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BP Oil Spill – A Seriously Comical Way To Grasp This Disaster

25 June 2010 ECO

The BP Oil spill has reached unbelievable major proportions and is effecting peoples lives in a disastrous way, not to mention the environmental impact this is having. Lots of people round the world have their eyes focused on what BP is doing to try (or not trying to do) to fix this disaster. To really [...]

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Google services blocked in 25 countries

21 April 2010 Analysis

By Dan Worth Highlights growing censorship. Google has revealed a global trend of internet censorship by admitting that many of its products, such as search, Docs, Blogger and YouTube, are blocked in 25 of the 100 countries where it operates. Rachel Whetstone, Google’s vice president for global communications and public affairs, said in a blog [...]

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How To Measure Online Brand Popularity

12 March 2010 Advice

Online Brand Popularity .. How to measure it! The deeper information technologies penetrate our lives, the more powerfully you and your customers can use them for decision making. All we need to make the best available choice is reliable information – from eyewitnesses, first-hand users, reviewers, and experts. Search engines and news feeds give you [...]

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Keyword Search Engines Stats Are In – Google? Yahoo? Who Wins?

10 February 2010 Advice

Keyword and Search Engines Statistics All figures are given as percentages and the data is compiled from searches done in the last month from the report date.Current Report: 2009-10-01 Query Size By Country The following table contains the percentage of single vs. multiple word searches in various languages.. It provides a good indication of the [...]

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Top 10 Bad IT Decisions

20 January 2010 Analysis

An Article From http://www.itnews.com.au/ By Shaun Nichols, Iain Thomson Famous head-slap moments from history. In light of the UK government’s ill-thoughtout and wrong-headed decision to support a ‘three strikes and you’re out’ rule for internet service providers we thought we’d take a look at the history of stupid decision making in the IT field. We’ve [...]

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Conroy prepares for wireless spectrum sale

6 January 2010 Analysis

The Gov are at it again trying to spruce up and tighten an already tightly bound competitors market that only a few can play in. Is this a good thing? Warns of costs to broadcasters and consumers. By Ben Grubb Jan 6, 2010 10:53 AM Tags: spectrum | wireless | conroy | minister | federal [...]

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Survey: Social media makes good business, bad workers

1 January 2010 Analysis

By: Andrea Koskey Examiner Staff Writer December 31, 2009 Companies and government agencies are using social networking sites such as Facebook to make announcements and keep in touch with the community. (Courtesy photo) Businesses are increasingly using social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter for marketing purposes, but those same companies don’t want employees [...]

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Why social media works – for now

28 December 2009 Attraction

Social media has one fundamental reason for becoming the online success platform that it has become. Trust. When someone initiates a relationship through LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter, they are accepting that person into a small, known trusted group. If you send me a message via LinkedIn or Facebook, I will read it. When you send [...]

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