Since Facebook's recent acquisition of the social media service Friend Feed, I have contemplated the strategic impact this move will have.

For those who aren't aware, Friend Feed provide a service which aggregates feeds from 58 popular social media sites.

Prior to Friend Feed's acquisition I had been using the service to post a...

2009 saw an evolution in social media take up by businesses and individuals alike. We saw a cross over from personalized social voyeurism to SME's and corporate giants alike fall in love with social media and its offerings such as Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, YouTube and so on.

So with such a strong following behind a fairly new and un...

For those of you who are aware of the importance of the online realm, what I am about to highlight, may not shock or surprise you however it may reiterate the true need for an online strategy within your organization starting from the ground up. For those that doubt or question the need for an online presence, brace yourself for some enlighte...

Smartphone sales in the U.S. up 68 percent in 2008.

Many discussions have taken place at the office water cooler since the launch of the iPhone worldwide. It reminds us of the age old arguments, PC or MAC? The new war is - Blackberry or iPhone?

While the device war may not truly ever be resolved, there are some startling facts emerging in the marketplace that are tending to weigh this ...

One subject that has been prominent in the bwired world is web-server architecture. Below is a comparison of server configurations between some of the most popular websites on the Internet today. Facebook They run the LAMP setup, that is, Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP. Memcached is used for database efficiency. Subversion and git are used for ...

After just coming back from overseas I had to deal with the dilemma of buying a new phone given that I smashed mine into little pieces. Now, I'm sure most people find it exciting to shop and see what's out there, be on top of the latest gadgets and all that, but personally, it doesn't interest me. I am practical and simple and want things don...

After stepping out of knee deep code and leaving behind shell commands to line the coast of Australia, I took a deep breath and gazed around this technology driven world. This is what I saw in cyberspace...

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Social Networks will continue to grow into verticals Social Networks in 2007 did explode. We saw the rise and rise of Facebook.com as one of the most popular social networks in the world. The impact of social networks changed some of the existing communities as they scrambled to add social aspects to their offerings. Social networks also star...

Integration of Web with everything else is finally here

2008 will go down as the year of the iPhone. You have to hand it to Apple for creating the hype and again changing the way consumers use technology. Even though we all knew the power of mobile internet it took the iPhone to create the market awarenes...