Eric Schmidt & Jonathan Rosenberg have been touring the world talking about ‘How Google Works’. Eric is the former CEO of Google, and current ‘Executive Chairman’, Jonathan is the former SVP of Products at Google. Much of the talk was a condensed version of their book “How Google Works”, but there were a few extras in …
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I carry a camera around most of the time, which means I often get asked what kind of photos I take. This page exists mostly to answer that question. Do read the captions for context, do feel free to contact me if you have any questions. A man takes his grandaughter for a walk around …
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Here is a very short post about an enormous Twitter Gaffe, along with a short set of suggestions for minimising the risks of this occurring. The Gaffe During a period when over a million people were marching in Paris, following a series of terrorist attacks, a woman on Twitter hit the ‘Tweet’ button & published …
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The latest series of ‘The Apprentice’ just came to an end in the UK and, if you were among those following, you’ll know the winner was a man called Mark Wright, who gained a £250,000 investment (roughly $400k for any Americans reading), to spend launching a Digital Marketing Agency. Not an original idea, but sensible nonetheless: Digital …
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Four of the UK’s largest broadcasters have announced plans for a series of leadership debates prior to the next general election. The BBC, ITV, Sky and Channel 4 plan to hold 3 debates: One with the Conservative & Labour parties. One with those parties plus the Liberal Democrats. One with Conservative, Labour, Lib Dem, and UKIP. Their …
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In 2012, “the cookie law” was implemented in the UK (it was actually a year earlier, but UK organisations were given a year’s grace period). I put in a ‘Freedom of Information’ request to the Information Commissioner’s office to see how they’re currently enforcing the law. Ashley Duffy (Lead Information Access Officer at the ICO) very …
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This site uses cookies. At the time of writing the technology that places those cookies is roughly as follows: Twitter – the site uses a tweet/follow button occasionally, which uses cookies. If you’re logged in to Twitter, this may mean they know you’ve been to particular URLs. Google Analytics – the site uses various pretty …
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Google have been rolling out “Sitelinks Search Boxes” for many sites recently. These have existed for years, but on a very, very limited number of sites, and without any auto-complete functionality. These are useful from a user point of view but – something that has not been spoken about particularly – they also provide a …
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The Scotland referendum question is worded like this: “Should Scotland be an independent country?” As a result, the “Independent Scotland” campaigners are called the “Yes” camp, and those who want the UK to stay together are the “No” camp. I’ve heard it suggested quite a few times that 犀利士 this puts the ‘unionists’ at a fundamental …
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Here are the results of a poll run on a sample of Scottish web users between 7-9 September. The poll reported – when weighted to match the Scottish internet population’s general makeup – a 53.9% ‘Yes’ vote for the question “Should Scotland be an independent country?” The poll results were from 1,000 people in Scotland (for …
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