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OpenOffice 3.0 Beta launched

Posted on May 8, 2008 by

OpenOffice, the free opensource office suite, released OpenOffice 3.0 Beta yesterday. This latest release now runs on Mac OS X without requiring X11 to be running as well. And there are versions for Windows and Linux obviously. There are a … Continue reading →

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Enterprise wikis reviewed update

Posted on April 17, 2008 by

Things move fast in the Web 2.0 world! Only a couple of weeks back I wrote a review of Enterprise Wiki software in which I mentioned PBWiki and Socialtext amongst others. I like Socialtext and would have recommended it had … Continue reading →

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iPhone and iPod Touch leading to huge increase in mobile web browsing

Posted on February 15, 2008 by

Two stories being reported today point to how Apple got it right with the iPhone/iPod Touch. In the first story, coming out of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, EE Times is reporting that: A blue-ribbon panel of human behavior … Continue reading →

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OpenSocial signs up MySpace and SixApart too!

Posted on November 2, 2007 by

I mentioned earlier in the week that Google was about to launch OpenSocial, a Social Network API platform. Since then Mike Arrington in TechCrunch is reporting that not only is it happenning but MySpace, Bebo and SixApart are on board … Continue reading →

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Microsoft buys 1.6% of FaceBook for $240m

Posted on October 25, 2007 by

The New York Times is reporting this morning that Microsoft has bought a 1.6% stake in Facebook for $240m, this values the company at $15bn. This values Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s 23 year old founder at $3bn and Accel Partners, the … Continue reading →

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A sad day for Internet freedoms in China

Posted on October 18, 2007 by

If this were any other country you wouldn’t believe it but the Great Firewall of China has started re-directing traffic from the three major search engines (Yahoo!, Live.com and Google) to the Chinese owned search engine Baidu.com! Other sites such … Continue reading →

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First Gphones shipping?

Posted on October 17, 2007 by

Rumour has it that the first 50,000 Gphones will ship from Taiwanese handset-maker HTC‘s manufacturing facility before the end of the year. While 50,000 may seem like a modest number, “These initial phones are not going to be for sale,” … Continue reading →

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Google launch video ads (kinda)

Posted on October 10, 2007 by

Good friend Marshall Kirkpatrick broke the news yesterday that Google were going to start offering video ads to people publishing ads using Google’s Adsense program. I use Adsense to publish the few ads that are on this site. The official … Continue reading →

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Congrats to the guys in Jaiku

Posted on October 10, 2007 by

I see Jaiku were bought by Google yesterday. What is Jaiku? Jaiku is what Twitter would be if it worked reliably and had neat functionality. I’m delighted for them. If you don’t currently have a Jaiku account then you may … Continue reading →

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WordPress 2.3 upgrade breaks RSS feed

Posted on September 27, 2007 by

Sean McNamara alerted me via the comments on this blog that my RSS feed was broken (thanks a million Sean). I sorted that out this morning so it should be good again and Google Reader is certainly having no problem … Continue reading →

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