Entries from May 2007

Dept. of Inevitability: Twitter

May 17th, 2007 by Dan O'Connor · 2 Comments
In Stories

And so, as the steamroller of fate rolls ineluctably towards the one-legged dog of destiny, I find myself blogging about Twitter.
Are you, like Labour Deputy Leadership hopeful, Alan Johnson MP, a member of the Twittering classes? Or are you, like me, much more entertained by childish typos like this one?
What am I doing right now? [...]

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Industrial Spam

May 16th, 2007 by Mat Morrison · 3 Comments
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Living, as we (and most of you) do in a post-industrial society, the spam we receive is related to:
- service industries (financial products and the like - in fact as some of you will recall, the first spammers were lawyers)
- leisure & entertainment (mostly travel & sex)
- high tech, high R&D investment, IP-reliant industries (mostly [...]

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links for 2007-05-15

May 15th, 2007 by Mat Morrison · No Comments
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Crazy Egg
Yet another visitor tracking and visualisation tool. We’re using Clicktale right now, but may have to do a quick preview on this one, too.
(tags: traffic analysis analytics web tool tools)

BarbieGirls BETA
Hey girl, we’re in BETA! (what’s “beta”?)
(tags: kids community)

Screen Digest
Global research & stats on audiovisual markets: covering TV, broadband, interactive entertainment, Cinema
(tags: business analysis [...]

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Your User Generated Content is not very useable, mortal.

May 15th, 2007 by Dan O'Connor · 5 Comments
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Despite the fact that “usability” is not a very usable word, Jakob Nielsen has declared (because when you are an EXPERT you get to declare things. The rest of us merely get to suggest. Maybe you should have worked harder at school, huh?) that all the excitement surrounding web 2.0 (dunno, never heard of it, [...]

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links for 2007-05-14

May 14th, 2007 by Mat Morrison · No Comments
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SEOmoz’s Web 2.0 Awards
Brilliant piece of linkbait! But an excellent catalogue of the Web 2.0 explosion
(tags: web2 reviews resource)

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