A study has concluded that 78% of twitter tweets are either pointless babble or conversational updates, with minimal tweets that had any actual value to anyone.
Having said that Twitter is currently worth somewhere between $60 and $150 million, that’s some expensive pointless babble.
Now all I need is to put 1% of my ideas into action to come up with a social networking idea with a purpose.
It seems Microsoft are going to continue to support Internet Explorer version 6, despite it being outdated. Support will finally end for the browser in 2014, at which point it will be thirteen years old.
It is thought around 20% of users are still using Internet Explorer 6.
Some critics, mostly website developers and designers, have slammed Microsoft for this decision, creating www.ie6nomore.com. IE6NOMORE is a site dedicated to providing website developers with code that encourages Internet users to upgrade their browser before returning.
I’m almost certain that people using the aging browser have no idea how old and outdated it is, potentially only using it because automatic Windows or Microsoft update either broken, disabled or requires some kind of other human intervention.
I’ve seen it many times before, windows update needs somebody to actually initiate it, some users don’t understand the little yellow shield in the corner means updates need to be installed. I would bet the same percentage are running Windows XP service pack 1 or 2.
This is more a education issue as a support one, after all it doesn’t cost anything to upgrade, or change your browser. When I tell people to use Firefox over Internet Explorer most give me a strange look and ask “What’s Firefox?”.
Digital democracy is the way forward, the internet is used more and more in society today, this would be the next logical step.
Computers and the internet must be used to greatest effect in all walks of life, but especially in an age where MPs’ claim huge expenses to have two homes, just to be close to parliament.
Freeing up MPs’ time to spend with their constituents, and engaging the public, would be a better use of taxpayers money. Having contacted my local MP without any response, I feel very detached from the whole process.
mySociety is asking for ideas for new projects, various ideas have surfaced, however I believe ones close to taxpayers hearts would be:
Online Parliament to reduce MPs’ need to have second home.
Full online public access to MPs’ expenses.
Published interests of MPs’ such as shareholdings, directorships & second jobs.
A way to create more public interest, involvement in politics.
The most commonly asked question when it comes to Content Management System is what CMS is best for me, open source or proprietary?
Many big businesses tend to go for the latter, small businesses tend to think both come at an excessive cost or are too complicated, but this is just not true.
In fact I’d go as far to say that open source CMSs are perfect for small and medium businesses. Joomla!, Drupal and WordPress are very simple to install and maintain, I hope the following article will help you realise the benefits.
The content management systems mentioned above are without doubt the best three free website management systems available today, but finding out what features you need is the first step.
Scheduled publishing and un-publishing
One feature that’s very useful especially if you have lots of limited time offers, or other seasonal content.
Customisable layouts
Invaluable if you want to position content on ether side, at the top or bottom of your main content.
User roles
If you have or require many users to add to the site in a controlled manner, allowing author, editors and publishers work-flows.
Content caching
To streamline visitors access to your site, content caching limits workload on the hosting server allowing it to serve pages and other content as fast as possible.
Nested menus
Sometimes to allow your site to be as accessible as possible nested menus help by hiding sub-menus within main menu items.
Human and search friendly links
If you run multiple advertisements and want additional information to be available via your website you could use these. An example would be http://blog.grahamwalker.me/the-begining-of-the-end-for-wires, this will take you to my article on wireless power. This type of content will also be indexed correctly by the Google and other search engines spiders.
Blogging features
Business is entering the new media oriented and if implemented correctly can have a positive effect on your business.
Ease of use
These systems have very intuitive content submission layouts, showing you very quickly what your content will look like, very feature rich editing with the ability to add multiple types of media.
Searching
Built in search features allow visitors to find exactly what they want, quickly.
Community
Open source software is known for having very active not to mention friendly community support.
Many other add-ons are available to fulfill your needs, some features will be available with one CMS but not the other, so picking the correct one in the first place gives you the best start…
It seems Firefox is gaining ground on Internet Explorer, more and more people are finding out how much better Firefox is, and it’s only going to get worse for Microsoft.
The up and coming browser has been downloaded one billion times since 2004, that averages out to over 16 million per month. it’s now said to have almost one third of the Internet browser market.
After finally agreeing to allow users to choose what browser will be installed when setting up Windows 7, in Europe anyway, Firefox should gain users quite fast.
The newest version of Firefox v3.5.1 is faster than ever at starting up, most of the time Internet Explorer is so sluggish I can go and make a cup of coffee while waiting for it to load, and that’s without opening saved tabs.