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Far be it for me, a Brit, to comment on US Politics (we have enough of our own thank you), but this recent report sort of encapsulates how around 50% of the US feels.'Palin Brushing Up On Foreign ...

Things deteriorate over time if you don't do maintenance - even software. One item that needs upkeep is your online identity. Many of us go onto sites -- social networking or otherwise -- and type ...

This week I have decided to pen a few blog entries focussed around the future of collaboration. However before looking to the future it is worth considering a little of life before collaborative ...

Technology has never been a glamour business, attracting few women and recently, less young men. However, advertising is and has always been full of both. There's now a hybrid world - on-line ...

Collaboration technology was on show this week at the Project and Programme Management exhibition in London. It was good to see that the PM world now includes more risk analysis and benefit ...

'Aren't your policeman wonderful', this is a common refrain from tourists to the UK who find out that you can ask a Bobby for directions without being shot. The above may be true, however the ...

Marks and Spencer knows how to deliver a compelling message, millions of waistbands across Europe will testify to its effectiveness, however its laptops are as compelling as its food and clothing ...

Yesterday I read on the BBC Website that Ray Davies is hoping a reunion of The Kinks may happen sometime soon. Apart from my favourite track, Waterloo Sunset which is one of the best ever songs ...

I wish IBM was in charge of running Formula 1, if it was then Lewis Hamilton would probably be many points ahead of where he is today and heading for motor racing glory.Following ...

Oracle are at it again, over a number of years they have tried to become a 'player' in the messaging / collaboration market. Yesterday they announced Beehive, their latest attempt to get a piece of ...

Glocal is a term not only used as a marketing mantra but is also an in-joke among mathematicians (used where the global structure of an object can be inferred from the local structure). So ...

So a Yahoo mail account has been hacked, well they are only one or two belonging to the Governor of a US State, potentially the next Vice-President and therefore only a vote / heartbeat away from ...

There's nothing worse than unplanned events overtaking a well-planned conference. In Mumbai, last Tuesday a CTO summit was held to look into the effective implementation of core banking technology. ...

Thursday saw the updating of the Twitter UI and some its technology. At a time when Facebook is starting to look like an 'accident in a paint factory', the denizens of Twitter are producing a UI ...

Or to paraphrase Edward Grey. "The pools are going cold all over Europe." I was fortunate enough to grow up with a swimming pool. It was unheated. It means I can swim in glacial rivers, oceans and ...

Is the Web 2.0 bubble about to burst? An American who lives in the Valley seems to thinks so. All the signs of a looming Web recession are everywhere, he said yesterday, including the US mortgage ...

Information arrives at unexpected times. Yesterday, at London's venerable Church House, was the first day of the UK Lotus User Group (UKLUG). With an attendance of around 250 (up about 150% from ...

Déja vu - where have I seen that before? - Yes, we all get that feeling from time to time and over the last few days my sense of the seeing the past becoming the future is with Facebook. Those of ...

Ian has expressed the view that collaboration might have helped in the current financial crisis. However, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing and, contra wise, knowledge is power -- with ...

'If a first you don't succeed try, try, try again' could be the corporate motto of International Business Machines. For (I think) the third time IBM is making a determined push to attack the Domino ...

Having made the case against collaboration yesterday it seems a bit churlish not to look at what effective collaboration could have done to mitigate the large pile of poo that the banking system ...

The UK Lotus User Group 2008 conference is on tomorrow and Friday (18th-19th September) UKLUG is a great opportunity for people who use Lotus software meet each other, find out what's happening ...

To describe recent events as a disaster would be an understatement, whether for investors, employees or the general public the collateral damage from the past week-ends events will be the subject ...

I play in a 'covers band' called Senior Service. We've just come back from a gig at weekend party for a toff bird's 21st. The morning after the night before I walked around the stage clearing up ...

I like Facebook but it feels rather transient. I received an invite over the weekend from a distant cousin (5th and god alone know how many times removed) to a Genealogical website Geni.com.I knew ...

I decided to 'pop in' to the Register last night to check out was was sharpening the knives of that particular bunch of scribblers. The headline story linked back to the embarrassing collapse of of ...

Jim Balsillie presented the 'Blackberry Lifestlye" at a recent conference as reported by CIO.com, his comments gave me some food for thought.The RIM vision of a fully convergent mobile device might ...

I really did not 'get' the first Gates - Seinfeld ad that ran recently but the second one does hit the spot. I am starting to see where this is going and I think it will be interesting.You can take ...

In an interesting coda to yesterday's blog 'the Benefits of lock-in" I have noticed today that Facebook is imposing its new layout on 100,000,000 users. Of course this has caused howls of protest ...

"Preparing for the next downturn," was the title of a McKinsey report, published last year, I had archived it as possible content for this blog. Realsing it was now passé I deleted it, though not ...