Another new Wave washes in from Google

This morning as I was scrolling through my Twitter homepage, I noticed a trend in the tweets of the more technologically-savvy of those I follow: much talk and hype about Google Wave, yet another development by the online powerhouse.
Upon further research, I found out that Google Wave is an online personal communication and collaboration tool [...]

How is FastFlip working for you?

I recently interviewed Newsclip CIO Jaco Wilson about Google FastFlip – the new media content product launched by Google earlier this month – as some say – in an attempt to help publishers regain some ground with lost revenue.
Publishers have been struggling with the onset of the web, losing their content to millions of users, [...]

Google launches Street View data collection

On 1 September, Google announced that it will begin collecting data from South African streets, buildings, parks and many other geographic areas. This would serve as a tool that enhances Google Maps and will act as the biggest possible zoom one could have on a map, enabling users to view road signs; building facades; parks; [...]

Tweens using MXit – whose responsibility?

MXit was again judged the coolest website and social networking service facility in this year’s Sunday Times Generation NeXt survey, conducted by HDI Youth Marketeers in partnership with the Sunday Times, and supported by Monash South Africa. In topping the ‘Coolest Social Networking Service and Website’ category, MXit leapfrogged over Facebook and Google in terms of popularity.
There have [...]

Microsoft and Google – trading places?

Microsoft has just launched the Bing search engine, and Google Chrome is launching an operating system – a case of visa versa launches. I recently chatted to Peter Flynn, White Wall Web Managing Director, about whether there is much encroachment in these areas.
Flynn says that this is definitely the case. Microsoft has been trying to get [...]

Google and Microsoft in competition again

There seems to be a lot of competition between Microsoft and Google lately – not least of which has been the news of Google’s operating system, Google Chrome OS, expected to launch commercially next year.
So it was with interest that I read about the latest agreement between Yahoo and Microsoft on the Mail and Guardian [...]

Google News and YouTube invite news groups to share videos

On 28 June, Google paved the way for professional news organisations to share their video content online in order to build bigger audiences for their video content. Google News and Google’s YouTube video-sharing website are inviting news publications that are already sourced in Google News to join the YouTube partner programme.
News sites that allow their [...]

Say hello to Bing

Microsoft is officially launching a new search engine (also dubbed a ‘decision engine‘) to the public that some believe has the potential to topple Google as a prime search engine.
Bing, the re-branded and rebuilt search engine formerly known as Kumo, was designed to replace Live Search, which previously replaced MSN Search.
As usually identified with search [...]

Budding writers step on online platform

All those interested in creative writing; posting it on the internet; and doing it for free can sign up on the Ficly website. Ficly is a collaborative writing community where members can contribute to shared works of fiction. With only 1 024 characters, Ficly users issue story challenges; start new story stubs; and add sequels and [...]

Allowing information to find you

In a blogpost by Mark Cuban, he discusses how Twitter and Facebook compete with Google in an era where social media are becoming more and more significant in business and social life. As is discussed so often, we partake in so many social networks that the idea exists that it is no longer necessary to [...]