Friday, November 21st, 2008
Ties that bind
[As ever, you can read this on the BBC News website]
One of the throwaway remarks I sometimes make at conferences is that “Google knows you’re pregnant before you do”.
I can say this because the things you search for will change as your life changes, and search engine providers may well be able to spot the [...]
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Who is responsible in our cloudy world?
[As ever, this is also on the BBC News website]
In the next few days [in fact it is now published] a number of large technology companies, including Google, Microsoft and Yahoo!, are going to announce that they have signed up to a voluntary code of conduct on how they do business in countries that curtail [...]
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Friday, September 26th, 2008
A link to eternity
[You can read this on the BBC News website - sorry it's late being posted here. But one day I'll be late too..]
While Google is as secretive about its internal processes and systems as Apple is about product development, every now and then senior people post articles on the official Google blog and offer their [...]
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Thursday, September 11th, 2008
The value of Chrome…
I’m writing a piece for Ariel, the BBC’s in-house newspaper, about Google Chrome, so I did some searching and was surprised just how many entries about the browser Google managed to find and how many of them were about the browser rather than the metal: if you search for ‘chrome’ on Google then the top [...]
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 23rd through July 30th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between July 23rd and July 30th:
Web curbs for Olympic journalists - What a surprise…
Plenty of Blame to Go Around in Yahoo Music Shutdown - Ed Felten knows who to blame, and I agree with him entirely.
Exploit code targets Mac OS X, iTunes, Java, Winzip… - nasty little piece of [...]
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Friday, July 4th, 2008
Closing the Gates after Bill
[This is my BBC column from Monday - I forgot to post it here in all the week's excitement (2gether08, New Media Awards, Shift Happens). You can read it on the BBC News website too.]
The publicity surrounding Bill Gates’ departure from Microsoft should not obscure the fact that he is still deeply involved in the [...]
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
Changing the Way We Think
[As ever, you can read this on the BBC News website, and Nick Carr has picked up on it]
In her recently published book ID: The Quest for Identity in the 21st Century, Professor Susan Greenfield brings her considerable expertise as a neuroscientist to bear on the question of whether and how our current use of [...]
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
My del.icio.us bookmarks for June 7th through June 11th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between June 7th and June 11th:
Google: Making Nick Carr Stupid, But It's Made This Guy Smarter - John Battelle's Searchblog - John Battelle disagrees over the impact of Google…
Is Google Making Us Stupid? - Useful reflection from Nick Carr
U2 manager: Ad-supported music is beneath musicians - Paul McGuiness shows [...]
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
I saw this…
Here’s what I’ve tagged on del.icio.us on %date%:
Cuba supports unrestricted Internet, but US embargo makes it impossible, CB - Cuba needs our support
TechCrunch UK » Blog Archive » BBC?s Sound Index is good, but we won?t get the data - Free our data campaigner Mike Butcher keeps on pushing
Speech to Google Zeitgeist Conference - [...]
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Monday, December 31st, 2007
A cloudy look ahead..
[As ever, you can also read this on the BBC News website]
If you’re ever asked to forecast the way computing will develop, offer to look three to five years ahead. It’s a good, safe time frame because if you’re right then people may just remember your prediction when you remind them how clever you are, [...]
