In my training sessions on Blogging and Social Media I am often explaining to clients the benefits of RSS and am always surprised to find that many business owners are not aware of how it works or how they can use it. RSS is short for ‘Really Simple Syndication’ and it is basically a standard [...]
This week there have been a couple of things in the news about hackers accessing passwords. First LinkedIn were targeted and then eHarmony and Last.fm suffered a similar fate. Also this week, Mitt Romney was compromised when someone managed to access his Hotmail and Dropbox accounts. The LinkedIn passwords of 6.5 million users were posted online but in [...]
Recently I have been supporting the cause of a student from Sheffield Hallam University who is facing extradition to the USA on charges of Copyright Infringment (you’ve probably seen it in the news). This was for a website which he set up a few years ago, before he started University which enabled users to share [...]
A new directive from the EU on websites which use cookies could have massive consequences for thousands of businesses due to lack of awareness of the law and the resulting fines. The EU Privacy Directive relating to this was first introduced in May 2011 and at the time it was argued that businesses in EU [...]
Most people became aware of the SOPA and PIPA debate earlier this week when jessicazeun.com and many other websites went dark or displayed an alternative page for 24 hours in an attempt to draw attention to the issue. The most prominent site to do this was Wikipedia raising a cry from students all over the [...]
For a while now I have been using the online influence ratings site Klout. For those who have not heard of this before it basically uses a range of algorithms on different social networks including Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus, Foursquare, Quora and more to estimate your influence and reach on the web. As more and [...]
Well I promised an update on my use of Google+ and its features and I have to say, despite my previous comments about the lack of integration Google are certainly managing to win me over with their constant stream of new features as the beta progresses. I am finding more and more useful content and [...]
About a week ago I received an invitation to Google+ from one of my students (Thanks Haydn). When I followed the link I was disappointed to find that Google were no longer accepting new users, even with invitations. I have experienced this exclusivity idea before with the launch of Google Wave, however I still do not understand [...]
