Category: Technology

  • Visual search with SearchMe

    Do away with boring text search and see what you’re looking for. That’s the thrust of visual search from SearchMe, a startup search engine currently in public beta that offers you something a bit different, and visually more attractive, in…

  • Microsoft and Yahoo: The end of a chapter

    The tech business news this weekend has been all about the collapse of the Microsoft takeover bid for Yahoo. Every shade of opinion on what it all means has been offered during the past 24 hours, as the Techmeme bubble…

  • Web 2.0 from the communicator’s viewpoint

      When I lead workshops, seminars and other professional development events that address social media and organizational communication, I always ask who’s heard of the term ‘Web 2.0.’ Usually, a reasonable number have, often as much as 20 percent of…

  • Three books for recommended reading

    I’m not a great reader of business books even though there are some 20 such volumes sitting on my office bookshelf, all read and mostly not remembered. Recently, though, there has been a slew of excellent and compelling business writing…

  • The Brits who went to Silicon Valley

    I’ve been following the progress of a group of 20 British tech startups who have been in Silicon Valley this past week as part of Web Mission 2008. The trip – sponsored by HSBC Bank, UK Trade and Investment, TechCrunch,…