Monthly Archives April 2008

Married to a beautiful Brazilian for 1 week & two days

I was just in the queue at the cafe in Swan Alley when I heard some very well spoken guy mention he’d been married for a week and two days. He seemed pretty happy about it, talking to the guy making his sandwich who seemed eager to offer some advice. Anyhow after the well spoken guy [...]

Social Networks Around The World

How is Web 2.0 Changing Your Daily Life? Social networking is the emergent web phenomena of the moment as the recent Morgan Stanley report on internet trends makes clear. What’s much harder is to get to grips with this at a global level, beyond the headline grabbing dominance of Facebook and MySpace. Fortunately An De [...]

Morgan Stanley Report on internet trends

Nice (5MB pdf) Morgan Stanley report on the rise and rise of social networking and mobiles, thanks to Headshift. Wow, how about that for adding value and not just nicking someone’s elses hard work.

Google images search could be worth $200m

Huh, just read on Valleywag why Google doesn’t serve up adverts in image searches. Funny thing is most traffic to my itzy bitzy blog comes via image searches for Kaka material. Imagine that switched on for adverts.

Kaka & Caroline show off the Georgio Armani collection

Pics via the Getty Images site with Caroline and Kaka showing off the 2008/09 Fall and Winter collection. “MILAN, ITALY – FEBRUARY 18: Caroline Celico and Kaka attend the Giorgio Armani fashion show as part of Milan Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2008/09 on February 18, 2008 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Venturelli/WireImage)”

Blogs and corporate communications

Great example of how blogs can effect corporate reputation of GE within the US$100bn medical imaging market from US radiologist blogger Doctor Dalai. I was aware of this story when it happend, and was in communication with both parties, so it’s been very instructive for me too..

Camp Robin Hood gets hit by the snow

Just heard that Camp Robin Hood in New Hampshire where I worked in the kitchens back in 1986 has been hit by the snow so bad it demolished the dinnign hall. Of course for those of us who worked in the kitchens the fact it was on a different level, with a nice wlak up [...]

AccMan gets serious

Hmm, interesting thoughts on idealism around web 2.0 and the reality in the enterprise from AccMan’s blog. I have my own strategy for dealing with this conundrum which I’ve been developing since 1999..

Enterprise 2.0, is it what you expected?

ZDNet’s Larry Dignan with Jason Perlow: “That chart is basically the opposite of what I would have expected. Enterprise 2.0 (all resources) should appeal more to small to medium sized businesses as it may lower implementation costs and provide other productivity enhancements. Instead more than half of these smaller businesses aren’t even considering enterprise 2.0 apps while the giants are diving in head first.” Er, really, its exactly what I expected..

Michael Moore 4 Obama

Film-maker Moore endorses Obama (oh, god) Yes, I can now see the funny side of the 2008 US Election, thanks to MM.