Archive for March, 2011

• 28 Mar

  

  Written by
  Neil Robinson

  
  

  Category

  • general
  • social networks
  • strategy
  • uncategorized

  Twitter: don’t follow me, follow Socrates

  I enjoyed one of those Twitter engagements this weekend. Well, I say enjoyed, maybe more like the engagement one has with the front of a speeding train.

  It got me thinking about Socrates. I’d bet he’d love Twitter. Lots of sophists online.
  

  I’ll tell you a bit about Socrates. He questioned everything and accepted nothing. For him, truth was its own reward. His philosophy put him up against the sophists.

  Sophists earned a living selling their own “truth”. You weren’t meant to disagree.

  So what can Ancient Greece teach us about Twitter? Glad you asked me… continued over the page… >>

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• 23 Mar

  

  Written by
  Neil Robinson

  
  

  Category

  • cloud
  • products
  • strategy
  • uncategorized
  • web design

  Bing: hey Microsoft, you may find its time to give up the search

  It was hailed as the new dawn. Microsoft was squaring up to Google for search. Google looked to have a fight on their hands with Bing. But look at this…
  

  This is the bing result for Vista Service Pack 2 on Microsoft’s own download site. Bing can’t find it. No results. Zilch. Nothing. What about a Google search?

  Well. Let’s take a look. The result may surprise you… continued over the page… >>

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• 21 Mar

  

  Written by
  Neil Robinson

  
  

  Category

  • banking
  • management
  • mobile
  • products
  • security
  • strategy

  NFS: what the RSA security breach should teach every techy

  Quite a reaction last week when the news broke about the RSA SecureID breach. Someone may now know how to compromise two-factor tokens.
  
  Whilst every villain knows how to work around two-factor authentication anyway, the exposure of the underlying algorithm should have been viewed as inevitable. Before I’m castigated for saying this, let me explain… continued over the page… >>

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