Technorati recently celebrated its third birthday.

It tracks global conversations in real time across all forms of citizen media.

Technorati tracks other forms of citizen media, including video blogs (vlogs), podcasts, and amateur movies and videos –all in real time. All this activity is monitored and indexed within minutes of posting. Technorati provides a […]

The EU eLearning Conference 2006 was held earlier this week in Espoo, Finland.

Two presentations in particular were of note.

Teemu Arina spoke about how the social web supports informal learning.

I consider the conversational social web, shifts in industrial production logic and post-industrial knowledge work practices as important issues in understanding what is going on and to […]

One trillion dollars will be spent worldwide on all forms of communication in 2006.

Of this $400 billion will be spent on marketing globally.

The top 100 global marketers will spend $100 billion alone.

New ways of communicating are disintermediating traditional media channels.

Advertising, PR and Marketing Services built around traditional media is outmoded.

Instead of talking to or at […]

Microsoft currently employs in excess of 58k people worldwide.

Maintaining internal + external communications presents challenges.

However Microsofts success in doing so has evolved from its Channel 9 project.

It was designed to facilitate comms between Microsoft and its developers and users.

Lenn Pryor conceived Channel 9 and told his story to Jon Froda and Jesper Bindslev.

The Channel 9 […]

The Search by John Battelle gives a good overview on the history of Internet search.

Technorati founder David Sifry has pioneered a new way of thinking about search.

He spoke about sociological change of the Internet in this Economist interview.

David also recently issued his fifth State of the Blogosphere report.

To summarize :

- As of October […]