blending the mix

 
Three things got me annoyed yesterday:
1) Not being at Web2expo - i’ll get over that, i’m trying to get to Berlin 2) Preparing for a practical workshop on blogging only to realise that 75% of the time is going to be spent explaining what tags are […]

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Image courtesy of Rebecca
The web is awash with the scandal of the frigging Viacom IP order.
I don’t think you’ll find anybody in the industry who won’t agree with Pete, but does the general public really care?
If Viacom was what I would call a direct, one brand business, like McDonalds (i.e. the public brand is […]

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Perspective 1 - The Writers
Visit youtube these days and you are highly likely to come across a rogue’s gallery of really popular videos.
They are people you wouldn’t look twice at in the street - your Average Joe’s - but these Average Joe’s just happen to have written some of the funniest things on TV and […]

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this is my imagini profile badge ————->
I stumbled across Imagini today, which, with 4.2M + members is a surprise I haven’t already stumbled accross it!
With so much content (and inevitably, text) being created in social networks, imagini takes a refreshingly different approach.
By answering lifestyle questions with your choice of image form a selection of […]

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MarketingVox reports some interesting details about facebook’s recent growth.
Maybe the money isn’t in the kids after all…

More than half of Facebook users are not currently enrolled in a university or college.
The fastest-growing demographic is the 25+ age group.
Facebook is the sixth-most trafficked site in the United States.
Users spend an average of 20 minutes on the […]

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Dave Winer, in his first-month report on his experience with the iPhone makes an extremely good obvservation about not just the iPhone, but mobile web browsers in general.
“there’s the limit of how much detail our eyes can see and how big our hands are”
And he is absolutely right. PDA’s have been around for long enough and developed by […]

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E-consultancy reports on a Quantcast report which shows that some facebook widget-developers are seeing three-fold increases in traffic to their websites.
THREE TIMES THE TRAFFIC

In the this period Slide has seen its global reach triple, while daily global unique visitors have grown from 753,000 to more than 2.3m, an increase of 207%.

HotorNot has doubled its global […]

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Steve Rubel reports that the page view is now dead. With the increased use of Ajax, updating only the dynamic content, page refreshes (and therefore their views) are no longer relevant.
Nielson are now measuring visit duration instead, but how does this address the matter of tabbed browsing? As soon as a new tab is opened, […]

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(thanks Euromac for the photo)
After many weeks of turmoil and a not insignificant amount of stress (!) I am delighted to say I have now accepted an offer of employment with a truly exciting company.
KMP, based in Stockport, Manchester are at the forefront of digital marketing, working on all manner of bluetooth, API, widget and […]

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Thanks to Nathan Weinberg for the image!
Apple only ever seems to be about one man - Steve Jobs. “Innovative” Steve Jobs, “marketing maverick” Steve Jobs, “innovator” Steve jobs…yet Microsoft, the largest and most (arguably!) innovative software company in the world seems to be perceived as thousands of little individuals conspiring against the world to….erm…make using […]

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