Media Week

Nodding heads are normally a good sign when you’re speaking in public and there were quite a few at the Online Information Show yesterday when I was talking about how Microsoft uses social media to communicate with advertisers and gather feedback. Kicking...

Nice to see The Sunday Life Show at the weekend giving a balanced view on social networking. Too often the dramatic music starts up and shadowy figures can be seen huddled ove computer keyboards giving the illusion that most of us are up to no good on...

In Hitwise's July newsletter, its featured article talks about how visits to blogs and personal websites hit 1.9% of all internet activity in June. Now that might not sound a lot, but the fact that the growth of blog traffic is outpacing that of "traditional"...

.....your article in last weekend’s Mail on Sunday – 400 Facebook Friends, But Who Else Did The Web Let Into Laurent’s Life? – was a little silly! Here are a few comments: - Individuals and companies search for their names online in order to measure their...

So Facebook is bigger than MySpace ! Surely it was only a matter of time? To survive the onslaught the latter goes niche into entertainment and music while FB proves a better connector and communication tool. The fabulous Anne Kennedy of Beyond Ink gave...

A light-hearted look at one option!

At the International Search Summit a couple of weeks ago, the post lunch session was all about online marketing howlers. The brief for the panel was to tell stories where companies had got their digital strategies outrageously wrong, and demonstrate the...

I'm 36! I don't have a Faceparty account but if I did I would be about to be frog marched off their premises for being too old... Marketing Week reports that government legislation has forced them into a corner because they can't check addresses...

The BBC has continued to impress with its embracing of new technologies by having the Test Match Special team Twittering from the boundary... I'm in Seattle at the mo and am listening to the 1st Test commentary over the internet and am now following...

Nice piece yesterday in the Sunday Times showing how the internet is no longer just the place for spotty male geeks to gather. Not that that stereotype is necessarily warranted, but check out how Libby Purves referred to my blog a few months back!!! The...

Finally got around to reading Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point , and what a fascinating read it is, especially if you apply the theories and models to this "advanced" internet age (it was written in 2000.) One passage really stood out...

Just seen Johnny Chatterton, a student from Leeds University, on BBC Breakfast talking about his Facebook Group - Support the Monks' protest in Burma. Given the internet has been shut down over there, this is an incredible example of how people, 80k...

It seems the post Summer weeks are the favourite time for agency summits, conferences, internal all-hands, agency days and client share-alls! After a quiet spell in the sunshine, I find myself with 6 presentations in two weeks at all-day events. I'm...

Hot off the server, this new site is bound to improve John McCririck’s social life! Nothing to do with the gee gees, Tipped.co.uk is well thought out social-networking cum local-search offering that works wonderfully on your mobile phone too –...

Is Facebook the new Google? Can Microsoft Content Ads catch Google Adsense? Why you should use all three search engines? All pertinent questions raised here today in California at Search Engine Strategies. Read on if you want some answers from our US...