Archive for the ‘Peppermint Digital’ Category

Goodbye Google, hello Bing

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

I've been an avid fan of Google and its products over the years.  I installed their web browser and toolbar and also set up Google Calendar and Docs on my wife's new Netbook.  Even so, I've become increasingly frustrated with the company, to the point where I've decided to make ...

Oh, how we love to tweet about the weather

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

We Brits have always had something of a reputation across the world for incessantly discussing the weather.  The current online chatter around the heavy snowfall here is nothing short of an avalanche. Working from home, after failing miserably to dig my car out of the snow, I logged on to my ...

Riding the Waves with Google

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

I received my Google Wave preview invite over two weeks ago and wanted to write my initial impressions on this well publicised 'technical revolution' - a mixture of MSN Messenger and email. As soon as I opened the application I received 12 invites to send out to friends and colleagues. As ...

Tweets from Tehran touch the heart

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

I wonder if Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams and Biz Stone – founders of Twitter – ever envisioned that their cute microblog would become the mouthpiece of an oppressed people in the Middle East. Social media has empowered Iran’s citizen journalists to circumvent their nation’s draconian and ever-encroaching media censorship. It’s giving ...

Will Bing bring in the bling for Microsoft?

Friday, May 29th, 2009

Yesterday, Bing was the third most popular search term on Twitter.  If you don't know what Bing is by now, then you must be either living on another planet or have absolutely no interest at all in all things web-related. Bing is Microsoft's latest attempt to break into Google's monopoly of ...