Skill Zone News issue 97
This month saw the Internet Engineering Task Force celebrate its thirtieth birthday, Wikipedia became a fifteen year old, and seventeen years after it was conceived, Friends Reunited decided its time has gone, its niche now filled by services such as Facebook.
27th January 2016
Are we too dependent upon technology?
We live in an age of computers. Take away the computers, and it does more than set us back to the 1950s. Sometimes we find we just don't have a back up plan.
The medium is not the message
Video looks like being a hot marketing medium in 2016, but web site owners would do well to remember that the medium is not the message.
The challenges facing YouTube
For all its success as a global brand, YouTube still has a problem. It made four billion dollars in advertising revenue last year,... and still didn't break even
Don't diss the tutu
With social networking, everyone has access to the media, and when a group feels slighted by remarks, they can take to Facebook and Twitter with a vengeance. And that's just what happened in Philadelphia recently.