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The challenges of explaining Web 2.0

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14 November 2007

If you can understand and explain what Web 2.0 is, that could be a real asset in your professional development. At least, that’s one interpretation of this chart posted by Steve Rubel: Indeed.com searches millions of jobs from thousands of job sites. This job trends graph shows the percentage of jobs we find that contain your search terms. Another rising skill according to this data is social networking, which I would interpret as understanding what it is, how it works…
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Communication, NevilleHobson.com, Public Relations, Weblogs

Latest PowerPR blog index

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Neville Hobson

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13 November 2007

From The Friendly Ghost aka Brendan Cooper. Top ten shown in the screenshot out of 100 blogs listed. This list is quite a project that Brendan has been doing more or less monthly since June. I don’t pretend to understand the depth of how he works out the ranks in the listing – just as I don’t with the AdAge Power 150 list – but this index might add to your perception of a blogger and the content he or…
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Communication, Europe, Social Networks, Society, Technology, Trends, Web

UK most attuned to social networks

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13 November 2007

The UK has the most social networkers in Europe, with almost a fifth of all internet users regularly visiting sites like Bebo, Hi5, Facebook and MySpace. According to BrandRepublic, that’s the key message in Social Networking Across Europe, a new report from Jupiter Research published last week. Jupiter’s executive summary says this: Localized site launches by MySpace.com and Bebo are aiming to drive European adoption of social networking sites, and the corresponding trend toward user personalization will increasingly lead to…
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Communication, Mainstream Media, Mobile, Online Media, Software, Technology, Web

Indicators of mobile web usage

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Neville Hobson

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12 November 2007

Some interesting posts and discussion on the BBC Internet blog centered around Linux and how open source the BBC is with regard to its sites and its content. What I found interesting are these stats included in Martin Bellam’s related post: It’s not so much the raw numbers nor Bellam’s analysis: […] as a proportion of users, there are more Windows and Mac users of the news.bbc.co.uk domain than across the BBC as a whole. This, of course, could lend…
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Business, Communication, Experiences, Reputation, Technology

Virgin Media’s myopia

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12 November 2007

Virgin Media is back on track after its customer exodus slows down, said The Times a week ago: […] The pay-TV and broadband group, whose hoped-for sale collapsed amid the global credit crunch, is expected to reveal a decline of about 31,000 customers in the third quarter, compared to a loss of 70,000 in the previous one. It will also stress to investors that a sale of the business will now not happen until next year at the earliest. […]…
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