While the UK slept last night, it appears there was some sort of sporting tournament across the Atlantic and that the world’s most-used search provider advertised its search capabilities and new(ish) browser. It’s quite a nice advert, telling a (cliched) story in an original manner with a clean style. The excitement over Google advertising Chrome and [...]
December 8, 2009
Life just got better. At the end of last week, Google announced that its personalised search had now become available to ‘signed-out’ users. What does that mean? Well, personalised search means that Google uses its history of what you have searched for before to provide more relevant results for subsequent search queries. It records everything you’ve searched [...]
December 4, 2009
I mentioned this a couple of posts back. Delete discusses ‘The Virtues of Forgetting in the Digital Age’. Unfortunately, I couldn’t attend but the RSA has – as always – made the audio of the talk available to everyone. See the link below for details. Google remembers everything we’ve searched for and when. Potentially humiliating content [...]
November 19, 2008
1. Send it to everyone you know. 2. Make a Google Maps mash-up out of the data. Much of socialmedialand was rubbing its hands with glee this morning at the news that the British National Party’s membership list had been leaked on the Internet and was freely available for anyone to download. A lot of people were [...]
October 30, 2008
Gabe Rivera, the creator of Techmeme, is either a PR genius or so nice that I am flummoxed. After my last post, trashing his service, he tweeted: Techmeme readers overlooking TheReg & Guardian’s homepages should know what they’re missing, says @iandelaney: http://bit.ly/19rsap I agree. And I guess that this is why I owe a not-quite retraction. Techmeme is [...]
October 29, 2008
From the Merriam Webster entry: Main Entry: re·cid·i·vist Pronunciation: -vist Function: noun Etymology: French récidiviste, from récidiver to relapse, from Middle French, from Medieval Latin recidivare, from Latin recidivus recurring, from recidere to fall back, from re- + cadere to fall Earlier this evening, I made what some might describe as an immoderate comment on Twitter. To whit, when my [...]
October 7, 2008
I’ve been thinking about the future of newspapers a fair bit over the last few weeks, because we’ve been preparing a panel event on just that topic. It’s involved a range of reading and on-record and off-record conversations with a load of people involved with newspapers – readers, editors, pundits and the man on the [...]
October 4, 2008
[This post is rather obviously out-of-date.] The most radical change you’ll see if you get to the site, rather than read it on RSS, is that it’s single-column. That cuts out a lot of the stuff that was here before, e.g.: recent comments blogroll widgets So to tackle those: Recent Comments: To be honest, I write this blog as a semi-continuous [...]
March 8, 2008
So, apparently Internet Explorer 8 is available for download, according to my twitter colleagues and a certain Mister Gates. But don’t search for ‘ie8′ with Google, because you’ll get this: One half of the screen is a search for news about ie8. The next suggests that I was probably searching for IE7. None of the remaining four [...]
February 4, 2008
Fake Steve Jobs is rather more concise than me: The Borg-Yahoo merger won’t work. Here’s why. It’s like taking the two guys who finished second and third in a 100-yard dash and tying their legs together and asking for a rematch, believing that now they’ll run faster.
February 1, 2008
So Microsoft has tendered a bid to buy Yahoo! for $44.6bn. I understand that Microsoft has to do something to build on its web strategy/presence. No-one uses Live Search, Live Spaces, or any of the rest. (OK. About one percent of people do). To build up any future trade for advertising, web services or development platforms, [...]
January 4, 2008
If you were a brand manager for an FMCG company – let’s say you look after Bostik, for the sake of argument – what would you be doing when it comes to your online strategy? Well, you’d probably try to work out how Google works. You want to come top of the search results for things [...]
February 8, 2010