» India Photography: Sadhus, Beggars, Gypsies and Others
09/03/10 09:53 from SEO Outsourcing
Narratives of India and Nepal, told through the lens of a digital Nikon, carry with them the seduction of difference; and it is almost impossible to really know India and Nepal unless you stand amidst it. Landscape and portrait photographe..
» Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Apple: Corporate twisty-turny things of value
01/03/10 06:34 from SEO Outsourcing
The murky diktats of the market have seen the four titans of technological social interaction resolve their coagulated visions of common sense into a battlefield. It is here that coalition leaders and party magnates pounce on minimalist tw..
» China's social media stance inflexible, insular and unsustainable
15/02/10 04:36 from SEO Outsourcing
China's data mining activities last month provoked fierce opposition from Google executives. Since then there has been silence, but China's banning of Western social media whilst pursuing its own, is an isolated agenda that is hopelessly f..
» Can Jobs walk on water or is he the god that failed?
01/02/10 10:27 from SEO Outsourcing
Steve Jobs, Apple Inc's visionary CEO, may not be in the same league as Moses, but he has the potential to solve the current media crisis with Apple's most innovative development: the iPad. But is it a Tablet delivered from on high or a d..
» Google squirts water-pistol at China's Great Firewall amidst hypocrisy
18/01/10 06:04 from SEO Outsourcing
With the infiltration of Google customers' email accounts, allegedly from the Chinese authorities in search of information on human rights activists, Google said it would pull out of China. But doesn't Google employ the same data mining su..
» Metamorphosis of a US secretary of energy
14/12/09 12:24 from SEO Outsourcing
An imagined analogy of decline in an exchange between George Monbiot (of The Guardian) and Franz Kafka, on the speech delivered at the Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen by the US energy secretary, Steven Chu, who shows how America's unqu..
» The hitchhikers guide to Copenhagen using Google’s real-time search
08/12/09 11:19 from SEO Outsourcing
Not to be out-manoeuvred by its search rivals, Google has announced its very own “Real Time Search”, which will focus on social, mobile and real time. This is due to be rolled out over their search engines very soon. For a quic..
» The Phoney War: Google and News Corp make up?
03/12/09 10:56 from SEO Outsourcing
The Phoney War, also referred to as the Twilight War by Winston Churchill, was the description given to first few months in World War II following the German invasion of Poland, marked by a lack of military operations in Europe. The same c..
» The web is at war, threatening Web 2.0’s interoperability
30/11/09 07:43 from SEO Outsourcing
It is now becoming apparent that Tim O'Reilly's vision of the web being “One Ring to Rule Them All” and “Small Pieces Loosely Joined”, is coming apart at the seams as the big media company News Corp and Microsoft jo..
» Is the workplace subverting social communications and intimacy?
27/11/09 10:52 from SEO Outsourcing
Last night my friend was again giving me a ticking off for not having looked at his beloved TED website. Today, though, I did. The videos on its home page display an array of interesting subjects, but the one that caught my eye was Stefana..