By Ian, on July 28th, 2006 Yesterday, I spoke with Mark Opzoomer. Mark was the MD of Yahoo! Europe between 2001 and 2003. Now he’s involved in a number of ventures, but I was talking to him about his participation with Garlik. Garlik is set to launch as an online privacy service later this year. The idea is that they’ll scour the web Continue reading Watching the watchmen By Ian, on July 26th, 2006 Online world Second Life is to have its own business magazine, SL Business. A flurry of magazines have been launched around ebay to cater to those wishing to create their own business around the auction site. In a similar way, members of the Second Life community are keen to join the likes of Anshe Chung, Continue reading Second business By Ian, on July 24th, 2006 If you aren’t already a fan of The Show, then this post about Wal*Mart’s utterly despicable ‘School Your Way’ p***-poor social network ought to be enough to convert you: Fashion is so my favourite thing NB: The Wal*Mart site seems to detect wannabe satirists like me and you trying to set up Continue reading Winning hearts and minds By Ian, on July 10th, 2006 According to a study reported in PhysicsWeb, research into online readership showed that news stories on the internet have an extremely short lifespan: “The average half-life of a news item is just 36 hours, or one and a half days after it is released.” That is to say, a story will be read half as frequently after 36 hours. The Continue reading Missed the news? It’s gone By Ian, on July 7th, 2006 Just a quickie update. Jason Calacanis of Weblogs Inc. wrote his own take on social news sites and crowd behaviour therein back in March. He explains how untrue stories with a catchy title can very easily become widely disseminated. On the plus side, though, having thousands of editors also means that these stories are exposed Continue reading Social news not the same as ‘the news’ | About this BlogSocial tools, devices and web evolution are creating epochal change in media, society and business. The plan is to hide under the floorboards till it’s all over document some of the interesting parts of that change. More…. |
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