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All in a day's work
You just can't use the Internet at work like you do at home ...
April 2004
Inside Ocado
Online supermarket Ocado thinks it can use the Web to change the way people shop for food. We visit its state-of-the-art warehouse to find out how it plans to win the grocery revolution. By Kim Gilmour
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Play your cards right
Internet Magazine, May 2004
Using the mouse, I place my chips on the roulette table and spin the wheel. A satisfying rumble emanates from my headphones as the roulette ball races around the wheel. It bounces four, five, six, seven times. "Fourteen red," a male voice says. "Player wins!"
Phishing tackled
Those online scams - and what happens after you fall for one...Continue reading "Phishing tackled"
The offshore data haven
In August 2002, I took a day trip from London to visit the offshore "principality" of Sealand, a disused gun platform off the coast of Harwich to interview Ryan Lackey, the founder of Sealand's offshore hosting company HavenCo (it has now closed). The company claims to be able to host contentious content simply because it's "outside" the UK. But is it really its own sovereignty?
Anyway, it was a very surreal place. You get winched up by a crane to get there! Ryan has since left Sealand to pursue other dreams. I took loads of photographs which I've had on my other website for a while, but you can see some more of my Sealand photographs, and a copy of the whole article. By the way, HavenCo is now closed due to an acrimonious split between founder Ryan Lackey and Prince Michael. amid security fears. It's an interesting story. But read on for mine...
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Scams, schemes, scoundrels
Lurking in the Web's darkest corners no good tricksters are waiting to catch you out.So get wise! Here's how to steer clear of the scamsters and stay safe.
Internet Magazine, Nov, 2003, by Kim Gilmour Continue reading "Scams, schemes, scoundrels"
Tales from the crypt
The BBC has enlisted two cult figures from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to script its new online drama Ghosts of Albion. Kim Gilmour meets them.January 2003
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Web lifts lid on war lies
Disillusionment with over-dramatised, misinformed and repetitive coverage of the war in Iraq has led millions of people to turn to the Web for news.
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Yahoo! gobbles Overture
A news analysis piece.August, 2003.
Just when you thought the world of search engines was consolidated enough, along comes the king of Web portals, Yahoo!, and snaps up its pay per-click partner Overture (which also owns AltaVista and AlltheWeb) in a $1.63 billion (just over 1 billion [pounds sterling]) deal. Continue reading "Yahoo! gobbles Overture"
Photo sharing sites
Photo sharing services: want to put your pics online? We test six of the snappiest sharing services.Internet Magazine, Nov, 2003, by Kim Gilmour
We've come a long way since the camera obscura, the daguerreotype and the Kodak Box Brownie, but the reason why we take photos remains. As Robin William's character Sy Parrish says in the thriller, One Hour Photo: "Nobody takes a picture of something they want to forget."
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Amazon warehouse
Amazon adventure: what strange sights lie at the heart of the operation known as Amazon.co.uk? We sent our intrepid reporter up the M1 to bring us back a full report. Continue reading "Amazon warehouse"
Picture Perfect
The snaps you took during your trip to Venice are mediocre at best, and your glowing, 1,000 word online review of the city won't look the same with those overcast images accompanying it. So how about some lavish imagery to spruce the whole thing up? Continue reading "Picture Perfect"
Something for Nothing
Internet Magazine, June, 2003
Karyn Bosnak's success in raising $20,000 online has encouraged people to get out their Web begging bowls. So is cyber begging a legitimate way to raise money or the latest Net nuisance?
Blogging along
Weblogging-what's it all about? A bunch of losers prattling on about what they had for breakfast and pretending they found links that Memepool unearthed eons ago? Or the new hope, coming up rom the grassroots, for a Web counterculture that's finding itself increasingly drowned out by large corporations? By Kim Gilmour, July 2002.
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The world in union
The 11 September attacks shocked us all. And the Net bore the burden of our collective emotions as millions jumped online to watch the breaking news, contact loved ones and share their grief. Kim Gilmour reflects on how the Internet united the world on that terrible day.
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Blending in
Asian postings offer rewards and challenges, says Fuji Xerox's head of IT, Terry Gatward. First published in MIS Australia, November 1999, by Kim Gilmour
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Changing Brits' and Aussies' perceptions
There have always been those stereotypical images of Brits and Aussies: the bowler hat and the the Devonshire teas; the can of Foster's and the cork hats, for instance.
October, 1997, Canberra Times
