Category: Business

  • Prediction 2007: A great year for communicators

    I’ve been reading what a lot of bloggers are predicting for 2007. If only a handful of these things actually happen, it will be a phenomenal year for people, for business and for Life As We Know It! While I…

  • Growing pains for Second Life

    I managed to connect to Second Life this morning for the first time in two days. The virtual world – generally known as the grid – was completely offline since Thursday as developer Linden Lab grappled with a combination of…

  • The great PR cock-up

    The phrase “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” seems to be an appropriate idiom to describe a developing kerfuffle surrounding Microsoft’s latest blogger outreach campaign ahead of the launch of Windows Vista at the end of January. Concisely,…

  • Finding the real aphrodisiac

    It’s been said that we now live in an attention economy, what I equate to what everyone used to call ‘information overload.’ It addresses a situation where there is so much to which you could give your attention that the…

  • Ex-TechCrunch UK editors are back

    TechCrunch UK may still be on hold but Sam Sethi and Mike Butcher, the two ex editors, have emerged with Vecosys, a blog covering Web 2.0, mobile and new technology firms across Europe: […] Although we’re based in the UK,…