Category: Communication

  • Content-scraping is theft, pure and simple

    Jim Connolly posted a link on his Google+ page to “No Such Thing As A Good Scraper” by AJ Kohn, who writes a pretty good analysis and summary of what content scrapers often do with your written content. You’re not…

  • Google Cube game brings fun to learning

    A very neat idea from Google – a game to raise awareness of, and educate you about, Google Maps. Cube runs in your browser (ideally Google Chrome). You play it by completing levels that set you navigational challenges in various…

  • How to report Twitter hashtag spammers

    One of the most useful features of Twitter for events like conferences and tweet chats is the hashtag. A hashtag – a keyword preceded by the ‘#’ symbol – enables conference-goers, the event organizer and anyone else interested in the…

  • Twitter can’t be gagged, even in France

    The first round in the French presidential election ended yesterday with the result that Socialist Party challenger François Hollande narrowly edged in front of incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy by the slim margin of just over 1 percent of the vote.…

  • Aviva Investors, the uncaring employer

    It’s probably just as well that Aviva Investors talks only about its markets and its clients on its website home page, and not its employees. According to a report in the Telegraph, the HR department at the asset management firm…