Archive for the ‘Social Networking’ Category

One of etonDIGITAL’s newest clients and StudentBox founder, Carl Pihl, is currently appearing in the hit BBC Three series ‘The Last Millionaire‘. Carl is one of twelve entrepreneurs taking part in the show, which sees them test their wits and business acumen in a range of cities worldwide each week. The series has only recently started so you can still easily catch up with the action, just as the competition is really hotting up!

Carl is so far doing very well on the show, he was runner up in the first episode (each episode sees two millionaire contestants leave). Fluent in three languages and with a successful background in a range of business sectors by the time he left university, Carl…

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There is a now pretty well known Facebook group entitled ‘If 10 million join Marc Zomberg will bring back the old Facebook‘ that I revisited the other day to check how user levels were doing. To my surprise the group has continued to grow and now has over 2.25 million members. There is more that’s strange about this than just the wierd mis-spelling of Zuckerberg’s name in the title (some users claim it is a joke, though I’m left slightly puzzled by it. I guess it does sound kinda silly…)

The odd thing is that there are over 400 such groups on Facebook at the moment, all taking the form of a petition to bring back the previous profile design (the…

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Web 2.0 take-up across the business sector has continued to rise this year with more and more companies integrating features such as blogs, RSS feeds, Wikis and podcasts into their operations. However the use of some services is actually falling – and overall there still remain many who are reluctant to adopt such tools, often to their detriment. Question is; Why does scepticism still prevail over Web 2.0 in a business context?

(N.B. All data referred to is from a recent survey by management consultants, Mckinsey, who asked nearly 2,000 executives a range of questions concerning web 2.0 attitudes and practice).

With only roughly one-third of participating companies using blogs, RSS and Wikis (the most increasingly popular tools) it seems there is…

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Following the recent departure of one of its key collaborators, Francois Zaninotto, Symfony has taken a fair bit of stick and has seen some users abandon the web app framework in favour of alternatives such as Zend.

It seems Francois’ frustrations with the closed nature of Symfony development (he says 95% of decisions are made by one man – creator Fabien Potencier) finally outweighed his enjoyment of working on the project, prompting him to leave (more details can be found at Redo The Web, Francois’ blog).

Despite boasting some pretty high profile users (Yahoo Bookmarks and Askeet to name a couple) and thousands of smaller ones (see this Symfony list of some of the key sites built on the framework), the initiative is…

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Etondigital is proud to announce the the launch of Skipso (currently operating in Private Beta) – a unique online professional environment and marketplace dedicated to clean and sustainable technological innovation. Whether you wish to test the viability of your business ideas with industry experts, recruit hot new talent for your venture or invest funds in a project, Skipso is here to help connect with the people who can help make it happen.

Skipso allows all users to create a free individual profile from which to manage all Skipso activity. From here you can participate at a community level in activities such as joining thinktanks, rating other content or asking and answering questions. You can publish your own blogs and presentations to…

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