BBC Diggs Social Media, But Doesn’t Seem To Get It
Last August I wrote about how happy I was to see that the BBC had added social bookmarking chicklets to all of their stories as it suggested that they really understood the way the world of new media works.
Unfortunately it would seem like I was being slightly naive as Patrick Altoft has found what looks […]
Live Diggnation (No, Really) In Amsterdam
At The Next Web Conference 2008 the cult podcast Diggnation will be doing its second Live show outside the USA, the first being in London at FOWA last year (just to clarify, by live I mean in front of an audience, as opposed to just from a sidewalk somewhere).
If you don’t know what Diggnation is, […]
If The Times Are Link Spamming, They’re Missing The Point
The Guardian has reported an investigation which suggests that an employee of Sitelynx, a search marketing firm working for Time Online, has been engaging in some good old fashioned link spamming.
It suggests that Piotr Wyspianski has been ruthlessly promoting content from Times Online on sites such as social search engine Mahalo (which I’ve written about […]
Earth Touch: It’s Like Attenborough 2.0
A message on Facebook this morning from an old school friend prompted me to have another look at the site he has set-up in his new home of South Africa. I say that so that there are no doubts about the fact that I know the guys running it; that being said, I wouldn’t write […]
Advertising & Marketing Trends for 2008 & Beyond
So I’m sure that there are lots of these sort of posts - the top lists, the best of… I know that Ciaran wrote about Top 7 lists being better than top 10s too, but this is some general thinking about what Altogether Digital will hope to achieve and drive forwards for their client work […]
New Batman Dark Knight Marketing Continues. Fantastic!
Film marketing 07/08 has been so much fun! I’m thinking particularly of two films; Batman “Dark Knight” and Cloverfield, although the image above, from the marketing arm (sorry!) of Death Proof is pretty cool too.
I could talk at length about J. J. Abrams‘ Cloverfield film (also known as 1-18-08 or variations thereof) but there’s never […]
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 […]
Viral Marketing Presentation From SMX London
Last Friday saw me present at the inaugural SMX London on the panel Linkbaiting & Viral Marketing. A number of people asked me to share my presentation online, so I’ve uploaded it onto SlideShare. Meanwhile, as you can’t click through from SlideShare presentations, I’ve presented thevarious individual slides, with notes, below.
For those wanting the full […]
OpenSocial: It’s All About The Context, Stupid
It’s been almost impossible to miss the news leaking out about the launch of Google’s new OpenSocial platform this week, as the names of those networks involved continued to grow. OpenSocial aims to mimic the success of Facebook’s developer platform (although no-one at Google is likely to admit as much) by allowing developers access to […]
The Future Of Search? It’s 4D Isn’t It?
People in our industry are often asked what they think the next developments will be in the growth of the internet, and in particular, search. Well, using the example of how frustrating a recent car journey was, I think I can probably make a pretty good guess.
Historically search has been two-dimensional; what I mean by […]
