Google, Facebook and many others now use a range of factors to assess the relevance of the results and commercial suggestions they present to you. Sometimes this may be beneficial, but ultimately, are we all being pidgeon holed, ‘filtered’ and ‘bubbled’? Eli Pariser explains the filter bubble concept and calls on the main providers to change how they do business…
UK access to web using smartphones increases
04/08/2011 By
Ofcom, the UK telecoms regulator, has reported that a third of UK adults are now regularly using smartphones to access the Internet and Social Media services. The most visited web site to be accessed by handheld devices was Facebook. Some 43 million hours were spent on it, via smartphones in December 2010. “Addicted” The report [...]
Is Internet Explorer only for the stupid?
03/08/2011 By
The internet news sites have been having a right old go at Internet Explorer, Microsoft’s browser software. Many sites have reported this morning that a survey, carried out by AptiQuant, concluded that people who use Internet Explorer tend to have lower Intelligence Quota than users of competitive browsers. However, this now appears to be an [...]
