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Live Mesh

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

  With Microsoft's 'next big thing' Live Mesh now firmly on the horizon, more details are becoming available about the system and how it will surely revolutionize the way information is shared globally. Introducing the idea of a web-desktop where the interconnection of web technologies and desktop operating systems provide a complete service, Live Mesh is surely the future of desktop computing. Here's a brief overview of the services offered in the Tech Preview which is now online: Interconnectivity The online 'device ring' area shows all the devices that are connected to the Live Mesh network, giving you the option to add new ... Read Article »

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Sphinning out of Control

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

Having been a user of Sphinn for quite a long time now, a site which I find very useful and I respect greatly for the general quality of news items posted there by its users, I'm becoming concerned about the volume of companies who think they can get themselves links from this site and actually think their mindless spam is worthwhile. Sphinn is an INTERNET MARKETING news and discussions site which encapsulates many corners of web activity. It is NOT a resource for promoting car insurance deals, free gym equipment or information about gluten-free pizzas. Those thinking about organising an SEO ... Read Article »

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Firefox 3 Turns up the Heat

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

Well they've done it, and it was predicted long ago. Yesterday's launch of Firefox 3 has smashed the Firefox 2 download record by achieving over 8.3 million downloads in 24 hours. That works out at roughly 5,764 downloads per minute worldwide. This record means that Firefox 3 already has 4% of the market share for web browsers despite only being 48 hours old. I have no doubts that Guiness will recognise this acheivement in the next world records book. From what I've seen of Firefox 3 so far it doesn't appear to have any drastic improvements over Firefox 2. Regardless, this ... Read Article »

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Profy - The casual all-in-one

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

I came across Profy today and it really impressed me. It claims to be an 'all-in-one' blogging platform, a haven for bloggers if you like, where a combination of blog posting, social networking and feed reading is combined into one easy-to-use platform. Having watched the demo, it certainly does look easy to use and this leads on from my previous post about who uses social bookmarking. My concerns of casual Internet users being able to use such features were founded on lack of purpose to uses them and lack of mass documentation describing what they are and how to use ... Read Article »

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Who Uses Social bookmarking?

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

You look at any blog post including this one, and you'll see various tags attached around the pages tell you to 'bookmark this', 'sphinn that' or 'make this post a favourite' and I'm sitting here thinking who actually uses all these widgets and why? Digg claims to have over 20 million users, which is quite incredible but who are these users? The idea is that when you bookmark a site or a post, it becomes saved in your profile on the social bookmarking site and most likely shared to other users using the same service. So by making this bookmark, you ... Read Article »

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