Feeling silly
If Bill Gates was on Facebook…
His page would look like this: Some absolute gold in there. “Bill Gates just bought Azerbaijan”. The Wall-to-Wall between Bill and Steve. And I love the gift from Linux on the bottom-left corner.
Networks
Phorm launch in the horizon
Phorm (also known as Webwise) has declared that it is finally set to launch its service in the UK with BT’s ISP service. Phorm is a service that allocates web users a unique number, it then monitors websites that the Read more…
New technologies
Is Google an amoral monopoly?
I have read with interest Henry Porter’s scathing indictment of Google in yesterday’s Observer, an article generating some heated discussion online. While I often enjoy his writings, I have to say that on this occasion he has written a thoroughly Read more…
New technologies
The cameras are at the gates!
The unveiling of Google StreetView UK is being met with that uniquely British mixture of outrage, amusement and derision that I can never quite get right (much like the intricacies of the English language I suspect, but I digress). On Read more…
Web 2.0
Twitting humble pie
My dislike of Twitter is well documented. I had checked Twitter before I opened an account in July 2008, and I must admit that I did not like it at all. Perhaps it was the fact that I could not Read more…
Web 2.0
Are blogs killing traditional journalism?
Doom and gloom for journalists. Recent weeks have seen a number of stories about the demise of local papers prompted by the rise of the Internet. Last Sunday The Observer had a similar piece that asked a leading question: Who Read more…
Conferences
5th COMMUNIA workshop
Last week I attended the 5th COMMUNIA workshop on Accessing, Using, Reusing Public Sector Content and Data. I was pleasantly surprised by the level of the presentations, the depth of the discussion, and the pragmatic approach to the topic of Read more…
Copyright
PRS not horsing around with copyright
(First ear muffs, next headphones?) The British Performing Right Society (PRS) has been in the news recently thanks to its continuing struggle with Google. The PRS is also known for its forceful pursuit of performance fees from an unsuspecting public, Read more…
e-commerce
Blurring the real and virtual boundaries
Mathias Klang has posted about an interesting development in the increasing complex interaction between the real and the virtual worlds. Swedish game developer MindArk has been granted a banking licence by Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority. MindArk are known for developing Read more…
Announcements
Software patent workshop reminder
Computer Implemented Inventions Workshop Wednesday 1 April 2009Venue: Moot Court Room, Old College This event is the idea of Professor Philip Leith, Queen’s University Belfast, and it is organised as part of SCRIPT’s Information Technology Law Foresight Fora. The objective Read more…