A clear stance to encourage people and companies to upgrade their browsers is long overdue and, while many websites and services, big and small, have indicated that they won’t be supporting outdated browsers, specifically Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, for too long, it is only recently that things have begun to move. And with Google leading the way, IE 6 is headed for

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Google just announced that a YouTube Preview feature is now activated on all Gmail accounts. This allows millions of Gmail users to view YouTube-hosted videos in the email itself.
This sounds like the holy grail of video email: full in-mail video and audio without the cost and problems associated with developing email-specific solutions. You would simply segment your list by domain, and could then send all gmail.com addresses your YouTube video. That’s the theory, but how does it work in practice? And can email marketers and their subscribers really benefit?
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Can you create an Avatar of your own, like in the recent film by James Cameron? Well I’m pretty sure you can’t, not in real life anyway. There is another option of course – Second Life.

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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 …

Another great article Posted by Brad Egeland
During the course of our projects, we often run into situations where our customer needs some massaging.  Issues come up, problems arise that are the fault of the delivery team, budget overruns happen, and schedules slip.  Rarely does a project team make it through an entire engagement without the customer being upset – often justifiably so – about something.