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As a medium, the internet is comparable only to the book. However, the ubiquity, scale and potential of the internet is, firstly, not yet fully realized, and secondly, without doubt utterly incomparable. Some argue that the internet should now be considered an inalienable human right. While others would have the internet banned outright. Whereas some, like China, choose sensorship…

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Faceook may just have forced Google’s hand. PeopleRank, anyone?


They say we are judged by the quality of our enemies. Maybe so. But given the gauntlet thrown down by Facebook at their F8 conference yesterday, if Google pick up where they left off, we’ll be judged by the quality of everyone else in our social graph…

Thursday, 22 April 2010 → Category: Communication, Google, Internet, Microsoft, Personal Branding & Brand Management, Social Media & Social Networking, Society & Culture

Google looking to Wave power for a better Buzz?


All of the buzz about Google Wave has turned to a ripple since Google Buzz made a big splash in the same social pool. What gives? An internal strategy of innovation that looks for all the world like endemic mismanagement…

Thursday, 1 April 2010 → Category: Communication, Google, Internet, Social Media & Social Networking, Software & Hardware, Technology

Google’s Street View gives Canadian’s a virtual reality check


Town authorities in the Ontario city of Windsor, Canada recently successfully petitioned Google to re-shoot parts of their city because they didn’t like what people were seeing. Do the Windsor authorities have a point, or are they in for a virtual reality check? Either way, if you’re in PR, the whole remit of your profession just widened by the width, depth and breadth of the world wide web…

Thursday, 11 March 2010 → Category: Google, Internet, Society & Culture, Technology

Errant ego spammers endanger Engadget solidarity


“Comment and be known”. Sparking a conversation with your readers is the most important thing a writer / blogger can do. But for some, moderating those comments and managing the personalities that use comments for their own personal digital deification can be a major challenge — as both Engadget and myself have learned…

Monday, 8 February 2010 → Category: Blogging, Communication, Internet, Media & Publishing, Personal, Society & Culture

3 ways to fix Facebook


Facebook is broken, from the very first moment you go to their home page — from dead-end conversations, irrelevant updates, to application overload, here’s three ways to fix Facebook.

Sunday, 3 January 2010 → Category: Internet, Social Media & Social Networking

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