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Living away from home makes you miss friends, family… and, perhaps oddly, the place. VR Web Design offer a service which gives a Virtual Tour of London and other cities which is very innovative and cool. Note: the spheres are areas of focus / interest which can be clicked on to shift the focus to another part of the city.   This was ...

This is the bold claim by the web browser company - Opera. Watch this space on Tuesday. What this actual means is unknown and any conjecture is circumspect but there is an article on The Register here which explains what this could be…   So on Tuesday at 9 AM (8 AM BST) the web will be reinvented here – it is great that outlandish claims ...

Microsoft have launched a new Search Engine called Bing incorporating the technology comes from Microsoft’s acquisition of Powerset (not just a rebrand of Windows Live). It is being marketed as more than just a search engine, rather as a decision engine. It is in preview and you can try it out here, the video is worth a look too. ...

How big is your network? How well connected are you to the information you need? How much time do you spend trawling for information or a contact? How many clicks do you need to do to find out the information or person that you need? The questions can go on, but  are the answers to these more or less than 6 on average? Well, you are 6 hops ...

When Alexander of Macedonia [link] was 33 he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer, its a shame he wasn't around in today's world as there would be plenty of battles for him to get his teeth into - especially with visualizing reams of information in a ever flowing and tempestuous sea of data which can be visualized in a 3D ...

With the recent changes to PerformancePoint Server the way it is procured and licensed is changing. If like me, you still want to offer clients a BI solution which uses PerformancePoint the following may be of interest - good news, it is getting cheaper (thanks to the guys at Microsoft who gave me the information): · Until April 1st, the ...

I don't want to wish my life away, but I cannot wait for 2019 if this is what we are going to be working, playing and living with.   Predicting the future is tough - we still don't have flying cars, my jet pack is yet to materialise and summer holidays aren't on the moon... but some of Microsoft's Business Division have come up with ...

Building on from a previous post Business Intelligence Data Visualisation - How to Confuse... I look into more detail about adding context to BI with a quick win - add textual descriptions to reports to tell a story. I have all too often seen and indeed been involved in projects where wonderful reports have been created; agonising over how to ...

Gartner have highlighted mashups as a growth area for 2009 and predict that ''by 2012, one-third of analytic applications applied to business processes will be delivered through coarse-grained application mashups'' in the Five Predictions report. I have been looking at harnessing the power of mixing geographic visualisation techniques with ...

I don't mean Social BI as in a Social Smoker or Social Drinker - someone who only does it on weekends, in a crowd or once in a while.... I am coming from the collaboration, decision making dialogue, tagging perspective. Where users have a greater ability to collaborate  informally as people do with other social sites (LinkedIn, Facebook ...