Innovation – New Ideas
Written on 24 Nov, 2009 at 1:36 in Featured Stories, Innovation | viewed times and users have made 0 comments so far
Separately from my occasional work on Web Coherence, I’m involved with a number of other projects. One of those, that I’ve mentioned before, is VRM – Vendor Relationship Management – led out of the Berkman Centre at Harvard by Doc... (Continue reading)
“News” Aggregation
Written on 18 Oct, 2009 at 20:32 in Featured Stories, Social Networks, Twitter, User Stories | viewed times and users have made 0 comments so far
So we’ve been a bit quiet – something to do with the transition from academia to the real world again, methinks. But that’s over now, at least for me. (Remember – you’re supposed to get involved too.) Anyhow, a recent... (Continue reading)
Is your information correct?
Written on 2 Aug, 2009 at 15:43 in Emails, Featured Stories, Others, Our Experiments, Profiling | viewed times and users have made 0 comments so far
How easy or difficult do you find hunting email addresses, phone numbers or social networking profiles of a person you wish to know about? I know you would Google out their names and look out for maximum amount of information... (Continue reading)
Did you tweet your password?
Written on 31 Jul, 2009 at 21:16 in Featured Stories, Twitter | viewed times and users have made 2 comments so far
“Oh! I just love Twitter.” “Twitter is cool.” “I can write on the move and the message goes out! Isnt that great!” “I confess, I am indeed obsessed.” These are some of the responses I have received from Twitter users... (Continue reading)
A new standard for personal information management
Written on 7 Jul, 2009 at 5:08 in Featured Stories, Web Creatures | viewed times and users have made 0 comments so far
I had lunch the other day with Adriana Lukas of VRM-London fame. One of the topics that came up – I have no idea how – involved receiving emails… Facebook messages… incoming tweets.. … Erm. Incoming ‘information.’ And we got... (Continue reading)
The social smoke cloud
Written on 1 Jul, 2009 at 22:03 in Featured Stories, Social Networks | viewed times and users have made 9 comments so far
Social networking is doing more damage than we can imagine. It is not only a threat on user privacy and is affecting productivity of individuals, but it is also damaging the environment drastically which questions the existence of mankind on this planet. On facebook... (Continue reading)
Gmail Hacked? Here’s how to spot.
Written on 29 Jun, 2009 at 9:49 in Email Best Practices, Emails, Featured Stories | viewed times and users have made 0 comments so far
If you rely on Gmail as much as I do, you probably worry about someone hacking into your Gmail account? Well, among the advanced features on Google’s mailing service there is a cool little trick that you can use to... (Continue reading)
IP shields recession for some…
Written on 23 Jun, 2009 at 22:46 in Featured Stories, Intellectual Property Rights | viewed times and users have made 0 comments so far
When the doldrums of recession are being heard everywhere and businesses have seen a considerable drop in sales and profitability, Intellectual Property Rights have come to rescue of some Internet business players. An anonymous Web Ecologist reports a fellow student being slammed... (Continue reading)
Another thing to watch.
Written on 16 Jun, 2009 at 9:54 in Ambient Intelligence, Featured Stories | viewed times and users have made 0 comments so far
The SANS Internet Storm Center and the Register made an interesting observation today – it seems the new ‘smart’ power meters are less secure than the modern P2P client, and very easy to disrupt. What’s significant about this is not... (Continue reading)
A return – and the Slashdot effect
Written on 26 May, 2009 at 21:19 in Web Creatures | viewed times and users have made 0 comments so far
So it’s been quiet here, pretty much by force. Heeman and I both had massive amounts of studies to attend to, and Ian made sure that we didn’t *think* about writing on Web Coherence. However, it’s time to get back... (Continue reading)
