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Digital Landscape - Native Online Population in China and America

I read an article from The Economist about the differences between American and Chinese internet usage and how comfortable one (16-25 year old) population was with online, digital interaction.
It’s interesting to think that in the not very distant future, the Chinese are going to take over the world. They’re already one of the most industrial […]

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Come To SMX London & Save 10%

Following the sessions that James Little & I spoke at at the recent a4u Expo, I will be speaking at SMX London next week. I’ll be talking about Link Baiting & Viral Marketing on an esteemed panel which includes Jane Copland from SEOmoz & Thomas Bindl.
If Jane’s presentations are anywhere near as engaging as her […]

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The End Of The Internet Is Nigh

Ever wondered what would happen if you ‘finished’ the web? If you read every single page, and looked at every single piece of content? Well if you ask Google to tell you what the scenario looks like, it will probably drive you to this site - The End Of The Internet. The text on the […]

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WikiScanner: Outing Wikipedia Spammers For Link Bait

You may have read recently about the companies which have been caught editing articles on Wikipedia which deal with their business. A new site called WikiScanner will trawl through anonymous edits on Wikipedia and match them with corporate IP addresses; whilst not all of these edits will be spam (some may be workers editing pages […]

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UNIQLOCK: Is Beauty Better Link Bait Than Functionality?

Earlier today, our resident trend spotter Chungaiz sent me a link to a new(ish) website from UNIQLO, the Japanese clothes retailer.
It’s called UNICLOCK and is essentially a site that allows bloggers to have a flash-animated clock widget on their blog, which details the current time as well as the location of the blogger. It also […]

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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 […]

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