Tag Archives: Google
Irish Government asked Google to remove data
The Irish Government has made about 10 requests for the removal of data from Google and YouTube servers according to details released by the search giant. In an update to the company’s own website Google detailed the number of requests it has received from governments for the removal of information from data stored on its [...]
A Pulitzer for Waving
At the start of this month the Seattle Times was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News for its coverage of the killing of four police officers in Lakewood, Seattle. In a truly collaborative Web 2.0 ethos the award was presented not to one journalist but to the staff of the Seattle Times. The awarding [...]
Viruses attacking Irish Websites
Irish websites are being attacked by a series of sophisticated viruses, the website hosting company Digiweb warned today. The company has advised customers, whom it believes have been attacked, that their website passwords have been compromised. In an email sent to customers who have been attacked the company said, “As part of an ongoing investigation, [...]
Browser Wars
There was a marked decline in the use of Internet Explorer in 2009 according to the web monitoring company AT Institute. Use of the browser fell by 7.8% in the six months to December. Firefox also saw a slight decrease of about 1% in the same period. Chrome and Safari were the main beneficiaries with [...]
Google Analytics
Websites that use Google’s ‘Analytics’ technology may be breaking the law, according to several German data protection authorities. Federal and regional data protection officials have raised concerns about the amount of personal information Google Analytics collects on each user without their knowledge or consent. Any website that uses the technology may be breaching the user’s [...]
Google Waving not Drowning
What would email look like if we set out to invent it today Wave and Drowning They claim it will revolutionise personal communication, they say it will change how we arrange our lives but Wave, Google’s latest web app, mightn’t be as ground-breaking as Google say. Getting a Google Wave account is a difficult thing. [...]
Mashing my Thesis
“by 2010…(Mashups) will be the dominant model (80%) for the creation of new enterprise applications ” (Rust 2008) A few people have been asking me about my Multimedia Undergrad thesis so I thought I’d just take a few minutes to go over what we did. Mashup For my thesis myself and a few friends set [...]
No, Teens Don’t Tweet but it doesn’t mean they’re not involved.
Neilsen Wire, the media and marketing information company, set the twitosphere alight this week when it announced that Twitter, despite is impressive growth, has failed to attract Teens. The Neilsen survey of 250,000 Internet users in the States showed that only 16% of under 25 year olds actively use the Twitter website; with the majority [...]
The Digital Divide Redefined
It seems like such a simple question-What is a browser? I was surprised and shocked to watch this video by the good people at The Next Web in which they ask regular punters on if they know what the difference is between a browser and a search engine. 92 percent of people didn’t.
Search isn’t hard to find
With Microsoft and Twitter launching new search engines later this year should Google, the worlds largest search engine, be worried? Probably…and they know it. Speaking at the Zeitgeist Europe 2009 Conference Google co-founder, Larry Page, acknowledged his company’s new competition “people really want to surf [in] real time and they [twitter] have done a really [...]
