As more and more of our world is digitised -- sales, maps, encyclopaedias, books, music, phone calls, radio, TV, you name it, it travels digitally -- companies constantly have to choose what to automate and what has to be done by human beings. In oth...
We have seen the internet grow up quite quickly and the technology used to power websites has become so amazingly powerful that the internet is no longer made up of glorified business cards, but highly programmable interfaces for a global community.
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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...
I've promised myself never to go on too much about social apps, but there is one app that I've fallen in love with, and I'd love to share it. I signed up to Geni purely by chance -- I think it was to check out the flash tree visualisation -- and my a...
We come out of a tradition of Enterprise 1.0, these days sometimes known as “old-school business”. Then the focus shifted to social networks and Enterprise 2.0 was born. Now people are talking about Enterprise 3.0, which includes Software-as-a-Se...
It seems like everyone is practising a little search-engine optimisation (SEO) these days. While you might have the basics covered, do you know where SEO is heading? I've been optimising websites for search engines since the late 1990s and this has g...
Science fiction is not normally my first choice of reading material, unless of course it is about the trips through galaxy as described by a very funny writer called Douglas Adams. But I have been converted to the modern Cory Doctorow-style science f...
Just to have some fun, here are some predictions by more or less famous people about all sorts of things. One thing this list teaches us is to be careful when saying "never"! When I wrote an article on the death of the PC, several people shot back at...
If we want to understand how communications could change in the next 15 years, we must look back over the same period -- to a time before the cellphone and the internet. Only then can we appreciate and prepare for the potential revolution that still ...
Three days of wonderful inspirational stuff at the Flash on the Beach conference has regrettably come to an end. As an aside, I got a beach towel and beach thongs, or flip-flops for the South African readers, in my free handout kit. It’s all of som...
