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CNET TV has a great new look

On Friday, CNET.com’s podcast Buzz Out Loud announced that CNET would be testing a new site design for their CNET TV website over the weekend pushing the site to about 10% of users.

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Any Question Answered vs 118118

I’m surprised at the responses I have had from my post yesterday about my trail of 118118’s new question answering service. Quite unusually for The Blog of Ross C Brown, the post received replies, most of which pointing to one of 118118’s competitors, Any Questions Answered (AQA).

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You can now ask 118118 anything, but does it work?

118118 is one of the many (supposedly 200+) companies offering Directory Enquiries in the UK and is one of the top three 118 companies which together control 90% of the industry. More recently, 118118 has launched a services allowing you to text the company a question and receive a reply from a real person. [...]

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AppleLive: Pre-Show Planning

June 9th is rapidly approaching and our keynote coverage planning is well underway. I’ll be covering the Steve Jobs keynote here on The Blog of Ross C Brown, on Twitter (or here) and possibly on Ustream.tv (or here and here). In addition to the Ross C Brown Online coverage, I’ll also be providing [...]

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This summer, delete your Facebook!

For the last few days I’ve found myself employed on a freelance basis for a large (and arguably faceless) multinational company looking into methods of using data and information gathered from social networks in their Business Intelligence (BI) Decision Support Systems (DSS). Having looked into the data types available the most important pearl of wisdom I can pass on is that you Facebook/Bebo/MySpace page is telling the world a lot more about you than you might like....

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