When I have Internet Explorer open, I use their embedded Search box to quickly find what I’m after. Before I even finish typing, it’s often interesting to see what the search engines predict I’m searching for. It’s quite an innovation to provide new web searchers with insights of what previous searchers were looking for. Well, […]
Tag: web
More than a Facebook status
I was at a meeting recently where someone asked the dozen attendees how many used Twitter. Only my friend and I raised our hands. The lady shared she was at a loss why people tweet. In her words, it’s no different to Facebook status updates, only less. It made me think back a little over […]
New media is more of the same
I found the following article from The Economist interesting. The End of Mass Media: Coming Full Circle, http://www.economist.com/node/18904158 It describes the current emphasis on social media as not being new. We tend to think the connected have evolved for the better on account of the advances and innovative paradigms of web 2.0 technologies. If we […]
Google suggestions
Prolific Tweeter @Stephen Fry tweeted a link to the Google Blacklist. It’s supposedly a list of words where Google does not suggest the rest of the search in order to avoid offending anybody. It relates to Google Instant which works by anticipating your search as you type each letter and giving the remainder of potential phrases to you […]
The lucrative Australian accent
The majority of web advertisements are boring. But every now and again one captures my interest – usually for the wrong reasons. This happened just now, when I was enlightened about a programme to learn how to speak with an Australian accent to help with job prospects. Being an Australian myself, perhaps I could pick […]
The internet is making us dumb
I’ve heard people claiming that with the internet we’re growing dumb by having such a plethora of information at our finger tips. I never bought much into the argument, but maybe it does have some merit, particularly when the information that is closest to our finger tips is wrong. I’m delivering a presentation today to […]
Proving I’m human
I have recently subscribed to Twitter – @rbrink77. I believe I’ve embraced web 2.0 and social networking for a few years now, but Twitter has never appealed to me. But I should try before I refuse to buy. I guess not having a Blackberry or sophisticated mobile phone puts me at a slight disadvantage. In […]
Black and Gold Ball – 22 April 2010
Elle & I, and a few tables of friends attended this year’s Black and Gold Ball held at the Grand Hyatt. It’s an important Dubai institution around ANZAC day for particularly all expats that hail from Australia and New Zealand. Our mob demonstrated the laziness of Australians and Kiwis when I think back to how […]
Bengali Matrimony.com
With such a large Indian presence in Dubai, a lot of the online news for the area have links to Indian ads. One that got my attention this morning was the Bengali Matrimony web site, http://www.bengalimatrimony.com/ It’s mostly the same as what (I assume) you’d expect on an online dating site back home. It has […]
Journalistic integrity
Yet another one. Student’s Wikipedia hoax quote used worldwide in newspaper obituaries – The Irish Times – Wed, May 06, 2009 A WIKIPEDIA hoax by a 22-year-old Dublin student resulted in a fake quote being published in newspaper obituaries around the world. (19/06/2017 Addendum: It’s interesting to see these kind of posts, clearly […]