Internet

Pressure from the cloud

No, we’re not talking meteorology here!
I have been keeping an interested eye on some of the developments from Amazon with their Amazon Web Services, so when I saw the following tweet from friend/colleague/troublemaker @MasterMark, it made me sit up!
Oh, dude! It’s a war, and cloud is a battlefield. #orcl swallows #sun, and days l8r, #ibm [...]

Oh the irony!

This caught my eye via google alerts, emphasis is mine.
In a perfect world, all email clients would render our designs the way we intended it to be. Seeing as how browser compatibility for the web is still some way off, email client standardization would be eons away from reaching display nirvana.
Together with Outlook 2007, Lotus [...]

Chris Brogan: What Social Media Does Best

Chris Brogan has a great post in his series on social media.
This list is a must read!

Blogs allow chronological organization of thoughts, status, ideas. This means more permanence than emails.
Podcasts (video and audio) encourage different types of learning, and in portable formats.
Social networks encourage collaboration, can replace intranets and [...]

Marketing Pilgrim > Is Google Sick of Flash Web Sites? New Feature Encourages Users to “Skip Intro”

This post from Andy Beal caught my attention today, commenting on google’s latest feature. As part of its search results, Google is letting us skip a site’s flash intro.
So you know what we are discussing, here is an example search. Check out the [Skip Intro] link to the right of the result.
The new feature in [...]

Close to 3mb broadband I guess

Still way behind by modern standards mind.
Tags: isp, broadband, speed, spain, telefonica

Blog this song!

You bet!

Great stuff!
Via: Lotus Rock Star | SNAPPS isn’t going anywhere this fast… (also seen elsewhere already!)

On Facebook? Shop at Overstock? Then read on…

Some thought-provoking commentary for all us Facebookers out there. Particularly at this time of year, when we are all turning to the internet to help with the task of Christmas shopping.
Here is some poor guy’s story, painfully making it clear why Facebook’s Beacon is a bad idea in its current form:
I purchased a diamond engagement [...]