Google Me, Facebook, Social Media and the Semantic Web

In the last few days, I’ve been hearing some interesting rumours on the social media scene.

The consensus is that Google are working on something behind the scenes that appears to be a direct competitor to Facebook. Supposedly entitled “Google Me”, it’s not entirely surprising that Google are rumoured to be doing this. Probably somewhat taken aback by the rampant growth and traffic that Facebook has been enjoying recently, it would seem that Google need something to prevent Facebook becoming too strong a competitor. They need to compete with Facebook on a level playing field. There’s no doubt about it that whilst Google are the King of Search, Facebook is the King of social media and social media is taking the web world by storm.

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Thoughts on Apple, Google Chrome and Adobe Flash

There has been a bit of a turf war growing recently. It all came head to head with the release of the Google Nexus One. Apple saw this as a direct threat to the iPhone and their business model. Needless to say, ties between the two companies have soured rapidly as of late.



It was interesting to see just before the release of the Apple iPad, Steve Jobs came out and denounced the use of Adobe Flash and categorically denied that Apple would ever support it. People were wondering why? It’s hard to deny there is large support and demand for Flash Content. Steve Jobs claims that the world is moving towards HTML 5. I do agree that this is the case, however, people are not ready to entirely ditch Flash. It is still a valid platform and integral to the web. (more…)