Pizzas, selfies and swearing – new data-led research
Some interesting data-crunching research projects A new report considers the demographics of selfies in five cities around the world: Bangkok, Berlin, Moscow, New York and Sao Paolo. 20-30,000 images...
View ArticleYouth TV – ‘the need for speed’
The BBC’s youth TV channel to close; but a different story emerges in Belgium In the UK the BBC has announced that it is to close its ‘youth-oriented’ TV channel and move the content onto its online...
View ArticleSharing, collaboration and getting it wrong
There’s nothing like a headline telling you you’ve got it wrong to make you read on. An article on Time.com written by a data analytics expert tells us ‘What [we] think [we] know about the Web is...
View ArticleThe second digital revolution
New information seeking behaviours mean libraries and publishers have to change. People are increasingly creating and consuming information on the move. This, combined with the growth of cloud-based...
View ArticleAccess to the Internet
Google wants to use satellite technology to improve connectivity At the beginning of 2014, there were estimated to be between 2.5 and 3 billion internet users around the world – that’s around 35% of...
View ArticleWorkplace trends – meet the no-collar workers
If you’ve just about got your Gen-X and Gen-Y straight, meet a new group of workers. There are already, according to the latest estimates, 40 million millennials in the American workforce. A recent...
View ArticleTime wasting at work
How much time is wasted at work being non-productive – and what can be done to improve the situation? In Sweden, several employees of the Social Insurance Agency have been discovered browsing on the...
View ArticleChildren and teenagers online
According to recent reports, Google is working on child-friendly versions of some of its services. At the moment Google services are age-restricted (to over 13-years old in the United States; over 16...
View ArticleWorking holidays
What did you do on your holiday? Did it include working? Our employees should relax on holiday and not read work-related emails. German car manufacturer Daimler has been in the news with its employee...
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