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Very interesting development born from mashing up Yahoo's BOSS service (roll-your-own search) and Twitter, as reported on Techcrunch. Called Tweetnews it was created by Vik Singh, a developer on the BOSS team, to find real breaking news, and was achieved, apparently, with 100 lines of…

Investors Chronical's assessment of the prospects of the publishing sector makes grim reading. IC makes the point that many publishers have yet to reach the optimal balance between print and online (whatever that may be) and that even after the investments in online technology, digital…

Social media commentator Dion Hinchcliffe lists his tips for 2009 including: 1. tight budgets will drive the adoption of web 2.0 and cloud computing; 2. internal use of web 2.0 technologies will continue apace, though successful external implementations will continue to prove elusive; and 3.

Great philosophical post from tech manual mogul Tim O'Reilly where he considers how to get meaning from business. Called Work on Stuff that Matters he comes up with three principles: 1. Work on something that matters to you more than money: Whatever you do, think…

There's a thought-provoking post by Umair Haque which has been popping up on Twitter among other places which tries to set out the challenges facing us all in the current difficult circumstances. Haque, who is director of the Havas Media Lab, believes this is no…