And yet again Twitter is showing that it is at the forefront of world news. As CNN made it's name during the Kuwaiti war in 1991, so Twitter showed during the terrorist attacks in Mumbai that it is the new 'media' force to be reckoned with. With the awful Turkish Airlines plane crash near Schiphol … [Read more...] about Stop Press! Twitter First With News Again
xRank – The Best Celebrity Search
Microsoft has (finally) come up with a great website. Microsoft's Live search was launched in September 2006 and replaced MSN search. Live has not managed to replace either of the two giants of Web search; Google and Yahoo. In beta testing however is xRank, a demonstration that Microsoft and their … [Read more...] about xRank – The Best Celebrity Search
ShareThis Makes Sharing More Simple
ShareThis, the social bookmarking and sharing service, is making huge headway as one of the market leaders. New ShareThis Widget In the past few days ShareThis has launched a more relevant and user friendly widget (in Beta only for now). The widget is clean, quick and simple to use. I use mixx … [Read more...] about ShareThis Makes Sharing More Simple
Most Popular Sharing Sites
In the past week ShareThis has released data showing their most popular Sharing Services during January 2009. The data are illustrated below in the chart provided by ShareThis. The results are likely an accurate reflection of the various sharing services popularity on the web as a whole as ShareThis … [Read more...] about Most Popular Sharing Sites
Optimise Internet Search with Clusty
Most people use a single search engine for a high proportion of their searches. People occasionally use other search engines when they are unable to find appropriate results using their primary search engine. The most popular search engines are Google, Live and Yahoo. This article recommends that … [Read more...] about Optimise Internet Search with Clusty
A Strategy for Online Website Promotion
Many people believe that attracting visitors to a website is as simple as setting up a few pages and then sitting back whilst vast numbers of visitors come along. This article explains how to get visits through some of the various free promotional mediums e.g. social media and search. Promotion, in … [Read more...] about A Strategy for Online Website Promotion
Add FoaF to Your Web Page
Following on from my previous post 'Friend of a Friend, the Semantic Web and Web 3.0' , it is worth adding how FoaF may easily be integrated into any Web Page (including Blog Posts in Wordpress, Typepad, Drupal or any other platform). One of the challenges of FoaF is it's simple to have many RDF … [Read more...] about Add FoaF to Your Web Page
The Social Media Benefits for Organizations
Although many organizations treat it as such, Social Media (Web 2.0) is not only for non-work activities. Social Media has a huge role to play in enhancing internal organizational effectiveness in the form of heightened Knowledge Management and communications. Below are listed three Social Media … [Read more...] about The Social Media Benefits for Organizations
Sharing Knowledge is Power
This article is not about a philosophical debate as to whether the hypothesis ‘Knowledge is Power’ nor whether the antithesis ‘Power is Knowledge’ are valid. This article is about Knowledge Sharing in organizations and how a belief is evident in many organizations that to control (and restrict) … [Read more...] about Sharing Knowledge is Power