visualization trends infographic)

BBC | The brilliance of creative chaos
One in the eye for those who insist on tidiness!
(tags: writing thinking psychology)

The space between Twitter and FriendFeed
Twitter is quicker, Friendfeed has more features and better pictures. Is there [...]

Mainstream media’s wary view of Twitter

December 4, 2008 in Social Media
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The terrorist attacks in Mumbai last week may prove to be the tipping point for Twitter, in that it seems no news organisation can now resist doing a story about the microblogging service.
The BBC has done two radio reports this week, one for BBC World Service’s Digital Planet and the other for Radio 4’s Media [...]

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Ning shuts down adult entertainment social networks
For all the proffered reasons, why not just say “this just isn’t what we wanted Ning to be used for, and we don’t like it”? Hadn’t realised Netscape’s Marc Andreesen was behind Ning. Interesting use by The Guardian of a FLickr photo under Creative Commons license, but [...]

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