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...
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...
There's a really interesting article in BusinessWeek that spells out exactly why Twitter will never make money. Readers of AdScam , will know I've been hammering away about this for months. Not only do I not want to know what time you went to the bathroom this morning, I certainly don't want...
