Category: Technology

  • Warming up to social software

    I’ll be in London tomorrow, doing a favour for a friend, and facilitating the first part of “Social software: Maximising knowledge-sharing in your business,” a workshop being presented for the Ark Group. The friend is David Ferrabee and I’m more…

  • Apple’s corporate omerta and share price growth

    At lunchtime, I was reading “Steve Jobs: The man who polished Apple,” a most excellent feature about Steve Jobs and Apple written by Times journalist Bryan Appleyard and published in the Times Online (and probably in the newspaper itself as…

  • I like to think of Friendbook not Facefeed

    Surprise news last night was Facebook’s acquisition of Friendfeed. Facebook – a giant among social networks – has grabbed the comparatively-tiny Friendfeed content-sharing service (which has just 12 employees) as the means to accelerate Facebook’s product development plans, according to…

  • How bad can it get for SpinVox?

    When I think about SpinVox and the huge public kerfuffle that broke out last month stemming from allegations made in a BBC investigation over SpinVox’s audio-to-text transcription service, Billy Flynn and razzle-dazzle from the musical Chicago is mostly what springs…

  • The fragility of the social web

    So it appears that the perpetrator of the denial of service (DoS) attack yesterday on Twitter, Facebook and some Google services was someone who wanted to prevent anyone connecting with a Georgian blogger called Cyxymu. The attack which started in…