Do These Numbers Add Up?

The recent Pew/​​Internet Millennials report suggests that young people are far more con­nected than any other age group. They are 50% more likely to have created a social net­working profile, 40% more likely to use Twitter and nearly four times as likely to have made a video of them­selves. They’re also avidly mobile – with 41%

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Book Review: Me and My Web Shadow

You don’t need to be a tech­nical genius or have to hack into Google’s servers to make sure that your online rep­res­ent­a­tion shows your good side. All you need is to be diligent; create a plan and stick to it.

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Age of Social Network Users

New data from Pingdom on the age of social network users confirms the rumours. They are mostly quite old, or they lie a lot about their age.

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The Word: Publicy

You’ll have seen this word flying about recently and it’s time for some explanations.

Err… don’t you mean ‘pub­lic­ally’? [’publicly’ if you’re American]

No. Well, in some ways, yes, I do. Let me explain.

In the past, there has been an assump­tion that privacy was the default state of human exist­ence. It was only when

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Growth of Social Networks (or Not)

New data from Nielsen confirms what you probably already know. Traffic to and time spent on social net­working sites has boomed over the last two years. As the charts below show, people across the world are spending around five-​​​​and-​​​​a-​​​​half hours per month on social net­working sites compared to just over two hours at the

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Mobile + Cloud — Gartner’s Crystal Ball

Late December and early January see the seasonal appear­ance of a popular type of blog post: ‘My Predictions for [Next Year]’. They’re a great stock-​​​​in-​​​​trade because you can say whatever you like and nobody can prove you wrong until the end of the fol­lowing year, by which time everyone’s for­gotten. I’ve written a couple in the

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