Some days ago a client informed me he received 33 messages sent by me. In general, I communicate a lot with our clients, but 33 emails within short time is too much even for me. My first thought was: “My Outlook got compromised”. Some days and a lot of research later I realized it is just a bug in Outlook 2007. A bug that has been ignored by Microsoft for almost two years! What to do?

If you search the web you will find many tips on how to improve your blog and blog posts. We use them as well of course. Some days ago we were reviewing how our blog is developing and we concluded that despite all the knowledge we have we are still making the same beginners mistakes, just like everybody else. That’s why we would like to share the 12 lessons we learned.

Last night Google launched a new service: Google Fast Flip, an online overview of many major news papers and magazines. According to the Google Blog this Fast Flip solution increases the browsing performance when reading news online. By flipping through articles really fast without unnatural delays it should just feel like you are reading print version. Is this the next nightmare for publishers?

Today TweetDeck has released v0.30 of their very successful Twitter desktop client. They claim that this release brings your friends even closer than before. From today you can fully manage your Facebook wall and pages and MySpace integration is available as well. But does this bring your friends closer? Let’s give it a try!

If you don’t know what to do with your time register for every available social network. But for me keeping all my social network accounts up to date is taking too much time. It’s possible to use all kind of tools to link all different networks, but what’s use in it? Is that social? Couldn’t we just all together agree to use just one or two social networks? Which one would win? Please vote on our poll!

Yesterday IT News published that the business process outsourcing market is set to undergo more consolidation among the mid-sized tier-two providers. But this is not applicable to the BPO market alone. About a year ago, at the Baltic Innovation Forum in Gdansk Indian and Eastern European IT providers already came to similar conclusions. No longer can we divide the world into us and them. Cooperation will be needed to become successful.

When, in  May 2009,  Google presented their latest invention Google Wave,  some circles of tech experts received that news quite coldly and without significant interest. Today, a few weeks before Google Wave finally hits  the web there’s a lot of hype around the idea. Despite a huge number of skeptics, expectations are growing especially among social  media enthusiasts. They cross their fingers to get one of 100,000  invitations which Google will send to lucky users, who will have the chance to check Google Wave out. What is Google Wave going to offer us?

Before the downturn, outsourcing was becoming more and more popular mainly thanks to unrestricted access to resources and knowledge of specific domains. Partial reduction of incurred costs was another reason for it and it turned out to be the main reason during the downturn. Nowadays, outsourcing seems to start increasing again. Considering your IT outsourcing providers as a business partners could additionally speed up your recovery once the market starts growing again.

Last week I mentioned many people were waiting for the Facebook 3.0 update on the iPhone. Honestly, I wasn’t. I used not to be such an intensive user of the previous version. The interface didn’t satisfy me, besides hardly any of my European friends were using Facebook and Twitter took most of my “free” time. Curious as I am I decided to install this new version to give it a try. Some days later I have to admit that I am still positively surprised about the major change of the usability of the application. But I have a major remark as well.

Many people have been waiting for the Facebook 3.0 update on the iPhone. Its available in the App Store now and therefore the major question that has to be answered is: What’s new? Will it improve the Facebook experience when using the iPhone? The bottom line answer is yes. Facebook 3.0 offers you a completely new Facebook experience on the iPhone. I will describe some of the main new features.