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Google Buzz and Google’s incursion in to Social Networking
Many years ago there was a joke in techy circles that likened Microsoft to the Star Trek aliens ‘The Borg’. It appeared at the time (mid 1990s) that Microosft were indeed determined to assimilate everything they encountered and absorb the technology of other companies in to their own. Well, like the Borg in Trek, Microsoft
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Espresso Entrepreneurs and Cargo Cult Capitalism
An item caught my attention recently – so much so that I actually replied to the other blog! It suggests that in order to succeed as a startup you actually need to be in Silicon Valley or a similar place. My reply is below: “Bit of tough luck for us Europeans, heh? Most start-up entrepreneurs
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Saying Sorry, Contrition, Repentance and the Scorpion
Earlier this week I commented on the words of John Healey, the Housing Minister who said that repossession is not always a bad thing. As has been pointed out, the 46,000 people repossessed in the last year would probably disagree, and would no doubt like a word of apology from him. You know, the ‘s’
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A 21 hour working week? Earth calling nef….
I don’t like to admit it in public, but I kind of like my work. I’m self-employed, in IT. I probably do around 35 hours a week ‘client facing’ work and probably about 10 hours a week grubbing up new work, invoicing, etc. I’ll work longer hours when needs be, and slack when I can.
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We know where you’ve been on the Net, and we don’t need no steenkin’ cookies!
I’m not overly paranoid about people knowing where I’ve been on the Internet; I’m aware that it’s pretty easy for a website to feed your browser ‘tracking cookies’ that can be used for marketing and advertising purposes, and these can then be picked up on other sites, thus providing a path of footsteps that you
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John Healey – Caring, sharing New Labour – repossessions can be good!
Unsurprisingly, repossessions are at a 14 year high. It would have been unthinkable for the recession to have had any other impact on householder finances, as is indicated by this report on the BBC website today. So it was pretty useful for John Healey, the current housing minister, to be interviewed today on Radio 5.
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BBC bias in favour of globalisation?
As is my habit, I popped in to the BBC Website this morning to catch up on what’s been happening in the world and saw this article, with the link headline from the front page of ‘Why globalisation means you are less likely to be burgled’. Hmmm, I thought – interesting. As I expected, the
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Social Search = global groupthink?
A few days ago I came acrossthis item in Google’s blog – looking at what they call ‘Social Search. This is a set of applications being developed by Google to allow image content that you and your social circle (as set up through your Google account) have posted on image sharing sites such as Flickr in
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Can money buy happiness?
My answer to this question has always been ‘No, but it makes misery feel pretty good.’ However, according to a recent session at the World Economic Forum at Davos, the answer might be ‘Yes’…or then again it might be ‘No’. I’m not entirely sure about the answer, partially because I know very few wealthy people
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What happened to the Stiff Upper Lip?
In separate interviews, we heard today that Prime Minister Gordon Brown had openly cried when discussing the death of his daughter in a media interview, and we also found Spinmeister Supreme Alastair Campbell losing his composure during another, rather mild, TV interview. And we’re not talking about losing his composure in a ‘throwing the lapel mike