Please stop here for a Web 2.0 reality check.

It’s looked increasingly unlikely for a while now that anyone would be able to usurp Facebook as civilisation’s de-facto standard social networking tool, but I’m prepared to say that Facebook has now won. Game Over. Pack up your bags and go home. This show’s over. On the weekend, I went to a family barbeque and I [...]

As a long-time Gmail user I’ve been overjoyed at some of the additions that Google have added to the Gmail platform via the Labs features. Being able to add widgets to my Gmail sidebars has been wonderful - it’s particularly nice to be able to see my calendar from within the mail environment. However, I can’t believe [...]

So I’ve just flown back from San Francisco after we spent all last week participating in the TechCrunch50 Demopit, where we basically launched the Influencing brand and talking about our platform for the first time outside of its MediaConnect context. Thought I’d take the time to punch out a few observations and suggestions before I crash [...]

My excitement over Chrome was tempered some what from this blog post from Hank Williams noting that pretty much whatever market share a browser like Chrome gets, we still have the situation where IE6 has a 25 per cent market share. IE6 is quite frankly the bane of my existence. Most of the issues we have [...]

When we started redeveloping the MediaConnect platform about two years ago, we took a massive gamble. We had started adding a lot of application-style functionality to our site, which for the most part had previously been a typical media-style website. At that stage AJAX and Javascript was really starting to emerge as a far more powerful [...]

Had to hack a chuckle at a couple of the YouTube videos that Google’s Apps team have posted recently on their Official YouTube channel. The videos are very ‘The Office’-like (oh, the irony?) and feature IT Manager Dan Wilson and the challenges he faces maintaining on-premise software like patch maintainance and security. Interestingly from a marketing perspective [...]

I’ve always been very bullish on the idea of modular web-services. It’s sound logical, desn’t it? Why reinvent the wheel when you can leverage what somebody has already built. To a certain degree, it’s working. Widgets are getting increasingly popular and there are some raving success stories for mashups like Google Maps. However, plugging in someone [...]

I just received in my inbox this mail from Google, admitting they had not met their SLA agreement in August and would be crediting our account with a 15-day service. They would also be creating a dashboard so users can better get status information on the health of their system. We’re committed to making Google Apps [...]

Earlier this week I spoke on a panel session held by AIMIA on the topic of online PR and one of the questions asked related to Open Social as a social platform. Co-incidently, earlier I’d been discussing a similiar topic with co-panelist Michael Henderson and our moderator Steven Noble regarding where social platforms were headed. [...]

Google Docs unveiled a much nicer version of its form builder and semi-detached it from spreadsheets. I believe a Form Builder to be one of the most important applications in any online productivity suite. On a desktop you’re adding your own data but when you go online you’re going to want to allow others to add [...]