It's no secret that the web has opened up an exciting world of information. Curiosity piqued? Type it into Google, hit enter and et voila, instant knowledge. But that frontier has been pushed even further with a new web application that makes systema...
The internet since first conceived in the late 1980s has been a place of innovation. There has been so much innovation that you'd think it would be hard to single out an innovator or innovation which stands out above the rest.
But there is one inn...
I've been victim (stupidity or entrapment, I'm not sure yet) to a couple of mobile subscription services recently. Browsing any old half-decent mobile site only to be hit with a 5 euro/month charge that apparently I opted into once downloading the co...
The annual O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing conference has just closed in New York and as usual it was a digital-publishing feast. Though I didn't get to go myself, the flood of blogging and tweeting that came from the conference kept me happy...
The internet, and particularly the ebook industry, is littered with debates about aggregation and monopoly, and in many of those debates the two concepts are confused. Let's be clear: aggregation is good, monopoly is bad.
For instance, a serious d...
Like Jonah in the belly of the whale, you cannot possess power. Rather, it possesses you. Google would do well to understand this.
One of the more interesting people I've interviewed is a man called Ali Allawi. Based in London, Allawi has the look...
Jerry Yang will be stepping down as Yahoo! CEO in the near future; as soon as they find a capable replacement. In an email to the employees, he says the decision to step down was taken jointly with the board. In translation: the board gave a vote of ...
On October 28 2008, Google announced a huge development in the course of its work with books. It is potentially the biggest single development in the book industry since the founding of Amazon. As a result of a settlement agreement in a class action ...
In honour of Google’s 10th birthday, the company has released their oldest available search index to the public. You can search on it and it will provide results based on 2001 data. It is very interesting to note the differences in the results that...
After seeing the decidedly deluxe and off-beat design of the Google Zurich office that has made the rounds of the internet, it is vaguely disappointing to see this blog post about Google South Africa's sales office.
Google Zurich reeks of money an...
