The leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales has warned about the degradation of friendships due to the extensive use of social networking services. Usually I’d disregard this sort of thing as crank material, but he has a point. (more…)

I used to be extremely hesitant to click links generated by URL shortening services, but with the advent of Twitter, I dropped the paranoia level a bit. Probably not a good idea. (more…)

What is the price of success? Be it online or any career? What is success anyway? I originally wrote this post after the tragic death of Australian born actor Heath Ledger last year, but the passing of Michael Jackson brought these questions to mind again recently and how they relate to the online world. (more…)

Microsoft’s new search engine, aka “decision engine” or “results engine” as they now like to call it, is turning out to be an interesting beast. (more…)

Where Rupert leads, others often follow. Mr Murdoch’s plans to have Internet users pay for premium online newspaper content among his brands have set others considering the same. (more…)

Apologies to Monty Python fans. Microsoft is revving up the spin machine for it’s new search engine, called Bing. (more…)

Google is the world’s first $100 billion brand and number one brand for the third year running. (more…)

The free web hosting service Geocities has been around for what seems forever and it practically has in terms of Internet history - but it won’t be for much longer. (more…)

Yahoo’s profit has dropped 78% compared to the same period a year earlier; and the axe is about to be swung among its ranks again. (more…)

The old saying goes the pen is mightier than the sword, but in the online world, a video camera is probably the more modern equivalent. The recent Dominos incident is another good example of why we need to closely monitor our online reputations. (more…)