- UK 77 million
- France 72
- Germany 71
- Italy 59
- Spain 52
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
UK to become the biggest country in the EU in 50 years' time,
By 2060, the population of major Europen countries will be:
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Qik.com: Stream video live from your phone
Monday, August 18, 2008
Met Police launches Google crime map
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Beware of a new Facebook scam!
Today you may receive a message on your wall saying "Hey. Somebody wrote something about you in their blog.. everybody needs to see this.. Go here" followed by a blogspot URL. This will redirect you to a fake Facebook page where you will be prompted to enter your Facebook login details. DON'T FALL FOR IT! It is a scam designed by people keen to get hold of your personal data. I almost went for it but noticed the unusual URL at the top of the "fake Facebook page". Consider it a civic duty to spread the word.
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Creativity and Personal Mastery, summarised in one video
A truly life changing elective I took at business school with Professor Srikumar Rao, here speaking at Google.
Friday, August 08, 2008
Apple removes I Am Rich, a $1,000 featureless iPhone application
"Eight people bought the software, which has no function except to alert other people that you have money"... so why did Apple blocked it? Story on the LA Times.
Wednesday, August 06, 2008
Google offers free music in China
The service will let users search songs by singer or song title then download them from partner website Top100.cn, a Chinese music site. From CNet.
Friday, August 01, 2008
Google Lively, a Second Life killer? Yes but a slow death.
Google launched Lively, a browser based Second Life style real-time 3d world. It looks good, clean and fun but if you thought Second Life was slow... wait till you try Lively. Will it kill Second Life? Most Second Life users don't speculate on virtual lands and use the platform to meet and chat. They are the ones most likely to be seduced by Google Lively. Especially if they are from South Korea, the country of mega-fast broadband. For everyone else, they will prefer not to use Second Life than not to use Google Lively until they get a 50MB broadband connection. Via Tech Crunch.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Growth slump may force Italy out of eurozone
For my Italian readers. This is according to Capital Economics and the article is purposely alarmist.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Technorati state of the Blogosphere
The new results are not in but the survey leading to them is available here: http://v2.decipherinc.com/survey/mmc/mmc08001
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Second Life's economy is dominated by women's clothes
At least according to this entertaining article from Michael Parsons in the Times.
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Google Knol, a Wikipedia rival?
The main difference between the two is that Google Knol puts the spotlight on authors and their opinions while Wikipedia strives to be factual. To that extent it is more a Squidoo or an about.com rival. It is very early day but the obvious pitfal for such venture is to prevent articles from turning into disguised sales pitches. Another concern is that Google will favour Google Knol articles over Wikipedia in its search queries.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Beyond PR #24 on top 50 PR blogs in the world
There is a bit of a ranking mania at the moment. This one was compiled by Matthew Watson from the excellent Rainier PR. All I can say is a big thank you for including Beyond PR.
Shapeways lets you create real 3D objects
Upload your 3D design on Netherlands based Shapeways' website (incubated by Philips). They will provide you with a quote for 3D printing with a choice of four kinds of plastics (metal is planned) and shipping it wherever you like. The site uses 3D industry standard file formats (STL, Collada, X3D) and the average cost of objects is $50 - $150. As seen on TechCrunch.
I am very excited about the possibilities for artists and designers, from anime figurines to limited edition jewelleries.
See how it works here:
I am very excited about the possibilities for artists and designers, from anime figurines to limited edition jewelleries.
See how it works here:
Monday, July 21, 2008
StudiVZ sued by Facebook?
German's premier social network is apparently being sued by Facebook for "intellectual property infringement". Seen on TechCrunch.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Do problems with Wikipedia presage social networking’s end?
A provocative title but an otherwise thought provoking article about the fallacy of "democratic content" through user generated media. From Paul Murphy, ZDNet.
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