I spent the weekend before last searching the internet for news about the well-being of members of my extended family who live just outside Concepcion – the epicentre of the huge earthquake that rocked Chile on 26 February. I was surprised to find that Google quickly became completely irrelevant to my search for information. It [...]

Flickr has finally upgraded its on-site search functionality, and it’s one giant leap for usability. The advanced query form itself remains underwhelming – why such tiny radio buttons? why can’t the search criteria default to your usual preferences? But the results format is much improved (as Jennifer Van Grove at Mashable neatly explains) and should quicken [...]

Over the weekend I read an article that included some interesting demographic and traffic stats comparing facebook, myspace, flickr and linkedin, unfortunately they had used US data (not that handy for us Brits) and it was pretty old (July 2008) so I decided to take a look at it myself.  Here at iCrossing social (and [...]