It’s a bad week for the interwebs, kids, first there was the terrible, awful, butt-achingly bad idea that was Cuil (see below for proof, facts, evidence etc etc) and now the assorted tools, reactionaries and soulless party hacks who make up the Culture, Media and Sport committee in the UK Parliament have decided that the [...]
Entries from July 2008
400th Post: MP’s actually use phrase “the internet’s dark side”. No, really.
July 31st, 2008 by Dan O'Connor · 1 Comment
In Brand innovation · Stories
Cuil: Sort of an IUD for teh Interwebs
July 29th, 2008 by Dan O'Connor · 3 Comments
In Stories
I’ve given it a day and Cuil the soi-dissant Anti-Google still sucks. From the choice of black as the background color (”See? we are the anti-google! Black! To their white!!!” ) through to the inescapable fact that it doesn’t really work, it sucks. All day, everytime I needed to google something, I forced my [...]
Facebook Connect: Good Times, Bad Times
July 26th, 2008 by Iain MacMillan · No Comments
In Stories
I’m using a song lyric in each of my blog post titles this week. I promise I’ll stop next week.
A quick overview of some of the commentary I’ve been reading on Facebook Connect - from ReadWriteWeb, Gottaquirk and Jeremiah Owyang. Here’s the quote:
Facebook Connect will allow corporate websites to allow users to authenticate, interact, and [...]
The New Google Trends and AdPlanner
July 22nd, 2008 by Maggie · 1 Comment
In Stories
Our friends at Infectious Media have done some digging on the new Google AdPlanner and Google Trends for Websites that were announced this week.
The Google Trends for Web Sites acts as a more stripped down version of Alexa, but like Alexa, will only work for high traffic web sites, and even then, only some have [...]
Keep on rollin’ rollin’, Rolando…
July 21st, 2008 by Iain MacMillan · 1 Comment
In Brand innovation · Gaming · Mobile · Stories
Not just an excuse for a Limp Bizkit lyrical reference, Rolando is the forthcoming iPhone game from our very good friends at Handcircus. Fresh from their coverage in the Guardian, their YouTube views are now over 88k.
New phone, new app store, new games…the amount of buzz around many things iphone-related is increasing rapidly.