From the monthly archives:

May 2008

New layout and features

May 27, 2008

In celebrations of the enjoyable 1st month of blogging, I am changing the layout and design, adding RSS features and linking this blog to a new one I have set up that is entirely dedicated to Mobile. Enjoy

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The shift from social media to semantic web

May 25, 2008

This weekend was quite exciting with both businessweek and NYT examining, from 2 different angels, the relationship between a matured web (2.0) to it’s next stage, the semantic web.   In an interesting move, Marc Fron, CTO OF NYT announced the company’s plans to release an API to allow users to create a ‘mash up’ of information. [...]

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Please use my service…! I'll even pay you if you will!!!

May 23, 2008

*** post updated to include the new link *** Bill Gates is determined to give a boost to its search engine (5% of search market share). After the Yahoo deal (15% search market share) exploded (and though he is now trying to find new ways to only buy their search engine), he now found a [...]

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google doodle winner

May 22, 2008

http://www.google.com/doodle4google/

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ANT – we’re all one

May 22, 2008

Andre asked to post some links to useful online ANT (actor network theory) sources – so here goes… Explaining ANT through a blog post is a challenge at best and doing a dis-service to the theory at worst, but I’ll try my best. ANT is a social approach to assist with creating a framework for [...]

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technoman

May 20, 2008

This weekend I finally got to see Ironman, Marvel’s first independent and remarkably successful production after years of sharing revenue with mega-studios that produced films about their heroes. Ironman is one of the heroes ‘covered’ in the latest Met exhibition: Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy, a very swanky cool exhibition exploring the hero image through costumes, [...]

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personalised TV

May 15, 2008

today i stumbledupon a cool site which is a mash up between last.fm and youtube: you key your last.fm username – or if not registered, your favourite artist – and the site generates a series of clips of related artists: “It’s best described as an online music television based on your taste”, it’s creator Tim [...]

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doodle google???

May 13, 2008

Genious. Unbelivable. Kids doodle Google: http://www.google.com/doodle4google/vote.html   

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Trent Reznor and the evolution of marketing

May 13, 2008

Trent Reznor has long been a pioneer in the field of music and technology as well as Marketing. Yes, Marketing. Reznor is one of the few musicians to truly realise the essence of new platforms and new user behaviour, and to accordingly adapt and be able to translate and transform his creations presentation to his [...]

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Yahoo's web 3.0 move?

May 10, 2008

The latest news about Yahoo’s new beta test in India for Glue Pages (ahhm, familiar landing page design…) – a search that generates text, images and video results in a single results page – is one step towards web 3.0, the semantic web. It is great to see this coming from Yahoo, especially in a difficult [...]

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