Blog - June/2009

Are we Seeing a Tech Bubble?

Zuckerberg Facebook stocks

With only days before Facebook goes public as a company with a valuation of $100 billion US, I can't help think of another promising social media platform which helped change the way we communicated with each other, MySpace.

At the height of it's social influence MySpace was bought for $580 million US and then sold for $35 million US 6...

With the Iranian Crisis Have Social Media Now Reached The Grown-up Age?

On Monday 15th June I was watching the evening news on TV showing a peaceful demonstration against the elections’ results in Iran. However peaceful, this demonstration flared up in panic and anger when police forces started to shoot in the crowd,...

Posted 2 years 10 months ago by Anne

News
Social Media
Twitter

Got A Hunch?

Recently I’ve been looking around at the different search engines on the internet hoping and believing that there was more to search than the big three of Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. Having looked at the very serious Wolfram Alpha a little while...

Posted 2 years 11 months ago by Sarah

Search Engines

Introducing Duck Duck Go

Duck Duck Go may have gone under the radar since its launch in September 2008 but it is in fact an internet search engine that has had some positive feedback from its users. I thought I would take a look at this new search engine, if only to give my...

Posted 2 years 11 months ago by Sarah

Search Engines

Facebook Looking East for Investment

After having their value underestimated by investment firms in the US, Facebook has looked to Russia for its latest investment opportunity. They have arranged a $200 million investment from Russian holding company Digital Sky Technologies. Where...

Posted 2 years 11 months ago by Sarah

Social Media

Twitter Offers Verified Accounts

Twitter has decided to offer verified accounts after experiencing problems with the supposed account of well known baseball manager Tony La Russa in the United States. Worried about users impersonating people on Twitter the service will start...

Posted 2 years 11 months ago by Sarah

Twitter

Twitter Stats Provide Interesting Reading

Some interesting new statistics regarding Twitter have emerged from The Harvard School of Business. Taking the results of 300,000 randomly selected Twitter users, it looked into how people were using the service and how it compares to social...

Posted 2 years 11 months ago by Sarah

Social Media
Twitter
Twitter related

Google Goes Squared

Days after revealing their plans for Google Wave the people at Google have unveiled their latest internet search tool, Google Squared. The aim of Google Squared is to provide all the answers you need for a search query that may have lots of...

Posted 2 years 11 months ago by Sarah

Google
Search Engines

Is Microsoft's Bing a Google Killer?

Recently we have had Wolfram Alpha offering a comprehensive "computational” knowledge engine and Google Squared promising a simple way of pulling organised data from websites into a spreadsheet style format. Now last week we have seen Microsoft’s...

Posted 2 years 11 months ago by Sarah

BING
Google
Industry News
Microsoft

Google Rides In On A New Wave

Google has unveiled its latest attempt to revolutionise the way people will use the internet for communication, Google Wave. Touted as a complete tool for how people communicate and collaborate on the web, Google see Wave as being able to bring...

Posted 2 years 11 months ago by Sarah

Google

Microsofts New Search Engine is Named

So Bing it is, not Kumo, Hook or even Sift. Microsoft’s new search engine will be called Bing, whether that is after the “Friends” character Chandler Bing or the noise you hear on cartoons when someone has an idea is up to you. Microsoft claims...

Posted 2 years 11 months ago by Sarah

BING
Search Engines

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