Gary Eckstein General Technology 3 environment, gps, Management, telstra
In Telstra’s* latest ‘Half Year Analyst Briefing Presentation‘ for the half-year ending December 2008 there is a line in a slide under the titled ‘Environmental Social & Governance’ stating ‘GPS reducing fuel consumption by 6%’ (see image at the end of this post). This is a very interesting statement indeed. On the face of it, [...]
Gary Eckstein Social Media 2 cnn, mainstream media, sharing, Social Media, twitter, web, web 2.0
And yet again Twitter is showing that it is at the forefront of world news. As CNN made it’s name during the Kuwaiti war in 1991, so Twitter showed during the terrorist attacks in Mumbai that it is the new ‘media’ force to be reckoned with. With the awful Turkish Airlines plane crash near Schiphol [...]
Gary Eckstein Internet 0 celebrities, google, Internet, live, search, xrank, yahoo
Microsoft has (finally) come up with a great website. Microsoft’s Live search was launched in September 2006 and replaced MSN search. Live has not managed to replace either of the two giants of Web search; Google and Yahoo. In beta testing however is xRank, a demonstration that Microsoft and their Web strategy cannot be taken [...]
Gary Eckstein Social Media 3 addthis, bookmarking, Social Media, social networking, tell a friend
ShareThis, the social bookmarking and sharing service, is making huge headway as one of the market leaders. New ShareThis Widget In the past few days ShareThis has launched a more relevant and user friendly widget (in Beta only for now). The widget is clean, quick and simple to use. I use mixx quite a bit [...]
Gary Eckstein Social Media 22 addthis, digg, email, facebook, mixx, myspace, sharethis, stumbleupon, technorati
In the past week ShareThis has released data showing their most popular Sharing Services during January 2009. The data are illustrated below in the chart provided by ShareThis. The results are likely an accurate reflection of the various sharing services popularity on the web as a whole as ShareThis is extremely popular: Email is by [...]
