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How the ‘traditional’ world punishes social networking

March 8th, 2010 · Comments

If you’re familiar with social networking it can be easy to scoff at the latest report of the non-digital native world failing to understand the benefits of the connected world. But sometimes, being ahead of the curve can carry a cost.
A U.S. University Professor was recently suspended because of a Facebook status update on what [...]

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Google Buzz proves problems with single online identities

February 24th, 2010 · Comments

I’m assuming most people have been caught up in the huge amount of discussion around Google Buzz, the new social sharing and conversation tool from Google which surprised a lot of people by suddenly appearing as a full release within Gmail, and again by having some serious privacy problems at launch, which Google has had [...]

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Why I won’t be signing up to Blippy…

February 8th, 2010 · Comments

A fair number of tech luminaries have been writing about Blippy recently – a new service which tracks your on and offline card purchases and shares them with followers. Not surpising with investors including Sequoia Capital, Jason Calacanis and Evan Williams. And Louis Gray has been publishing his experiences with the site.
I’m not averse to [...]

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Tags: social networks

UK Govt – tackling piracy but in court on privacy!

October 31st, 2009 · Comments

Quite funny seeing which stories followed each other on PaidContent this morning – one story is following the response from UK ISPs to Lord Mandelson’s proposal to disconnect illegal filesharers – but that immediately followed that the EC has set a two month deadline to overhaul UK rules on digital privacy.Or the UK Govt will [...]

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Tags: Digital Audio