“I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.”
That was President Kennedy’s mission statement for the NASA missions to the Moon. I’ve used it on project management training courses as an example of [...]
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I’ve been wanting to write something about the value Facebook has as a business for some time, but it was this story at econsultancy’s blog that finally provoked me into action. Since Facebook sold a stake recently to a Russian investor, there’s been wild speculation and stacks of comment about how the company could possibly [...]
Bill Gates has bought a stake in the UK carpet retailer Carpetright, according to this article. A strange choice of business, at first sight, but what if he’s working on interactive floor coverings? Put the Carpetright story together with this one, and all becomes clear.
Thursday, October 25, 2007
News International is (according to this article) about to launch a vertical search engine focussed on the UK property market. To some, this might seem like a fairly uninteresting development in online property advertising. There are lots of property websites in the UK, Rightmove being the most prominent. Zoomf (who I’m involved with as a [...]
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
On the day that rumours spread about Microsoft taking a $500m stake in Facebook, Nielsen released their latest stats on social networking sites, and it seems I might be right about nothing lasting forever. According to this article at Media Guardian, although Facebook is the most popular social networking site today, it’s growth is slowing, [...]
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
According to this article at WiredNews, the emoticon is 25 years old tomorrow. They were first used by a Professor Fahlman at Carnegie Mellon University, apparently.
I found this article from Microsoft really helpful, if a little serious, on the subject of how and when to use them. It explains that “emoticons are sideways faces that [...]
Monday, September 17, 2007
About 20 million people seemed to have made it down to the South Bank this weekend for the Thames Festival, though it doesn’t seem to have got much news coverage. They closed Southwark Bridge on Saturday for a food fair, and it was so busy they had to stop people going up the steps from [...]
Thursday, September 6, 2007
Lots of people will already know that a lot of spam is sent from machines (sometimes called zombies, but mostly people using them are quite unaware) that have had a virus installed on them. This is common because it makes it harder for anti-spam software to spot which machines are sending what spam, and because [...]
My friends at Zoomf.com are looking for people who can talk about how they use the Internet, especially to search for things like property, to help them identify and prioritise new features for their website. Anyone who does help will get paid a bit, and it should be fun. All the details are here.
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
If you’re feeling brave, go and have a look at the video at http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/23/bush-says-he-uses-the-google/
I don’t really know where to start with this. The serious and comic potential are both so great.
Has he used it to search for bad guys in Afghanistan? Does he know it’s not real-time?
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