Yahoo! have released a browser for iPads which has some innovative ideas in terms of the way it handles and displays search from the browser chrome. Quite apart from the fact that Yahoo! has had some business issues that have dominated coverage, is this user experience enough to move Yahoo! out of its older, poorer audience niche? Initial impressions of some commentators have been positive, I am less convinced of it as a breakout application:

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This week, I’m donating the bulk of my blog to fellow Kindred Director Anastasia Scott (@stasiascott), who was the lucky ‘volunteer’ for Monday’s Agile Government Communications conference, setting out the future of government communications, and communications procurement. It’s not just because it’s sunny and I fancy a break – it’s more that as someone who was actually there, she can offer way more insight than I can. It’s interesting stuff anyway – enjoy!

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Technology venture capitalists have been going through a lot of change since the dot.com bust, with disruptions to their model including start-ups needing less cash and Sarbanes Oxley suppressing the pipe line for early exits via an IPO. As innovation (ok web services) has become cheaper, it has attracted a wider range of entrepreneurs than bright (usually male) engineers with an idea. A new class of angel investor has filled some of the slots that venture capital firms would have traditionally filled.

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I was at Salesforce.com’s Cloudforce conference this morning and watched as different companies from Burberry to O2 went up and talked about how they were using social and integrating it into their business. Which got me thinking how would public relations be integrated into the process? Would this solve the challenges around measurement, or would it show PR up to be the emperor’s new clothes?

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Several years ago I was talking to the MD of a mid-sized PR agency about things that worried him about his business. His biggest was pretty straightforward: more than three-quarters of his staff were female, and the majority of them were account manager level and above. And many were in their late 20s to early 30s.

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