I just came across this great moving infographic stacked with internet facts…

JESS3 designed and animated this for the JESS3 lecture at AIGA Baltimore in Feb 2010.

We all know and love our own favourite desktop photo editing & image manipulation software, for me it has to be photoshop. Now we are in the cloud there are other on-line versions when you just want a quick fix, gimp is a great example. Google is now expanding and taking a slice of its own – ever heard of a company called Picnik? Well like a few others out there it is a on-line photo editing site. In their own words…

Dual branding is on the up as clients get less precious about intellectual property and start to enjoy the cost benefits, says Angus Montgomery …
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You may have been waiting for this news for a while. Seems only likely that one day Google would go social. Some would argue that they already have with the advent of Google wave and other frankenstein’s coming out of the Google labs. But here is Google Buzz!  But does it have the power to take on the other giants such as Facebook and Twitter?

Take a look for yourself:  http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article7021156.ece
Or for an alternative view Check out this post from the business insider:
The Truth About Google Buzz: It’s Late, Boring, And …

I was very privileged this week to be invited along to a talk by Dr Kieron O’Hara at the British Computer Society and I would like to share my interpretation, synopsis and thoughts on the talk . Dr Kieron O’Hara is a senior research fellow in Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, and a research fellow of the Web Science Research Initiative, currently on the LiveMemories project. He is the author of nine books and has also written extensively on British politics and political theory, and is a research fellow for …

I am very excited today as I have luckily been given a “golden ticket” to  Google Wave to try it out. If you are still one of the many people out there scratching your head and saying “what the hell is Google Wave?” then read on for the google gumph…

I’ve just been reading a good article on advertising in Social Media environments by eConsultancy.
“A survey conducted by Knowledge Networks throws the consensus into question. It found that less than 5% of social media participants aged 13 to 54 “regularly turn to these sites for guidance on purchase decisions“.”
The full article: Social media doesn’t drive purchasing decisions: report