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Full story: FIR Book Review: What the Plus! Google+ for the Rest of Us by Guy Kawasaki
Listen Now: Google+ is Google’s social network, launched publicly in September 2011 following a three-month beta test phase. According to its Wikipedia entry, as of September 2012, it has a total of 400 million registered users of whom 100 million are active on a monthly basis. In What the Plus! Google+ for the Rest of Us Version 2.0, author (and unashamed Google+ evangelist) Guy Kawasaki explains how to get started, create an enchanting profile, optimize your content for social searches,…
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Full story: Where the internet lives
It’s a picture of Google that you wouldn’t possibly imagine when you think of the search engine giant that, increasingly, is directly involved in many other services. Multiple pictures, in fact, that tell a story far more valuable than 1,000 words. Stunning photographs accompany a great report in the Daily Mail that takes a look inside some of the huge server farms Google runs around the world that enable you and me to do searches, get our email, watch YouTube…
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Full story: Paper breadcrumbs
The Telegraph reports that The Guardian is "seriously discussing" the closure of its print operation and focusing wholly on digital. In other words, no more print, only digital content. Says The Telegraph: […] the company has been forced to steadily shrink the Guardian newspaper, getting rid of some of its flagship supplements. GNM [Guardian News and Media, the paper’s publisher], has also pledged to axe up to 100 of its 650 editorial staff, but has struggled to find enough people…
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Full story: The mindset shift in open government online
The British Government has launched GOV.UK, a new website that is designed to be the single place online for access to wide-ranging information and other content about government services available to citizens. The new website replaces the public sites Directgov and BusinessLink; and websites of all government departments and many other public bodies will be merged into the new site in a new Inside Government section between ‘soon’ and 2014. Yesterday’s announcement, issued under the name of Francis Maude, Minister…
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