As our world progresses into the future we keep on finding our self with more information coming ever so closer to our fingertips.
The world of the cellphones is very much upon us, with more and more people becoming connected to one another just by the touch of a button. Gone are those days of written [...]
Tags: Apple, BlackBerry, Google, iphone, Microsoft, nokia, Smartphone, Windows Mobile
Did you know that there are 31 billion searches on Google a month and 7 billion text messages are sent daily? Well, did you?
Tags: Advertising, Google, On the Web, Search Engines, social media, Social network, web, YouTube
Apparently, I am the office Acronym queen! WTF, I have no idea why I was called that! But could have been another name all together so I best settle with this title then! ROFL!
So in a world where things are developing at an exponential rate! Who knows, maybe acronyms will form a part of our [...]
Tags: acronyms, aim dictionary, future communication, modern communication, omg, rofl, wtf
I am not a fan of the original version of The Apprentice, perhaps it’s all the American hype or it could just be Mr Hair himself, Donald Trump. In fact, I’m not big into reality TV so it goes without saying that when the water cooler chat moves to last week’s episode of The Cougar (?!) and SA’s Got Talent, I tend to wander off to chat with the pot plants.
Tags: Alan Sugar, Apprentice, BBC Prime, Donald Trump, Liverpool, Reality television, Television
The good news for those of us who don’t speak Chinese is that other radical changes will occur in the next five years which will actually benefit us. We won’t send you to watch the full 45-minute interview available on YouTube – it’s a super-snooze fest and besides, the kind, now-snoozing-no-doubt ReadWriteWeb (www.readwriteweb.com) folk already did that for us. But we did think these points he made were interesting (highlighted by aforementioned now-snoozing ReadWriteWeb folk):
Tags: eric schmidt, Google, Predictions, web
Say what? For most of us web illiterate folk out there, Phishing is great fun, sitting at the sea, drinking beer and waiting for the Big Bite! Or ……The-One-that-got-away!
But is it really all that….? Sadly, we would like to think of jolly, sea-side fishing in this case, but the sad reality about Internet Phishing is [...]
Tags: identity theft, online fraud, phishing, Security, virus
Anyway, inane ramblings aside (another sign that maybe my brains are actually being scrambled, possibly by me cell), turns out I’m not the only one concerned about cell phone radiation. So in that, at least, I’m not completely psycho. On my side, I’ve got the Environmental Working Group who’ve actually launched an online cell phone radiation chart. Check it out here.
Tags: Cell Phone, Environmental Working Group, Health Concerns, mobile phone, Radiation
So you’re out with a group of friends and meet a few random interesting people. You ask if they’re on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter….. You get round to finally trying to find them on your preferred Social Networking site and you have forgotten their name, surname or just can’t decide which John Smith they are?
Tags: Business, Facebook, Online Communities, Poken, Social network, Social network service
Why should I care about my handwriting (or indeed allow myself to be placated by such an insipid insult about the rest of my being)? Well, thanks to FontCapture.com, and Killer Startups who found FontCapture and broadcasted it to the world, my handwriting is now actually something I can use to make the world a prettier place.
Tags: creativity, font, fontcapture, Graphics, handwriting, typography
Microsoft’s new search engine Bing has made impressive gains in market share since launch. According to comScore Inc Bing’s Market share grew 4.5 % between July and August, giving it a total share of 9.3%, not bad for a search engine that only launched on the first of June. This puts Bing in third place behind Yahoo (19.3%) and Google (64.6%).
Tags: Bing, Google, search, Wolfram Alpha, Yahoo!
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