Google has made a subtle but important change to the way it offers users ‘Search’. Here is the BBC’s brief summary:
Google is overhauling its search system so it returns “universal” results not just those from webpages. The change means users will also get results from news sites, blogs, video services and other relevant places…….. The expanded results will be available via a series of tabs that will appear on the results page.
There is a lot more detail … Keep Reading
Rupert Murdoch has announced that News Corporation will be carbon neutral by 2010. You may be tempted to think of this as a corporate gesture, a gimmick without much substance, but take a look at their Energy Initiative Webcast.
Rupert Murdoch and his senior executives are interviewed in the webcast (Peter Chernin, James Murdoch, Rebekkah Wade, and a dozen others) and they are committed to transforming the way the company does business. Murdoch himself is clearly on message. As … Keep Reading
Yesterday was a free day for me. But with a Blackberry you are never totally on holiday. Two work items piqued my interest.
Sad news for Tom Moloney, CEO of EMAP. He has left the company and the speculation is that it may be snapped up by a private equity company.
Another tiny item from feedback also snagged my interest (yes feedback gets forwarded to our Blackberries and, sad as it may be, I often look at it even … Keep Reading
Tim O’Reilly presents a fertile thought experiment. But it is not just our commercial and financial activities which can be enhanced by web-scaled interaction. How would it help our reading on the web, if the process of reading, to think and to write, was enhanced with intelligent feedback: to the reader, the publisher, the author or journalist?
When, soon, most of our reading (magazines, newspapers, books, blogs, by definition, etc…) is web-based, how will the different reading applications co-ooperate … Keep Reading
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