This visual tool allows you to view any user’s tweets as a floating tag cloud. The engine filters the posts to create an emphasis on the topics the user is tweeting about so you can quickly get an idea of the topics they have written about recently.

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We’re still in the early days of Web 3.0, but there is a quantum shift on the horizon and we need to be ready for how pervasive this shift will be in our physical lives, and ready for it in our organisations digital ones. There is a lot of research being conducted into the role social media will play in our corporate future and I will be following this to see how close to my vision Web 3.0 comes.

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No matter what the name, you, the developer, will still be dealing with reliability and accountability. Using someone else’s infrastructure for your application will forever be a business risk. So, is Cloud Computing the way forward, or is it too early to tell?

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Twitter provides a platform for micro-blogging. So what is Twitter? It’s similar to your subconscious - a list of things you might like to blog, but are either too short or not quite on-brand (for business blogs), or conversely too business-like (e.g. blatant self-promotion) for personal blogs. But how do we apply it to marketing?

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A bug has been discovered that could allow people to hijack entire portions of the Internet and redirect traffic to wherever they want to. So, when you type in www.mybank.com you will get a site that looks and feels exactly as it should - it would even pass all the anti-phishing checks your browser or PC runs - but, and here’s the catch, it would be operated by thieves from a server far, far away from your bank.

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