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The internet - don't you just love it! You can find anything that you want, when you want and wherever you are - you can connect via your iPod, laptop, cell phone, tv or fridge! If you've watched the web grow from it's humble beginnings to where it is now and just how it has become a seamless part of everyone's lives - it's been one hell of a ...

Apparently today is "annoy busy people" Friday an interesting follow to Valentines which saw along with the traditional google altered logo, and altered colour scheme for google docs (to a particularly eyebleeding shade of neon pink), and an altered logo for youtube. My friend Rob Scoble is getting emotional about ...

Following on from yesterdays news that Google desktop is hijacking your 404 pages, it's been clarified by Matt Cutt of Google that it applies to pages with less than 512 bytes.   So in the ongoing Yahoo, Microsoft bid, Silicon Alley Insider nicely summed it up predicting a $35 per share completion by Microsoft (up from the original ...

So Facebook slowed in growth in December, now Myspace has grown in January. Let's be honest nobody really knows what's happening on the big scale of social network use. http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/10/myspace-reportedly-had-a-surge-in-january/EA Games the biggest computer games manufacturer owns the rights to produce digital version ...

I have just had an interesting off-line conversation with SQL Server MVP Chuck Boyce about Google Gears. If you read the blurb:Google Gears (BETA) is an open source browser extension that enables web applications to provide offline functionalityand includes the ability toStore data locally in a fully-searchable relational databaseWe started to ...

One month ago I published a review of Google Maps for Mobile and Windows Live Search for Mobile which you can read here. Today Gear Digest have published their own, much more detailed, comparison of the two as well as Yahoo's similar offering. Unlike myself who just did a feature-by-feature comparison Gear Digest make a firm ...

Google have created quite a stir with their Google Maps for Mobile tool (my colleague Keni Barwick has talked about it here) but did you know that Microsoft have had a very similar tool called Windows Live Search for Mobile available for alot longer? These two products are the best examples that I can think of to illustrate the ...

In a recent blog post Jamie raised some interesting questions for debate around the value of branding on the internet. Since his comments were suitably open in an attempt to promote discussion, there was too much to respond to in a single comment, so I have posted a reply in a new blog, but you can see Jamie's original post here. How valuable ...

Blog king Robert Scoble recently posted a mildly critical opinion of Live Maps in comparison to Google Maps. That isn't what got my attention though and isn't why I'm posting this. The discussion in the comments section got round to brand value on the internet and Robert stated: "Brand doesn’t mean *** ...