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In 2011 Google did the unthinkable or for a lot of people, the “about time” by dropping their all new Panda algorithm that would change the old school way that it had spidered and indexed sites previously. This in part was a pre-cursor for Google+ and more social results, but more importantly to weed out and drop the spam and poor content that ...

2011 ended pretty much as it began, and at the same lightening speed... seems to be true what your parents and grand parents tell you, that the older you get the quicker the time passes, and this year seemed to go particularly fast, well in this bloggers opinion at least! 2011 saw a number of key events, and one of those was the inevitable ...

** UPDATE - While writing this post RIM & BlackBerry were in the midst of a 3 day blackout due to some connectivity errors at the mothership & users are about to fall off the party wagon (at last!!) ***I’ll be totally honest, I have NEVER liked BlackBerry. I hated their devices, hated their OS and just generally watching some of the ...

What is great about running a blog for almost 5 years, is you can look back and see if you were accurate in your thinking and future strategy planning, or not. Back in August 2008, I wrote a couple of pieces around the emerging Cloud trend. Fast forward to 2011, you can't go anywhere without hearing anyone's thoughts, views or own service in the ...

I’ve been talking about the state of the high street for my last few posts and of course will continue to discuss and debate the future and where there could be some light at the end of the tunnel (looking specifically at the launch of Wellworths - a great well done to Claire Robertson and her team or re-invigorated and re-invented retail takes a ...

Whilst working and thinking around what new possibilities can be attained by the pending IE8 launch - wanted to try and push the boundaries of how and why we use Internet browsers - and from that in 2009 and what is the latest trend around e-commerce and web browsing. Ladies & Gents let me introduce you to "nano-browsing" Nano ...

Microsoft now seems to be following in the footsteps of Apple with their Mobile Me service – with their My Phone service. I can only cover my eyes in advance of what could or could not happen. One would have to hope that the powers that be use the great Live Mesh framework that I am enjoying (yes I do use and like some of Microsoft's technology) ...

Firstly some exciting news from January 2009 The Diary of A Madman Blog will also be available as Podcast of a Madman  with the usual ranting's and good stuff, as well as a whole host of other media that I can only talk about, but the podcast you can also listen, watch and view some episodes - all be announced and then you can subscribe and ...

**Update Google Chrome (Beta) is now Live - download here www.google.com/chrome More Opens Source stuff this time from Google - who announced their Open Source Browser in a direct fight with FireFox Google KNOW very well how we browse and use the web - so now it's there turn to deliver a browser that we need based on our browsing habits.. Here ...

So things are beginning to hot up now in the mobile application space as Google let out details of their apps marketplace along with their beta release of their eco system. It has been reported that the process is very much like posting a video onto YouTube – if you are a developer you provide your details via the registration process, upload ...