Category: Trends

  • Wikio top 30 UK tech blogs for Feb 2009

    This is getting to be a nice habit – for the third month in a row, my friends at information portal and news search engine Wikio have given me an advance look at their latest ranking of some of the…

  • Twitority fires a first shot at authority search on Twitter

    Loic Le Meur’s kick-start yesterday of a storm of discussion about his call for a means of searching Twitter posts by authority has just borne some early fruit in the shape of Twitority. Twitority is a search tool that lets…

  • The end of Woolies draws close

    I popped into Woolworths when I was in Wokingham at lunchtime, just to see what was happening. As just about everyone in the UK knows, Woolworths – a retailing institution known as Woolies – will close the doors on all…

  • Yes, we do predictions

    This evening, I’ll be in London’s Soho taking part in “Chinwag Live: Xmas Futures, Crystal Balls?”, the latest panel discussion session and social get-together organized by Chinwag, the network and community for digital media practitioners in the UK and beyond,…

  • 5 tips to being safe online

    The email I received this morning from PayPal was such a genuine-looking one, it almost had me fooled. Except it wasn’t from PayPal at all but instead an attempt at phishing. The first giveaway that it may not be the…