games
Beautiful summary: > Google News US has launched collectable badges for reading news stories [http://googlenewsblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/shareable-google-news-badges-for-your.html] . This is stupid. Mary has provided plenty of more detailed reasons why it’s stupid [http://maryhamilton.co.uk/2011/08/google-news-doing-gamification-wrong/], too. Another example of Google jumping
Google+ app arrives on the iPhone.
google+
Like all social networks, the people you connect with change the experience.
Recanting my position on Google+ - it does loom promising.
Google has launched a new social network - and it doesn't look promising.
apple
Liveblogged notes from a talk by Tim Wu about the book The Rise and Fall or Information Empires, given at the RSA, London
antony mayfield
Antony Mayfield succinctly captures what I’ve been feeling about people’s attitude to the internet over the last year or so: > The other problem we have is we fixate on platforms, like Facebook, Google or Twitter and use them as proxies for the complexity of the web. It
Android
It’s the now [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2009/12/le_web_marissa_mayer_of_google.html] annual [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2008/12/le_web_08_marissa_mayer.html] Arrington/Mayer chat. Whoohoo. She tries to say nothing, Mike tries to make her say something. Of course,
BBC
From his column in The Telegraph [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/borisjohnson/8116584/So-journalists-at-the-BBC-went-on-strike-Thats-news-to-me.html] **, in which he explains why he barely noticed the BBC journalists’ strike: > I consume vast quantities of news – but almost entirely without the assistance of the BBC. I get up early and
business models
[](https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2010/10/guyclapperton.jpg) [Guy Clapperton](http://homepage.mac.com/guyclapperton/Personalpage), author of [This is Social Media: Tweet, Blog, Link and Post
data
(Live-blogging – prone to error, omission and typos…) Rufus Pollock from Open Knowledge Foundation Wouldn’t it be nice to know where our money goes when we pay taxes? You need lots of stuff – government spending (local and regional), region codes, company data… Much of it locked up or in difficult
So. Google Instant Search. My instant reaction was “gimmick”. After a bit of a play reached I reached the dizzy heights of “entertaining gimmick”. This [post by Steve Rubel](http://www.steverubel.com/google-instant-makes-seo-irrelevant) has me thinking, though:> Here’s what this means: no two people will see the