Category: Business

  • 8 tips on giving away books for free

    Wired Magazine Editor Chris Anderson‘s new book Free is about the free economy, and he’s walking the talk by making multiple versions of the book – in print, online, and audio – available for free. I’ve got a copy of…

  • In today’s cloud you need a local backup

    Over an early-morning cup of coffee, I read an op-ed piece in the the New York Times by Jonathan Zittrain, author of The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It (a book I read last year). Zittrain’s op-ed…

  • Facebook’s big number: 250 million

    Social networking site Facebook said today that its user base now comprises over 250 million people around the world. While the announcement post by founder Mark Zuckerberg isn’t especially compelling (it reads like a rather un-compelling corporate announcement), the interactive…

  • Easy FT on the iPhone

    The Financial Times has joined the growing group of media companies offering an easy means for readers and subscribers to access the newspaper’s online content from wherever they happen to be via a bespoke app for the iPhone. Today the…

  • Google embraces Twitter

    Google has 46 separate Twitter accounts when I looked just now. Like every other company looking at tools like Twitter, they’re no different – Google people want to be where other people are online. Clearly, Google-owned Jaiku (remember that?) isn’t…