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We are the Zuckerborg….
As I mentioned in a previous post about Facebook’s purchase of the Instagram mobile photo-mangling application, there is a long and proud tradition in software and Internet industries of companies buying technology and customers. This is done for the following reasons: The purchasing company can’t be arsed to write or isn’t capable of writing the
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Woohoo! A new boom…?
I’d been expecting – or should that be suspecting – it for some time but we finally do appear to be in the grip of an Internet Boom to match the real world bust. When Facebook bought Instagram for a billion dollars – it was back to the good old days of 12 or 15
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“I heard the news today, oh boy…”
…which many will recognise as the opening line of the Beatles song, “A Day in the Life”. Unfortunately, I had to change the next line to ‘…and was as angry as Hell’ rather than ‘About a lucky man who made the grade’. Today, on Westminster Bridge in London, people protesting against Government Plans to ‘reform’
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-10-09
The revolution begins at home – Opinion – Al Jazeera English http://t.co/WwXdAorZ via @ajenglish # Shame on BBC and Sky not reporting protests about NHS bill on Westminster Bridge #blockthebridge #blockthebill #fb – censorship. # Jobs was utterley ruthless – @wisemonkeyash – and that's how he did what he did. # Sunday 9th October is
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…and yes, I saw Jupiter!
Well, I mentioned in my last post that I was going to haul the venerable telescope out of the garage, set it up and then take a look at Jupiter. And on the 29th September I managed to do that. (For anyone curious as to the 10 day gap between doing it and blogging it,
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It’s weird what brings you back….
…to blogging. I’ve had a few months that should eventually give me plenty of grist to the blogging mill, but to be blunt right now much of my time is being spent writing PHP and .NET code for those wonderful people called ‘paying customers’. Most people in small businesses will probably agree that this year
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-07-03
Watching a girl opposite me crochet – I have NO IDEA how that works! Wooly magic! #fb # Powered by Twitter Tools
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Just one more thing….
Yesterday, Peter Falk died. The 83 year old veteran actor had had dementia for a few years – an ironic end for a man who will always be known as Columbo, the dishevelled homicide detective with the razor sharp mind. Enough will be (rightly) written about Mr Falk over the next few days, and I’m
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Left to Apple, 2014 could be like 1984…revisited…
Those of us of a certain age in IT will remember Apple’s famous TV advert for the groundbreaking ‘Macintosh’ computer back in 1984. The advert, here on You Tube, portrayed how the Mac would free computer users from the grasp of the evil Corporate Computer giants (such as IBM and Microsoft) and did a lot