News

  • Making sense – a multi billion industry 1 image description

    May 14, 2012

    Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft Research estimate that 70 billion hours are spent every year trying to make sense of collected online information. http://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/93447680 Obviously, being …

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  • Slowly but surely image description

    May 10, 2012

    Yes, social search is evolving and improving. Google’s ”Search Plus Your World” is the obvious frontrunner but Facebook is lurking around the corner. A former Google engineer is …

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  • Strictly No ChaCha in UK image description

    April 28, 2012

    The American mobile-focused Q&A site ChaCha has pulled the plug on its UK operations blaming poor take up of their service. The Chicago based company, which had notched …

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  • Mancx gets BootstrapLabs Boost image description

    March 28, 2012

    BootstrapLabs, a Redwood City and San Francisco based business lab and accelerator has announced it’s to add Stockholm-based knowledge market Mancx to the stable of second stage startups …

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Features

  • Print Your Own Clothes? image description

    May 18, 2012

    What does DTP mean to you?  Probably much less than it did 25 years ago.  Back in the late 80s there was an explosion in Desk Top Publishing …

  • Advice, Facts & Opinions image description

    April 28, 2012

    “Let me tell you about women….” There are all sorts of answers out there.  There are those you really need, there are those you’d quite like, and there …

  • Is Quora On the Wane? image description

    April 03, 2012

    In October 1964 Prince Philip was touring Canada when he chanced to remark that: “the Beatles are on the wane.”  The comment caused a furore, there was a …

  • Who can you trust in business? image description

    April 03, 2012

    So you have asked a question online? How do you know if you can trust the answer? Should you trust the Klout Score, the StackOverflow reputation , the …