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Do away with boring text search and see what you’re looking for.
That’s the thrust of visual search from SearchMe, a startup search engine currently in public beta that offers you something a bit different, and visually more attractive, in your online searching.
The company has been around for some years. See this post on TechCrunch [...]

The tech business news this weekend has been all about the collapse of the Microsoft takeover bid for Yahoo.
Every shade of opinion on what it all means has been offered during the past 24 hours, as the Techmeme bubble can attest.
Here in the UK, it’s been a top headline news item on the hour [...]

 
When I lead workshops, seminars and other professional development events that address social media and organizational communication, I always ask who’s heard of the term ‘Web 2.0.’
Usually, a reasonable number have, often as much as 20 percent of participants if the overall audience is a non-geeky crowd.
Things then get interesting when I show an image [...]

I’m not a great reader of business books even though there are some 20 such volumes sitting on my office bookshelf, all read and mostly not remembered.
Recently, though, there has been a slew of excellent and compelling business writing that is very much to do with a broad area in which I have a strong [...]

I’ve been following the progress of a group of 20 British tech startups who have been in Silicon Valley this past week as part of Web Mission 2008.
The trip - sponsored by HSBC Bank, UK Trade and Investment, TechCrunch, BT and Heller Ehrman Venture Law Group - was designed to showcase innovative UK web [...]

The winners of CNet Networks’ Webware 2008 contest to find the best 100 Web 2.0 applications and services were announced on Monday.
This is what Web 2.0 looks like today according to the 1.9 million votes cast by Webware users and the fans of those products and services:

Quite a few Web 1.0 names in this [...]

Last year it was Facebook. Today’s shiny new object unquestionably is Twitter.
If you haven’t heard of Twitter (it’s now just about in the mainstream), it’s simple to describe:
Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are [...]

Being able to get online with your computer when you’re mobile is something that you tend to take for granted, with wifi hotspots almost everywhere.
In my experience, though, it’s sometimes trickier to connect than you might expect, even when there is wifi all around you.
The alternative is a cellular connection, ie, the same network [...]

Part of your online identity, for a start.
Have you registered a domain in your own name? If not, have you checked whether someone else has? And if they have, do you know what they’re doing with your name?
Naked Conversations author and FastCompany TV presenter Shel Israel knows what’s happened to his name which someone else [...]

A discussion on Twitter early this morning about Windows Vista has got me thinking about faith.
I’ve been a Windows Vista believer since the operating system was in beta.
Even in the face of relentless negative opinion - seemingly everywhere you look - about Microsoft’s latest OS, I still reckon it’s pretty good.
Yes, it does still [...]