Updated: Sony owns up: From MediaPost: Sony Wednesday released a statement acknowledging that the blog was phony. “Sony Computer Entertainment America developed alliwantforxmasisapsp.com as a humorous site targeting those interested in getting a PSP system this holiday season,” it read. “We’ve now added a posting that provides this clarification to consumers visiting the site.” The company [...]
December 13, 2006
The Attention Company has released details of a poll revealing that people are surprisingly relaxed about sharing information over the Internet. The company speculates that since the Second World War, privacy has become commonplace leading to a sense of anonymity and alienation in modern society. The Internet and blogging offers an opportunity for people to [...]
December 12, 2006
Something very odd is happening in Paris. A number of prominent bloggers (plus the likes of Ewan, Antony, Ian and Simon :-P) have all turned up for the Le Web 3 conference. But it seems that any talk about blogs, Web 2.0, startups and so forth has been curtailed by the appearance of former Israeli [...]
December 12, 2006
There’s a report in the (London) Times about the sudden popularity of social networking site Piczo in the UK over a period of just 12 months: …since last December this networking website for teenagers has grown eightfold, increasing its number of users from 1.2m to 10.5m, with nearly 4m in Britain alone. Four million users in a [...]
December 11, 2006
Yes, I am posting about the meaning of Web 2.0 again. I’d stop if other people would. Promise. Anyway, Tim O’Reilly – someone I normally agree with – has posted a new ‘compact’ definition of the term. Strangely, this is actually a longer definition than the first one in some respects. That’s because it’s a prescriptive [...]
December 10, 2006
One of the finalists of the 2006 UK Weblog Awards is JonnyB’s private secret diary, a sensationally funny blog I really recommend. As Mister B says: I would love it – love it – if all the earnest blogging new meeja paradigm types saw the results and thought: ‘WTF? The best blog in the UK is [...]
December 10, 2006
Another new theme, this time based on Cutline by Chris Pearson. Old theme seemed very slow to load pages. Needless to say, I will be messing up this theme till it’s twice as slow as the last one. Have already managed to add an extra image and three external calls to every page load. Let [...]
December 9, 2006
Philipp Lenssen has put together a list of common queries found through Google Suggest, the service that autocompletes your search queries based on popular searches. Google is pretty good, but I reckon people’s expectations might be a tad too high. Is love … … real? … a fancy or a feeling? … enough? … blind? … a choice? How [...]
December 8, 2006
Heather Hopkins posts on the rise of UK rocker Lil’ Chris (the short kid in the second series of Rock School, UK TV viewers) from a search engine perspective and showing the impact of social networks. The graph really says it all: There’s little to add to Heather’s excellent post, which I just wanted to draw [...]
December 8, 2006
StoryCrafter, Edelman’s version of a social media press release service, has attracted a fair amount of attention. There’s no lack of good comments already out there, but the subject’s interesting to me, so I thought I’d pitch in too. First a round-up: Social media press releases are designed to give journalists and bloggers the elements of a [...]
December 7, 2006
Blogging Asia: A Windows Live Report shows that blogging is already a significant force in Asia. Haven’t been able to find the original report online, but I’ve been able to piece together the following from here, here and here. 46% of the online population in Asia have a blog (compared to just 8% of US web [...]
December 6, 2006
The UK’s best-known website auditing firm, ABCe, will move to measuring unique users instead of page impressions as its mandatory measurement metric. Page impressions have come under fire as a metric for several reasons, not least the ability to fake results by splitting a story over several pages. This is good news for professional blogs: Because [...]
December 13, 2006