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On being asked to contribute to the blog I chose a topic to cover. I had a selection of topics to choose from and I thought I’d go for the ‘thing’ I’d not heard of, with a view that it might be something interesting.
So, I’ve opted to write about a site called www.primal.com. For the [...]

Facebook have recently rolled out a new feature to a small set of lucky (?) beta testers – namely, Facebook questions. If you think this sounds like a familiar idea (or if you have used the feature already) you’ll probably be making connections to Yahoo! Answers, the once-innovative question-and-answer “Crowd Source” service. And you’d be [...]

This week saw the 16th conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining held in Washington DC (KDD-2010). “Why would we be interested in such an obscure conference?” you may ask. Well the answer is simple, Google presented their infrastructure behind how they test changes to their user interface, algorithm and methods content presentation.
Google essentially [...]

Back in November 2009 Bing and Wolfram Alpha announced a partnership to include the “computational knowledge engine” results within Bing search results. The logic behind this was to improve Bing’s search offering for direct knowledge queries, for example “how much fat in an egg”, but how successful / useful has this partnership proven to be?
From [...]

Today, there are just 730 days left before the London Olympics starts – but for companies, the online marketing marathon has already begun. The legal controls on the Olympics are fierce but at the same time, they allow honest content to be produced around the competition in a productive way.
And if you do work [...]

Mobile apps on smart phones have come a long way since they were made widely available after the launch of the iPhone in the middle of 2007.

At the beginning of 2010, it was reported that there were over 100,000 iPhone apps available for download.
Below lists three useful iPhone productivity apps that I like:
1. Dragon [...]

My degree was in Graphic Information Design, so I’ve always had a passion for a good information graphic, ever since we studied the ultimate infographic, the London tube map.
So I was particularly pleased when Tanya Goodin put “Information is beautiful” on my desk last year. But ever since we seem to have all gone a [...]

Here is a few tips on how to use Microsoft Outlook more productively, and get the most out of your day(s).
Email:
Remove Invalid E-Mail Addresses from Autocomplete List
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When composing an e-mail, you may have come across a time where you have started entering a name in the “To” field, only to see an invalid or old [...]

Apple CEO Steve Jobs understands disappointment better than most (take a look at his Stanford University Commencement speech ) so I hope he won’t mind me saying that the iPhone 4.0 delivers emotional deflation with exceptional style and timing.
For the avoidance of doubt (and for ‘Sosumi’ legal precision), I will say right now that you would [...]

Cape Town Tamarites were welcomed by a familiar face as we walked into our warm office a couple of weeks ago – Simo Sam was spending the day with us. Simo is a recipient of the Tamar school scholarship and is a proud St. Cyprians girl. This being one of my own rival schools when [...]