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...
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...
Interesting post on Techcrunch asking if Twitter is becoming more like MySpace, which wants to be more like Facebook which…wants to be more like Twitter. Well life's a smorgasbord. Written by Mrinal Desai, an early employee of LinkedIn, he lists some pretty good reasons why Twitter is becoming MySpace...
An historic election and a welcome historic victory for Barack Obama that was called online by some of the big political blogs and news sites before the US TV networks, which having been burned by exit polls in 2000 and 2004 took the cautious route. There's already been an avalanche written about...
There are so many ways to follow the US election tonight, but one proving really popular is Twitter. Twittervotereport.com gives constant updates from across the US while the polls are open including the current length of queues, which has been one eye opening features of this very exciting US election...
The Barack Obama campaign is an unprecedented advertising and marketing machine that is now running four times as many ads as John McCain. It has also been the most diverse and smart marketing campaign we've ever seen in politics, or elsewhere for that matter, and no surprise that he has been named...
