The EFF have just released this handy table.
In March 2014 the European Parliament passed the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This places an obligations on companies anywhere in the world that store and process data held on EU citizens.
By parsing out the Google document id from a sharing link in Drive or Apps for business, you can download files directly without being presented with a web interface. Here's how...
ChiefMartec released their Marketing Technology Landscape last week. It's a visual map of digital marketing solutions, definitely worth a look. If you can recognise any more than 10% of these... you probably need to get out more.
Interesting news today courtesy of Slashdot about an experiment in digital media influencing opinion. One for the PR people out there..
A cautionary tale for etailers and customers alike...
A few days ago Tesco announced that they're introducing a marketing surveillance system into their forecourt stores.
So, Adobe have announced that they are going to stop selling boxed software and in the future will offer their products for rent only. We've seen this SaaS (software-as-a-service) approach work well for web-based software products that facilitate collaboration (CRM, ERPs etc), but will it work for visual design tools?
It's not everyday that someone saves a bit of the internet. Today Jeff Atwood did exactly that: discussion forums, an evolution of the original bulletin boards have been brought bang up to date with Discourse.
I've been keeping my eye on Webdoc, Glogster and their ilk for a quite a while now. I'm pretty convinced that these web based, pinterest-like, media collation and commenting tools are the future of blogging.
Congratulations to TechCrunch's Ryan Lawler for creating an internet meme which is bound to end up in the OED, eventually: Glassholes. Love it.
Responding to an article in the Guardian this week, social media analysis firm SocialBakers clarified that the Facebook population in the UK may have actually reached market saturation.
Needed to post this to help any other poor soul trying to get Wordpress to provide an AJAX service to non-logged in users. Note this is only necessary if you've got a plugin active that bans front-end users from back-end functionality. Most of the front-end login plugins do this.
Bespoke content management systems are nearly always just vendor lock-in. There, I said it.
Hopefully Google will index this and some hapless business owner will avoid commissioning a web agency to implement their website using a proprietary CMS.
Several times a week I'm contacted by offshore software development teams looking to partner with us. I'm always interested in these relationships as, with the right management, they can reduce project cost and duration normally at the expense of increased risk. Invariably I'm persuaded by their agent that their team in (normally) Mumbai have better educated, harder-working and cheaper developers than I could ever hope to find in the UK.
Have to say, trialling Microsoft's shiny new operating system by installing it on a Mac running VMware Fusion, did feel a little prejudicial. However the install went like a breeze and it gave me a good feel for how the operating system operates in the real virtual world.
Nearly every commercialised website you visit on the web is selling information about your visit to data marketing companies. Anyone with enough cash can buy this information: seeing the websites you visit, building a profile of your habits, lifestyle and politics. Both the EU and US are making moves to legislate around this issue and its impact on their citizen's privacy, but it's laughably disconnected.
I was lucky enough to get invited by Iain Firks at local PC Lenovo specialists Thinklogic to a great run down of the new Lenovo laptop and workstation product lines.