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Category: Technology

  • Web 2.0 investing on the rise

    Venture-capital investment in Web 2.0 companies, generally ad-supported websites in fields like social networking or blogging, is showing signs of maturity, with more deals happening outside the Silicon Valley tech heartland. A Wall Street Journal report says: Investors directed $646.2…

  • Adding to the first line of blog spam defence

    Yesterday, I installed an addition to the first line of defence against comment and trackback spam that Akismet is so successful at. That addition is reCAPTCHA, a plugin for WordPress (with versions for other platforms), that adds a step to…

  • Unblocking the net for employees

    One thing I’ve got to know well over the years about my podcasting partner Shel Holtz is his passionate views about internal communication, intranets and all manner of technology as it relates to organizations and communication. So it comes as…

  • The iPhone is coming

    Much of the speculation during the past week or so is now confirmed – O2 has done the deal with Apple to be the exclusive distributor of the iPhone in the UK. Going on sale on November 9 at various…

  • The trouble with RSS and feed validation

    RSS is one of the most useful communication tools ever invented. Having a tool that automatically brings you information you’re interested in as soon as that information is published on the web has a terrific productivity benefit. No hunting and…