Category: Trends

  • The iceberg uncovered

    This week’s edition of The Economist arrived in the post this morning. Not an unusual event, really, except it reminded me that last week’s didn’t show up until Tuesday because of the postal strike for three days. Which followed the…

  • Wikio Top 30 UK tech blogs for November 2009

    Another quick look before publication at the Top 30 UK tech blogs list, thanks to my friends at the Wikio search engine. The top 30 list is a subset of Wikio’s compete Top 100 UK Technology Blogs ranking, the November…

  • A look at a future of the social web

    Brian Solis writes a thought-provoking post about how he sees the future of the social web, prompted by a Forrester report of the same name published in April. Forrester’s research examined what’s happening in the context of what they describe…

  • Twitter metrics still miss mobile and apps

    Market intelligencer Hitwise published new research yesterday about visits to the Twitter website, showing that such visits have been in decline since a peak in July. The figures relate to visits by US users to the Twitter website, which follows…

  • The world in 2015 according to Google

    What will the future look like in five years’ time? That’s in 2015, the year of the next-but-one Rugby World Cup (a fact) and the end of the fourth estate (a prediction). It’s also the year of some predicted cool…