Social responsibility and marketing aren’t phrases that sit together very comfortably, but in this age of openness and accountability, they’re increasingly being used in the same breath. At a glance you’d think that communication solutions produced digitally would be more environmentally sound than traditional printed methods, an email, for example, doesn’t use up any trees, or expend any petrol to get to its destination. However, recent research has found that reading the news online for 30 minutes actually produces more CO2 per year/per reader, than reading a printed newspaper.
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Favourite Google Chrome features
24.11.2009 By: ronansprake">ronansprake Under: General Comments: none
As a front-end developer, a new Web browser on the market brings mixed feelings. I’m always keen to see new technology, especially anything that promises to improve user experience on the Web, but I’m also uninterested in yet another platform to test our Web applications against (as if Internet Explorer 6/7/8, Opera, Safari and Firefox on both Windows and Mac isn’t enough!).
Google Wave: One month of waving
15.11.2009 By: ronansprake">ronansprake Under: General Comments: none
Google Wave is the new online tool from Google which offers real-time collaboration on threads called ‘waves’, which are treated as both a conversation and a document.
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