My Digital FootPrint

http://www.itv.com/meridian-east/freak-storm01061/ Freak floods in Kent yesterday (8th Sept 2010) left my sister and Mark's home under 12" of water.   Video interview for Meridian TV - who happened to be driving past when it all happened. They are very grateful to Kent Fire and Rescue who spent 2 hours pumping their house out. More (wet) digital footprints......

http://www.itv.com/meridian-east/freak-storm01061/ Freak floods in Kent yesterday (8th Sept 2010) left my sister and Mark's home under 12" of water.   Video interview for Meridian TV - who happened to be driving past when it all happened. They are very grateful to Kent Fire and Rescue who spent 2 hours pumping their house out. More (wet) digital footprints......

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Guest blog from Alan Moore - original post is here http://smlxtralarge.com/2010/09/06/the-mobile-patent-wars/   It is well recorded that one of the reasons Apple decided to put their antenna on the outside of their iPhone was because Nokia has such a comprehensive patent portfolio on antenna’s in mobile devices, it shied away from going down the potential route of another round of bruising encounters concerning patent infringement, supported by these links ( here ), ( here ), ( here ). There are currently 4.6 billion mobile devices in the world, and mobile and the internet are rapidly converging. The reality is this that patents will still be used as a means by which one can protect market-space, future revenues, and growth. The fact of the matter is that patents are all too often an after thought in many M&A process, RIM/Apple/Nokia/HTC have all been involved. Yet more multinationals are getting into patent wars, as we see today, using patents, to protect their competitive advant

Guest blog from Alan Moore - original post is here http://smlxtralarge.com/2010/09/06/the-mobile-patent-wars/   It is well recorded that one of the reasons Apple decided to put their antenna on the outside of their iPhone was because Nokia has such a comprehensive patent portfolio on antenna’s in mobile devices, it shied away from going down the potential route of another round of bruising encounters concerning patent infringement, supported by these links ( here ), ( here ), ( here ). There are currently 4.6 billion mobile devices in the world, and mobile and the internet are rapidly converging. The reality is this that patents will still be used as a means by which one can protect market-space, future revenues, and growth. The fact of the matter is that patents are all too often an after thought in many M&A process, RIM/Apple/Nokia/HTC have all been involved. Yet more multinationals are getting into patent wars, as we see today, using patents, to protect their competitive advant

Both of these services analyse your patterns and email behaviour to make suggestions…..leaving the only question as “when will Gmail write the email for me, sent it and respond so I can spend all day on the beach?” * Got the wrong Bob *  is a new Labs feature aimed at sparing you this kind of embarrassment. Turn it on from the Labs tab under Gmail Settings, and based on the groups of people you email most often, Gmail will try to identify when you've accidentally included the wrong person — before it's too late. When's the last time you got an email from a stranger asking, "Are you sure you meant to send this to me ?" and promptly realized that you didn't? Sometimes these little mistakes are actually quite painful. Hate mail about your boss to your boss? Personal info to some random guy named Bob instead of Bob the HR rep? Doh! http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/new-in-labs-got-wrong-bob.html * Don’t forget Bob * …. Have you ever realized you mistaken

My starting position is that the education system is encouraging the Social Media Generation (SMG) to think about their digital footprints – Halleluja!   I agree with the principal that you should make ‘people’ aware that what their write about themselves can come back to haunt them.  Indeed, further, what they say about others may be an indication of their professionalism.   However, following a round table, it is also evident that what the SMG have done is created ‘virtual identies’  There is one, the public facebook which looks like they have never done anything exciting or broken any health and safety law (basically rather dull and duitiful), and then the series of private worlds where they use nick names to share the reality of their shared lives. Therefore, the employer can now see a perfect digital history, which has been created for them, meaning that as an employer your online check is now as good as reviewing a CV.  You know it is beefed up, indeed Mr Employer did you know