Google co-founder Sergey Brin, as The New York Post, tells it, is “so rattled by the launch of Microsoft’s rival search engine that he has assembled a team of top engineers to work on urgent upgrades to his Web service.”
I came across this article and image today and it brought a smile to my face: http://bit.ly/EWB9i
Researching some information recently on the net, I came across this article, which was quite useful since this is something we’re actively working on currently.
I think the main point is:
“Social networking is a love-hate relationship. On the one hand managers want their workers to experiment so they can cultivate new-world skills. Employees as brand ambassadors! Products virally transformed into overnight hits!
On the other hand, bosses are filled with foreboding about social networking’s dark side—losing secrets to rivals, the corporate embarrassment of errant employee tweets, becoming the latest victim of a venomous crowd.”
If your employees are actively using Social Media to start work-related discussions, you must have a Social Media Strategy in place to safeguard both the reputation company and the obligations of the employee.
The UK’s most widely used Project Management methodology and framework; PRINCE2, is getting an update for 2009.
The name will remain the same but there are some clear enhancements and changes to the method.
PRINCE2 has previously gone through two major changes – in 2002 and 2005. The new changes are based around creating a simpler and clearer model that, evidence has shown, will contribute to the delivery of successful projects.
The new 2009 PRINCE2 will provide a more streamlined, simpler and more customisable method to be applied to projects. Clear clarification on roles and responsibilities is enforced and the language of the new methodology is easier to understand, ensuring project managers have a better set of tools with which to deliver projects on time, within budget and to the correct quality criteria.
I’m a massive fan of Netvibes (and have been for what seems donkeys ages), I think they were the original platform to create a personalised landing page for users to integrate all their news, information and feeds (please correct me if I’m wrong!).
Their latest upgrade is to add Multiple Personalised Pages (MPPs). This basically means that you can have an unlimited amount of tabs categorised into an unlimited amount of pages, ensuring that all your content can be managed and structured into any logical format that you want!
This, I believe, is a great step forward for the progression of Netvibes as the limitations in one page with many tabs has always been a frustration for me and many others. You can set up your personal page, your “social” page, your business page – anything you want – and manage a range of content, widgets, feeds etc. in a fast and super efficient manner.
It is also a massive boost for Enterprise clients (and branded microsites such as The Daily Influence by Ogilvy) who can now structure masses of data into a page for each area of the business e.g. IT, Marketing, Digital, HR, Finance…the possibilities go on.
The only issue now is that, at this point in time – 20:56 on 27th May 09, the Netvibes server is running amazingly slow! I guess this is down to all the Netvibes users trying out the new feature and creating millions of extra pages!
I’ll have to wait a few days to set up all my tabs into their new pages.
Thanks,
Tony
YouTube have recently pushed this crazy statistic out of the door: 20 hours of video footage is uploaded to YouTube every 60 seconds.
In fact, just in the time it took me to write up this article, 40 hours of rubbish video was added to the site…
Interestingly, this news comes only a few months after it was discovered that in the United States, more searches are made on YouTube than on the whole of Yahoo.
Don’t get me wrong – there is a lot of funny and good video on YouTube, but I think the majority of it is complete garbage and should be removed as quickly as it can be uploaded!
Despite the current economic conditions, online spending in Australia is set to increase by 12 percent in 2009. Research recently conducted by Celsius Research, on behalf of Shopping.com, found Australian shoppers spent an average of $1,097 buying products online in 2008, with the forecast for 2009 set to defy the offline recessionary trends.
The Celsius Research showed 54% of those surveyed value the ease of their shopping experience on their chosen site, followed closely by price. Comparison shopping sites – which feature offers from a large selection of retailers – have also proven popular because they do the hard work for you making the shopping experience more efficient and enjoyable.
Following my article about Anti-Social Networking, I came across this new story about Facebook coming under pressure to take a stand on groups that want to air distasteful and controversal views.
Whatever your views are on this, it is certainly a challenging debate that will rage on.
Have a read and let me know what you think…
Facebook’s Holocaust Controversy
Thanks,
Tony
The new Ministry of Sound website
A good friend of mine worked on this project and I think it deserves some serious merit.
Following the collapse of their previous service provider; Trinity Street, MOS set up an internal team to build and manage their own platform. The amazing point to all this is that they have everything up and running in 6 weeks – a great achievement considering it’s an eCommerce engine with blogs, editorial content and a much improved design!
Well done to all those who were involved.
In researching the Social Network arena for some new projects we’re looking at getting into, I came across two interesting articles about how staggeringly enormous Facebook (and other social sites) have become.
The first article was published on ClickZ and goes into detail on how many and who is using Facebook:
Mind-Blowing Facebook Stats and What To Do With Them
The second article was published on TechCrunch and covers the top runners and riders in the photo-sharing service – again some jaw-dropping figures when you think about it:
Who Has The Most Photos Of Them All? Hint: It Is Not Facebook
Tony Burke is a Program & Project Manager for IT and web business applications.
He's particularly interested in the latest online trends and technologies, project management methodologies and providing the best service possible for his company and clients.
He's also a bit of a geek and footballer.