Ever wondered how secure your messaging is?
The EFF have just released this handy table. (more…)
GDPR legislation – The Right to be Forgotten
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.
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Direct download link from Google Apps for Business
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…
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Marketing Tech Solutions – too much choice?
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.
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Social media search and its influence on opinion
Interesting news today courtesy of Slashdot about an experiment in digital media influencing opinion. One for the PR people out there..
When ecommerce product recommendations go horribly, horribly wrong
A cautionary tale for etailers and customers alike…
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Tescos launch marketing surveillance systems
A few days ago Tesco announced that they’re introducing a marketing surveillance system into their forecourt stores.
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Adobe Creative Suite goes SaaS
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?
Discourse: Forums saved!
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.
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Webdoc rebranding to Urturn
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. (more…)