Can the Statusphere Save Journalism?
This is a great post by Brian Solis at Techcrunch on rising influence of micro-blogging and “status” services like Twitter and Facebook in today’s journalism. Ultimately, it concludes, its not the mediums but rather the quality of content and how its received by the social community. Enjoy reading here.
Microsoft’s Kumo Search Service.
Never, ever, under estimate Microsoft. In true win at all costs focus, Microsoft is re-packaging its online search service as “Kumo”, a word meaning spider and/or cloud in Japanese. This is hardly news since the announcement was made in early March 2009. But, couple this news with the fact that
The fibre-optic link is nearly here – but some should be worried
This is a great post by Sunny Bindra on his Sunwords Blog. When everyone is speaking about the merits of the soon to be operational high speed undersea cables in Kenya, what are the risks and challenges ahead? Enjoy his views here.