Why LinkedIn Is Likely To Cost More Than MySpace
TechCrunch have posted some new data from comScore, showing US traffic to the main social media sites (although there are some notable exceptions such as YouTube, Orkut & Bebo - the latter presumably because they are bigger internationally than in the USA). And whilst a lot of it is relatively unsurprising, there was something that […]
Google Overtakes ITV Revenue: You Heard It Here First
A report by The Times has suggested that Google’s surge in revenues, which we reported recently, means that the search giant has overtaken ITV’s revenues for the first time. Whilst I wouldn’t like to boast, this is exactly what we predicted back in August when we suggested that 2007 would be the year that Google’s […]
Secret Skype Conversation Leaked…
The Guardian has published “an amazing Skype Instant Messenger transcript” which seems to detail a conversation between Meg Whitman, eBay CEO, and Skype founder Niklas Zennstrom. It makes for fascinating reading.
@megwhitman: um, need to say something. You remember we paid $1.6bn for Skype and promised you up to $1.7bn in earnouts and other things for […]
London’s Wi-Fi Mile
Anybody who’s spent an afternoon walking around Upper Street, iBook in hand, trying to log on to Islington council’s “Technology Mile” service may smirk, but a new report says Londoners are the most wifi-happy people on the planet.
According to the Wi-Fi Hotspot Index, networks set up by the likes of BT and The Cloud in […]
Microsoft To Take Stake In Facebook: Is It To Keep Google At Bay?
There are reports this morning that Microsoft is planning to take a 5% stake in Facebook which would value the social networking site at $10 billion. This is quite an increase on the $7 billion that was mentioned in the last round of rumours surrounding Facebook, and makes the $1 billion that Yahoo! apparently offered […]
Jakob Nielsen Doesn’t Understand Blogs
Usability ‘guru’ Jakob Nielsen has written a blog post article on his blog news section entitled Write Articles, Not Blog Posts. Essentially he argues that businesses should not ‘waste’ their time writing short blog posts, but should instead invest time in creating high quality content (i.e. long articles).
There’s a good discussion over on the Guardian […]
Why New Media Isn’t New Anymore
I’ve been meaning to write-up some more notes from the recent Online Marketing Show for a while now, but just haven’t had the time. But what I can do, is look at how some of the issues it raised are reflected in the real world.
One of the speakers at the OMS, on the Highly Recommended […]
Online Marketing Show(s) Continued Growth
Centaur Media’s Online Marketing Show has released some interesting research which shows that online continues to be the place to be in terms of investment in marketing. It follows on from the IAB’s figures showing that online spend topped £2 billion in 2006.
The most interesting figures from the research (IMO) were:
20% of respondents spend more […]
eyefall, Meme & DC Interact: Altogether Now
Today is a momentous one for all of us here at eyefall, as it marks the start of a new phase in our business. As of today we will be part of a new full-service digital agency called Altogether. The launch of the new agency coincides with the acquisition of digital design & build agency […]
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 […]
