One to watch, as it were… BBC Internet Blog By Nic Price on 1 November 2007 — 1 min read […] I think we have been slow to embrace blogs as a way of discussing our strategy and direction. This often leads to the debate happening elsewhere, based often on only half the information, and without our being able fully to join in the debate. We’ve not done ourselves any favours, and we want to... More
Silly money By Nic Price on 24 October 2007 — 1 min read From TechCrunch: Facebook Takes the Microsoft Money And Runs. The $240 million is a minority stake that values the company at $15 billion. Uh oh… More
The Next Net 25 By Nic Price on 2 March 2006 — 1 min read This from CNNMoney.Com: A new Web revolution is picking up steam, and the next Google or Microsoft could emerge from the companies that are in the vanguard. Via a certain high-profile blog on our intranet! 🙂 More
Amazon takes on the search giants with Alexa By Nic Price on 17 December 2005 — 1 min read Every so often an idea comes along that has the potential to change the game. When it does, you find yourself saying – “Sheesh, of course that was going to happen. Why didn’t I predict it?” Well, I didn’t predict this happening, but here it is, happening anyway. In short, Alexa, an Amazon-owned search company... More
Web 2 or not web 2 By Nic Price on 21 November 2005 — 1 min read I’m full of admiration and respect for Tim O’Reilly but I get really wound up by what he’s coined “Web 2.0” or “web 2 point oh” as it seems to be pronounced. It’s just the web. Nothing more nothing less. Giving it a version number somehow suggests it’s something that can be commoditised, productised, owned.... More
Google base: another step towards global domination By Nic Price on 2 November 2005 — 1 min read If you add in every small business in the world – and believe me, Google is thinking that way – you can sum up Google’s ambitions in the commercial world as this: the company would like to provide a platform that mediates supply and demand for pretty much the entire world economy. John Battelle in... More
Google calendar imminent? By Nic Price on 4 October 2005 — 1 min read I’ve been looking for some open source calendar software to sit alongside my blog for my own personal use and to share if useful one or two event categories with friends and family Having just read that a google calendar might be with us within a month, I might just wait and see what it... More
Goodnig8t By Nic Price on 14 July 2005 — 1 min read Blogging is changing and challenging journalism. It changed and challenged mine even though I was doing the blogging. It is a way to focus the collective intelligence of the audience onto the facts and arguments. Moblogging from a single device that can do words, pictures, audio and video gives us a taste of the future:... More
Google map pins – joining the dots By Nic Price on 30 June 2005 — 1 min read Several times recently I’ve been describing walks and runs to people and thought wouldn’t it be great to be able to plot them out on the amazing Google maps service. It already does a great job with routes from A to B (say East Dulwich to Marylebone High Street – my current daily bicycle commute).... More
Lies, damn lies and statistics By Nic Price on 28 June 2005 — 1 min read I’ve just spent 10 minutes filling in Cameron Marlow’s weblog survey for his phd at MIT I’m looking forward to seeing his results More