Monthly Archives: December 2006

It begins.. Google and BSkyB join forces

December 7, 2006 – 5:11 pm

Parts of the jigsaw are falling into place now. Today the Financial Times covered the new alliance between Google and BSkyB. Schmidt and Murdoch are on the verge of something very big. Potentially a paradigm shift in broadcasting.
Targetted adverts based upon the programs you’re watching which get recorded by your Sky Plus box. It’s not [...]

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Does Second Life have to become the Matrix?

December 6, 2006 – 1:09 pm

Nicolas Carr has posted a very interesting article which raises the awareness of the amount of electricity that Second Life uses and points out “A Second Life Avatar consumes about the same amount of electricity as an average Brazlian?”.
Maybe if each person who ‘plays’ Second Life actually had their brain hooked up to the [...]

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Ready for a new day

December 5, 2006 – 11:14 pm

Today I attended the Business Leadership in the 21st Century conference hosted by Microsoft and the CBI. It was a grand affair located in the heart of London right next to the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey in the QEII Conference Centre. Everyone was in suits, shirts and ties. No jeans or sneakers anywhere [...]

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Enterprise 2.0 - will it spoil the vibe?

December 4, 2006 – 1:55 pm

For the past month I’ve been whizzing around at a few conferences, travelling quite a bit, building cupboards from IKEA and generally not doing very much blogging. However, that hasn’t stopped me from taking time out to check what’s going on in the world of the Web (and how wide it is!) Web 2.0 [...]

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