The sewers of Sheffield and H2O.
H2O Network is installing one it’s super fast fibre networks into the sewers of Sheffield. It will offer broadband speeds up to 100Mbps and is due for completeion by the end of September this year.
The network will be laid in a 15km ring around the city and is similar to existing H2O schemes already operating [...]
Making Facebook Pay. Luring cautious brands to social sites
“Social networks like Facebook and MySpace can be scary places for big marketers.”
“Who knows what kind of vulgar or offensive material resides on their heavily trafficked pages? Fearful of plastering their brand images next to uncontrollable personal content, advertisers have been slow to move big chunks of their marketing budgets to the sites, despite the [...]
New shiny toys
I’m about to jump on the tube across London to the Regent Street Apple store to hopefully purchase a new MacBookPro.
This will replace a venerable G4 Powerbook, currently in Dubai, that has travelled with us around the world several times. Although still perfectly serviceable, it’s time for an upgrade. The new machine will wing it’s [...]
A breakdown of modern web design
It’s our day job.
If we had a humour section on this blog that’s where this would be.
But the underlying message is “Please don’t use Internet Explorer. Especially don’t use IE6.”
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Read moreIs your Facebook data worth pounds, or a few pennies?
Exactly how valuable is the personal data held by Facebook or Linkedin or any number of other websites that collect this date from you when you sign up?
In the current climate of identity theft and hacked accounts who is really honest with this information when asked?
If you’re stopped in the street by a marketer, or [...]
Media players in conference plot survival in the digital age.
The annual Sun Valley conference kicks off on July 7th and high on the agenda is “How to survive the global recession and shrinking advertising sales.
Regular attendees include Rupert Murdoch, Sumner Redstone and Barry Diller. Rumoured to be joining them this year are Mark Zuckerberg, the 25-year-old chief of Facebook, Twitter Chairman Evan Williams, Google [...]
Human error, not spam, brought down Twitter accounts | 6 Jul 2009 | ComputerWeekly.com
Twitter has apologised for accidentally suspending a number of accounts yesterday due to “human error”.
“Earlier today, we accidentally suspended a number of accounts. We regret the human error that led to these mistaken suspensions,” Twitter said in a blog posting.
Human error, not spam, brought down Twitter accounts | 6 Jul 2009 | ComputerWeekly.com
Using Social Networks to warn of natural disasters and flood warnings
Australia is looking at using Social Networking sites like Facebook and Twitter to give people an early warning of Bushfires.
Residents of towns in Victoria said they had little or no warning of the disaster in February this year in which 173 people lost their lives.
The use of as many means of communication as possible to [...]
Facebook. How private are your details?
It’s reported today that details of the private life of Sir John Sawers and his family have been removed from Facebook at the request of the British Government.
Sir John Sawers takes up the post of head of MI6 in November, and is currently the UK’s ambassador to the United Nations.
His wife had put their family [...]
“CompuServe: Get On with It.” Compuserve Classic goes dark.
I well remember my first connection to the internet. From a North London office on a state of the art IBM PC with Windows 3.1, I loaded up the Compuserve software from floppy disc, selected the closest dial up node from the list and hit dial. The fax modem screeched into action and I was [...]
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