Article Archive for January 2009
Social data portability has been a hotly debated topic with a range of emerging standards competing for adoption.
Afterall, single signon to the web offers a great deal of immediate benefits for users.
Dataportability open standards group has been marketing the concept for a few years now, which supports the OpenID login standard and has been adopted by Yahoo, eBay, Photobucket, and Twitter, and MySpace. Google’s Friend Connect and Facebook’s Facebook Connect are both offering open API’s to developers who can integrate their own login details with one of these major players. Mashable has a good coverage of both of these tools here
History of the Internet is “an animated documentary explaining the progress in computing technologies from 1957 to 2009.
The tale is told using PICOL – Pictorial Communication Language – icons, and is a very effective communication tool,
via Core77
Australia day is here for 2009, and a good chance to review the way digital has brought about change to the way we live.
Here are some key events from 10 years ago in 1999
- Mark Taylor was the 1999 Australian of the year
- Companies spent millions protecting themselves from the Y2K bug
- Google moved from their garage to their first office with a search market share of < %1
- George Bush criticised President Clinton on Kosovo saying “We need an exit strategy before going to war”
Emarketer confirms that the Internet is more popular than Newspapers for news
I would expect that the internet will reach TV by this time next year.
Facebook has experienced a 18% rise during the last quarter of 2008 in Australia, to now boast 4.3 million Australians – up from 2.3 million from 12 months ago.
This number represents about 25% of the online population !
Matt Dickman has more Facebook stats here (note : he is using % of total population where Facebook is %17.07 of the 21.5 million populatoin)
