Mahalo: Human (Ego) Powered Search Engine
Jason Calacanis is a well known personality in the internet sector. He has done everything from running a newspaper during the original dot com boom, to founding blogging network Weblogs (which he later sold to AOL). His latest project is a human powered search engine called Mahalo (it’s Hawaiian for ‘thank you’).
Calacanis prepared for this […]
Who Is Big Brother?
Although it seems like only a couple of weeks ago since the last series ended, it would appear that Big Brother is back. Yes, in what is now a better indicator of the imminent start of the British summer than washed out test matches, the new series of Big Brother started last night.
Being the search […]
last.fm The First Music Network To Be Sold
Maybe it was my post about how I preferred last.fm to Pandora which did it, but whatever it was, mainstream media have finally got round to snapping up music networking sites in their trawl of Web 2.0. These are the sites that allow users to discover new music via the tastest& listening habits of their […]
The 100 Best Technology Products. Really?
PC World has released a list of the 100 Best Products of 2007 and despite the fact that it feels a little premature seeing as it’s not even June yet it makes interesting reading. Whilst a lot of it is too geeky even for me, I though I’d pull out a few of the more […]
Typo Squatters and the Madeleine McCann Search
The Evening Standard reported on Saturday that a number of online publishers (and I use the term lightly) are attempting to cash in on the Madeleine McCann Search by registering a range of different domain names similar to the Missing Madeleine site. These sites then make money by providing links for people who have stumbled […]
180 Solutions have lost the plot by suing PC Tools
It’s been reported that Zango (formally known as 180 solutions) have filled a lawsuit against Spyware Doctor owners PC Tools. Apparently they are a little frustrated that the Spyware removal program, shipped free with Google Pack, is removing their application without first warning the user and are claiming millions in damages for it […]
Has UGC Killed The Radio Star?
Last week saw the anouncement by radio station Xfm that it was to get rid of all DJs on its shows between the hours of 10am & 4pm. Their managing director Nick Davidson said of the move,
Our listeners are used to being able to control what they watch or listen to as these days people […]
What Will People Do To Win £10k?
Earlier in the week I wrote about the competition being run by Brylcreem, where they are offering £10,000 and a starring role in their ad, to the man who submits the video to the Brylcreem MySpace page which is considered to best epitomise the phrase effortless.
Well, they’re definitely starting to get some interest now, and […]
If you don’t have Web Analytics installed you really are crazy
It really does surprise me that so many companies still have no form of web analytics installed on their sites and moreover the amount of companies that have it installed but do not spent time analysing the data made available to them.
In the past I’ve worked for large organisations turning over millions and they […]
A Practical Example of Affiliate Marketing with Widgets
If you’re reading this blog then the chances are you know what widgets are and you may well have heard it suggested that 2007 would be the “Year of the Widget”. We’re a big fan of them here at eyefall but it’s often been suggested that they are just “nice to haves” and […]
