Watching the watchmen

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

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Second business

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,

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Winning hearts and minds

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

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Missed the news? It’s gone

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

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Social news not the same as ‘the news’

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

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