Tag archive for ‘Google’
The Google Conspiracy: How Google caused an international incident and why
On January 12, 2010, Google announced that a major attack launched against its network from hackers inside China (aimed at exposing the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists) had prompted it to consider abandoning its Chinese operations and reconsider its 2006 agreement with the Chinese government to censor search results in the country. “Google [...]
Affluence.org – Vanity sells for big bucks
Affluence.org has been proclaimed ‘Facebook for rich people’. Every niche demographic seem to have their own social network and Affluence.org has been designed for rich people who like to talk to rich people… exclusively. It aims to bring ‘the members-only country club‘ mentality to the web but whilst this may sound like a good business [...]
Remember Old-School Social Networking?
Remember FriendsReunited? Back in 2000 the UK spin-off of ‘Classmates.com’ in many ways laid the foundation of today’s biggest sites. It had a business model, a growth rate to rival that of Twitter and even made a profit of £22 million in 2007 – something Facebook and MySpace are still struggling to do. So what [...]
I miss DocSyncer
Image via CrunchBase About 12 months back I was signed up to a great little tool called DocSycner which found all the word/excel/powerpoint documents on your PC and simply uploaded them to Google Docs. It was quick and easy and I found it incredibly useful as it allowed me to forget about carrying a memory [...]
Future Homogenisation of Social Networking — Updated 25th Feb
Social networking is a business dominated by trends. There was Bebo, MySpace and now there is Facebook. As Facebook becomes more and more mainstream (as I write it is ranks as the 8th most visited site in the world and its growth is outstripping MySpace ) people are already beginning to wonder what the next [...]
Site Review of the Week
The Internet is abundant with sites that are bad ideas or badly executed and so I thought it was time to throw my oppinion into the mix and review a few of these sites that I think have potential.The first entrant to the list is *drumroll please*… MeOwns (http://www.meowns.com/). Although this site stands for most [...]
Why Apple will rot whilst Microsoft prosper
The recent ‘Steve Jobs health scare’ caused chaos to Apple stock. The seemingly endless list of triumphs for the company, which is performing better than ever before, was deemed irrelevant in comparison to speculation that it’s benevolent leader could be suffering from a second bout of cancer. Many were questioning what relevance Steve’s health had [...]