Business, Communication, Technology
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One thought about the 2009 IABC World Conference in San Francisco has been floating in my mind since I was at the event in early June.
That thought is to do with connectivity.
By that, I mean the difficulty I experienced (as did others) in getting a consistent and reliable-strength wifi signal in most of the [...]
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If you’re a Wimbledon fan and you have an iPhone or iPod Touch, and you want to keep up with what’s happening at this year’s tennis championship no matter where you happen to be, there’s a treat in store for you.
Just head over to the App Store and install the Wimbledon iPhone Application.
It’s free [...]
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While the mainstream media is proving its worth (and its mettle) in its reporting of fast-moving events in Iran, that parallel universe known as social media is a channel for huge volumes of comment and opinion, the type that is more local and niche and which typically doesn’t get the attention of the mainstream [...]
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In light of what’s happening in Iran at the moment, and the role of social media in connecting people, a new report on the Arabic blogosphere makes for interesting reading.
While Iran isn’t an Arab country, its location and influence in an area of the world constantly in the news makes the report all the [...]
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A post by Frank Eliason on business cards got me thinking a lot about the value of such bits of paper.
And they are bits of paper, aren’t they? Name, title, company, logo, address, phone, email, etc, printed on rectangular bits of stiff paper. The format hasn’t really changed in years.
Yet it’s a format we’re [...]
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A new version 2.8 of Wordpress was released this week and I’ve upgraded this blog to that latest version.
2.8 has some significant new features, enhancements and fixes. What better way to show you what some of them are – just get a load of the much-improved new widgets admin – than with this short WordPress [...]
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Palm launches its newest mobile device in the USA tomorrow – the Palm Pre – which some people see as the closest thing yet to an iPhone killer.
Here are the two gadgets compared side by side.
If you’re not in the USA, or in a country where either device is available, just ignore the sections on [...]
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The latest ranking information for UK blogs, for June 2009, is about to be published by Wikio, the information portal and news search engine.
As with each month this year, my friends there have let me have an advance look at some of that data – the ranking of the top 30 UK tech blogs [...]
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The other day, Windows Vista Service Pack 2 (SP2) was installed on my Dell XPS 420 desktop PC via Windows Update.
Ever since, I’ve experienced a number of weird things. No matter which way I look at them, I can’t see any other reason other than SP2 somehow has Done (or Undone) Something.
What else would you [...]
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The new Google Analytics Data Export API which Google announced on Friday makes it easy to share some of your Google Analytics data on a WordPress blog thanks to a nifty plugin created by Spiral Web Consulting.
[…] this plugin allows WordPress users to easily configure tracking and reporting of Google Analytics data without having [...]
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