Readers of my US blog, AdScam , where informed yesterday that I have given up on Twitter. Why? Because in the last few days, I have had dozens of emails from very pissed off people asking why I am bombarding them with shitty emails flogging everything from insurance to condoms. Obviously someone has...
Did you happen to read the amazing interview in Monday’s Wall Street Journal with Jeff Horing, co-founder of Insight Venture Partners, a New York private-equity firm that was the lead investor in Twitter’s third and latest fund-raising round? These are the geezers who just pumped in $100 million in funding...
I know the job scene in the ad biz is pretty bad over there, over here it’s desperate. And with the news out of the holding companies of their continuing drastic losses of income and declining profits, you know it’s only going to get worse. Particularly when the magic answer to all their problems is...
In case you hadn’t realized it, I am a multi-tasking, uber-achieving prince of the blogosphere… Meaning that apart from writing this occasional blog for BrandRepublic, I also write a US blog, and manage to bore the *** out of people with various articles and books. The rest of the time I drink, smoke...
Readers of both my blogs will know that I am far from being a fan of Twitter, and I’m not even on Facebook any more because I’ve been hacked twice and had to put up with a lot of very pissed off people who think I’ve been bombarding them with spam. I never was on MySpace, because that seems to be inhabited...
As readers of this blog, and perhaps my US one, AdScam , may have noticed, I am not a fan of Twitter, and increasingly, I am becoming less and less enamored of FaceBook. Not because they blithely assume they can take my quirks, foibles, preferences and general information, then sell all that valuable...
I’ve been to Sweden quite a lot and it’s certainly not one of the places you think of when considering which country is most likely to be the home of big time criminals… So I had to laugh when I read that the four guys behind Pirate Bay, the world’s best known service for illegally sharing music, movies...
In another pathetic attempt to start making serious money, Facebook has come up with yet another dumb f**king idea. They are testing a new virtual gift product that allows users to give “credits” to other users. The idea is that you can give other users these credits in addition to or in lieu of commenting...
Everyone seems to be getting their knickers in a twist about the redesign of Facebook... Seems like it's a bit too close to Twitter for some peoples tastes. Personally, I think they're both a complete waste of time... I'm sure that's going to piss a lot of people off, but really I'm...
Not being a huge fan of Facebook, and the millions of people I have never heard of who want to be my friend and poke me, I was amused to read that just as in the US, Facebook users in Europe will no longer be able to waste their time on "Scrabulous" — the online imitation of the Scrabble board...
