Censorship and the Internet – Govt suggests content controls
In a new Government proposal for this year we could be seeing controls imposed on internet content. In an interview late last year with The Daily Telegraph, Culture Secretary Andy Burnham...
Twitter, facebook etc…. does anyone care?
There’s been a big buzz for a while now about social media being “the next big thing”, and you’d have had to be hiding in a cave for the last couple of years to be unaware of Twitter, Facebook,...
Customise your Google Search
If you use Google search whilst logged in to your Google account, you’ll probably have noticed something new by now. There’s some little control buttons appearing next to your search results. So...
Brand names in Google Adwords battle
Of interest to anyone who uses Google’s Adwords – there is a battle going on in the courts over brand name use in Adwords. Flower delivery company Interflora is suing Marks and Spencer and Flowers...
Browser security scare now ‘patched up’
It emerged last week that a security flaw – which was serious enough to make national headline news – has allowed criminals to take over other users’ computers by steering them to infected...
Bickering in the US over who controls the web
Anyone with half an eye on the internet news on the other side of the pond might have noticed a debate which has been trundling on for a while which relates to control of the web. Net...
Positive Energy… why Cleantech is the next big thing
What do you get when you mix environmental awareness, improved operational performance, and better business models? Well, Cleantech, of course. Cleantech has sprung out of an awareness that the...
I want to work for Google!
My life would be better all round if I lived in California, I’m sure – but this little nugget on the Google blog made me want to pack my bags and go: A Googlicious Time Not only are the...
The web is too much: trends, technologies and what you can do if you don’t need sleep…
If you live much of your life on the web, as we do at Freshleaf, you have days when you’re inspired by the sheer wealth of ‘new stuff’ which appears on a daily basis, and other days when it all...
Is the future of the application web-based?
Five years ago, you might not have known what a web-based application was. Now, there are literally thousands of web-applications out there, which many of us use on a daily basis. With so many...
Happy Birthday, Google saves the world!
So Google is now ten years old. How time flies when you’re creating complex search algorithms, eh? Not being ones to make a big noise about things (much) Google have launched some fairly...
So what does Chrome mean for Mozilla, and for me?
As a post-script to my post on Google’s newly launched browser, Chrome, I just wanted to add some thoughts on what this means for Mozilla. Their browser, Firefox, is currently the best browser out...
Welcome to the world, Google Chrome
You might have to be living under a rock to have missed the launch of Google’s brand new, open source browser Chrome earlier this week; but you might be wondering what all the fuss is...