Many, many moons ago, I had a vision. No, not one of those funny ones you get after too much Guinness, but an insight into what I would like from a website. I wanted to set one up, but I saw too many barriers. I would either have to host it myself, or get someone [...]
Tag Archives: web 2.0
Your world only gets smaller if you want it to
The other day I was talking about social media in a pub. The reaction was almost one of scorn: that I was a loser for having interest in such matters, that social media was totally irrelevant to one’s life and there were much more important things to be bothered about. Quite apart from this being [...]
Twitter maintenance: the official and unofficial stories
So Twitter is ‘performing maintenance’. It’s still down at the time of writing. They’ve been very transparent and, so the reasoning goes, credible in their dealings, giving regular updates on their blog as they go along. Thing is, I’ve worked in enough environments where software is provided as a service to get an insight into [...]
Which metric is the most important?
EDIT: I got every part of this analysis right, up until the very end when I had simply to average some figures out. Please see here for the updated version. Apologies. I’m on holiday today, so I thought I would spend the afternoon drinking coffee, listening to Pandora (Nick Drake Radio – perfect), stroking the [...]
Lots of lovely little useful utilities
Well we’re approaching the festive period so, like all good media channels, I’ve decided to publish my list for the year. It’s not an insightful look at the past year’s trends or a look ahead at what the New Year may have in store. Oh no. It’s a list of the nice little – and [...]
The PowerPR Index for December 2007
This month I’ve managed to add changes to ranking too. This is quite illuminating: for the first time Steve Rubel has been knocked from the top spot by Online Marketing Blog. The biggest riser is Public Relations Rogue, and the biggest faller is Client Service Insights. 1 +1 Online Marketing Blog 10 10 [...]
Commoncraft tells it like it is – properly
For some time I’ve had a YouTube video embedded in my subscribe page, explaining how RSS works. It describes it so neatly and concisely that I use some of its ideas when telling people about it myself. It wasn’t until recently that I discovered where it came from: the sublimely talented crew at Commoncraft. If [...]
I cannot understand why Ad Age has decided to adopt Alexa as a metric
I cannot understand why Ad Age has decided to adopt Alexa as a metric. It is well known that Alexa has a strong bias towards tech and especially, as Naked PR eloquently states, webmasters. Furthermore, the Alexa ranking is given a score of 30. This gives it twice as much influence than Bloglines and places [...]
Play your company’s radio station – on a radio
Personalised media is great. Pandora, Last.FM, Matchmine, even YouTube, are essentially your own radio stations. But you can go further than that, and actually create radio stations with friends and then beam them to a stereo. Your very own radio station on your very own radio. How cool is that? I like Pandora. Why? Because, despite its [...]
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Social spume
- 10 Apps for Finding AppsWith the bounty of apps available for mobile devices, it would take a full-time job to customize the best apps to suit our needs and populate our devices. Of course, there are the good ‘ol standbys like Facebook, Shazam, Twitter, Pulse, Angry Birds, (insert your favorite app here), but there are so many others that are worth the real estate on your phone — i […]Jeana Lee Tahnk
- Turn Instagram Photos Into a PosterEnjoy uploading pictures to the Internet via Instagram? Now you can turn your collection into a poster. Thanks to London-based online retailer Firebox, Instagram lovers can create their own poster by selecting their favorite photos to build their own. By clicking the Buy button on Firebox’s Instagram poster product page, Instagram members are prompted to add […]Samantha Murphy
- Liking WebHostingBuzz, and dealsJust over a month ago, I started a relationship with a new web hosting service, WebHostingBuzz. The words you’re reading now are served up to your screen from a database in the cloud (well, from a dedicated Dell server physically located in a data center somewhere in the US). As I noted in my first post about WebHostingBuzz, you now get content served to you […]neville@nevillehobson.com (Neville Hobson)
- Are You Smarterer Than Other Job Candidates? Prove ItThe Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: Smarterer Quick Pitch: Smarterer authenticates practical skills with timed online quizzes. Genius Idea: Crowdsourced, living tests for ever-changing […]Sarah Kessler
- Are Artists Luring Grammy Votes Via Social Media?Music artists have invited fans deeper into their lives through social media for years, but is the content they share online starting to capture the attention of Grammy voters? The 54th Grammy Awards airs Sunday, and the Recording Academy has declared digital, mobile and social media a focal point of this year’s proceedings. With more focus on social media, […]Brian Anthony Hernandez
- Is Your Blog Doing Okay?Last week, I told the story of how I achieved my best month ever on DPS. While I used that post as a case study to present some ideas that I hoped you may be able to use on your own blogs, there’s a hidden hitch with that kind of post: it can give you the impression that you should be aiming to triple your revenue each time you hone a promotion on your site. […]Darren Rowse
- U.S. Consumers Buy 20% of Valentine’s Gifts Online [INFOGRAPHIC]Consumers are expected to spend $17 billion on Valentine’s Day gifts this year, roughly a fifth of which will be spent online. That’s according to projections from the National Retail Federation and eMarketer, whose data is visualized in the infographic from Monetate below. Interestingly, men spend more than twice the amount women spend on Valentine’s Day: $ […]Lauren Indvik
