Jack Schofield at the Guardian has blown the myth that a black background to Google will save the planet… Blackle.com is a search engine that claims to save thousands of watts of energy by searching Google (to which it has no connection) with a black background instead of a white
The BBC has an interesting roundup of social networking sites under the headline “Don’t be lonely this Christmas”
An article in The Observer about the maverick Web entrepreneur Dan Wagner is sceptical about the millions to be made in social networking sites. Although most have yet to make a profit, several social networking sites have sold for enormous sums. Wagner is launching shopping website Osoyou: which aims to
The BBC has an interesting report on how “growing numbers of individuals and small businesses are using home-made videos to sell goods and services online.” A new way of marketing and promoting your business, or even yourself? Imoondo.com is a US site for video classifieds. No doubt more and more
Well it’s not been a wonderful summer so far as technology goes. Small businesses and homes have been hit hard by three days of “unprecedented” disruption to the Skype internet telephony service. According to the BBC: The problems with the service began on 16 August and stopped millions of people
The Web, and especially the user-generated opportunities now available in communities and Web 2.0 applications, are revolutionising the way we get our news. Yesterday and today was a good example. One’s heart goes out to the relatives of those killed and injured in the dramatic bridge collapse in Minneapolis. Bloggers,
So there’s nothing to worry about – healthwise – from mobile phone masts. That’s certainly reassuring – for most of us. Mobile phone masts are not responsible for the symptoms of ill health some blame them for, say researchers at the University of Essex. Dozens of people who believed the
HotHouse, a leading Australian strategic online solutions company, has an interesting blog (noise) about web strategy, online marketing, and using Web 2.0 to grow your business. A useful place to see up-to-date information from an Australian perspective, and thought-provoking comment for us all. For example they point out that the
The BBC reports today that Oxford proctors are using the Facebook website to gain evidence about unruly post-exam pranks. They are checking students’ profiles and photos to find evidence of students being at the sites where problems have been reported. This should remind us all to be careful about what
In conversations I’ve had recently about public online communities and social networking sites, the point has been made that if a community is moderated (particularly pre-moderated, that is before publication) then it is closer to a “publishing model” and the owners of the community can be seen as responsible for