PaidContent is reporting that Ziff Davis is the latest in a line of publishers to close a magazine, in this case PCMag, and go online only. It's an accelerating trend. The site says that Ziff Davis, which recently came out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy, will focus on growing PCMag's online network...
When Cisco announced disastrous last quarter sales today, the stock market took a nosedive... Yeah, I know, it's been doing that for days. But the problem with the Cisco news is that this is not only a bell-weather for other technology stocks, it's also a sharp stick in the eye for all the digital...
I'm only saying this as if you didn't already know it "thinking outside the box" is officially the most annoying buzzword and marketing departments are the number one buzzword offenders. Research from MWB Business Exchange shows that not only is it the most annoying of buzzwords, which...
A couple of weeks ago The Search Works asked me to kick off their client summit – The Search Sessions – at the fabulous Vinopolis by the river in London. Honoured as I was, I thought it both polite and in my interest to stay on for the rest of the day and hear the other speakers. Very often I learn a...
Are you fed up with Google choosing which links it thinks you should have on your homepage. If not, you should be! Wouldn't it be great if you could access all of your Favourites from any computer - work, home, PDA etc? Maybe somewhere that was personalised to you, where you chose what you liked...
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...
You have to laugh at the news today that a major Yahoo shareholder has asked for a review of how its votes were cast in last week's re-election of the company's board, raising questions about whether the opposition to the directors may have been understated. Capital Research's manager, Gordon...
The issue of piracy and illegal downloads has been a huge problem since the early days of the internet. The ease with which music tracks can be streamed and downloaded illegally has meant that countless web users evade paying for albums. The topic of illegal downloads has caused something of a rift in...
