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Welcome Back!
By Jamie | January 7, 2008
Hello and welcome to my first new post of 2008. Like many people after the Christmas period, I decided to hold back before posting any fresh content. So for my first post, I’m not going to talking about one subject, just a mixture of news you may of missed, up coming events and anything else that breaks me back into the swing of things.
Last weeks biggest news was about Robert Scoble getting kicked off Facebook. Scoble is probably one of the most famous people in the blogsphere, who blogs about new technology. Robert is afraid to speak his mind, which probably makes him stand out from the crowd. Last week Robert ran a program that pulled information from his Facebook account, which in turn broke Facebook terms and conditions. Almost instantly Robert was removed from Facebook. Then within a couple of days he was back on, which has sparked much debate to weather he should of be allowed back and how much power Facebook has.
Watching Scoble in action is like taking a puppy for a walk. He is insatiably curious, and he follows every lead, no matter how daft. When some new social networking service appears, you can bet he will overdose on it. He was a predictably early subscriber to Facebook, on which he rapidly acquired 5,000 ‘friends’ (the maximum permitted by the service, apparently). He is also, needless to say, a subscriber to Plaxo.com’s contact-management service and became interested in seeing how much overlap there might be between his Facebook friendship network and his Plaxo contacts. Which is where the fun began.
2008 International Consumer Electronics Show & MacWorld
This week get ready for a flood of blog posts on new technology from 2008 International CES. Here is an Interview with Bill Gates on his last CEB show.
In his 11th CES opening keynote address, Gates looked at the sweeping changes since 2001 that have created the first true Digital Decade, including the continued expansion of the popularity of Windows-based PCs, the growing prevalence of broadband networks, the spread of mobile phones and the advent of portable digital media devices.
Then next week expect more iHype from the MacWorld. You can read about some of the rumours at..
http://forums.appleinsider.com/showthread.php?t=82825
Christmas & New Year
I’ve mentioned before, that its good to break up a business blog with some personal content now again. So here is what I got up to over Christmas and New Year period…
My sister and her boyfriend came over from Spain to visit the parents in Lancashire. We managed to catch a game at Anfield, Liverpool. Then they came up to Edinburgh for New Year or Hogmanay as its called in Scotland.
I treated my sister and her Spanish boyfriend to the delights of Haggis Neeps and Tatties with Sheep Dip Whisky sauce.
And just last week we had snow in Edinburgh, here is my snowman donning my Russian hat.
Don’t worry if this is sounding all too personal, we will return with our regular program soon!
What did you get up to over Christmas and New Year?
Oh Happy New Year!
Topics: Events |
January 7th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Hi Jamie,
I hope the Anfield match wasn’t too dull. They’ve been playing some dire football lately.
Have to say, that’s one superb snowman! I didn’t make it out in time.
January 7th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
It was the 4-1 win against Portsmouth, so it was a good game. Yesterday was a terrible match against Luton!
I felt quite sad leaving the snowman, specially when he looked quite cosy with my scarf and hat.
Jamie