Category: Web

  • 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…

  • FT launches online clippings service

    The Financial Times launched a new service today: online clippings, designed to enable you to capture content from anywhere on the FT website and save it to your clippings account page at FT.com. If you’re a paying subscriber to the…

  • Old media promotes Google new media

    The battlelines between Google and Microsoft seem to be getting clear. Search: Yahoo sells out search to Microsoft Operating Systems: Google plans a rival computer operating system Next-Generation Productivity Apps: Microsoft intends to launch Office into The Cloud I make…

  • Gartner restricts usage of hype cycle graphics

    It’s that time of year when industry analysts Gartner publish their annual hype cycle report for emerging technologies. Last week, Gartner did indeed publish this year’s report, the Hype Cycle For Emerging Technologies 2009 report, available for clients to purchase…

  • Facebook and Twitter are for oldies

    A new study from social media researchers Anderson Analytics shows how different generations are using social networks like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and LinkedIn. If you pay attention to such metrics as have been published over the past year, it probably…