Soaring Profits or Wishful Thinking?

A new report from eMarketer pub­lished yes­terday suggests that advert­ising spending on social networks will soar over the next four years. Worldwide revenues over $2bn are pre­dicted in 2010. The report suggests that the most main­stream sites, dom­in­ated by MySpace, will grab the largest share of this revenue.

It’s not entirely clear

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Beneath the Surface

I did an inter­view with Stewart Manley, CTO of Mediasurface, yes­terday. The company makes Content Management software for pro­du­cing business websites, whether they be internet, intranet or extranet sites. Their cus­tomers tend to be quite heavy­weight, such as the Environment Agency, NATO, Oxford University Press, and SSA Global. A far cry, in other words, from

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Vox Populi?

Nice inter­view on Techcrunch about Vox, the new social network/​​blog platform from SixApart. I have to confess that I didn’t really see the point of Vox when it first appeared, given the exist­ence of all the other social networks out there. SixApart’s Andrew Anker explains:

More import­antly to Vox, we believe there is very

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Thieving Scumbags

Got my mobile phone stolen by some pasty-​​​​faced charver who approached me for a cigar­ette while I was sat outside a cafe in Richmond. Giving fags to the poor and needy is one of the very few char­it­able acts I reg­u­larly engage in. However, it seems my urban outreach pro­gramme may need a rethink if they’re going nick your mobile

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