I rang a friend of mine (male) and gushed that I was quoted in a Web 2.0 article in May’s edition of Vogue Australia (Is your life better online? by Cathrin Schaer). He rang me back a little bit later, most miffed. “There’s NO photos of you, and the magazine is full of ADS!!” Bless….
Sticking it here on blog because I don’t want to lose it again: $7.4 billion was spent on search engine marketing in 2005 (16% of which was business-to-business). More than 40% of the average marketer’s budget is devoted to search. Nearly 38% of Yahoo’s advertisers are defined as b-to-b. More than 50% of Google’s target…
My new addiction is googlesightseeing – why bother seeing the world for real? – people send him Google satellite images of people and places around the earth doing crazy things. One of a guy peeing in the desert in Africa (thrilling discussion here), “keeping up with the Joneses” (rows and rows of long piers in…
I’m looking for examples of groovy Vertical Search services. Sidestep is one for travel We search over 150 travel websites to bring you the very best travel values on the web. Another would be oodle for classifieds (MySpider in Australia?): Oodle makes it easy to use online classifieds. We bring together loads of listings from…
some of the many many many faces of flickrOriginally uploaded by fubuki. I wrote a couple of days ago how the war between the traditional search types (how funny to say that now, ten years on) and the new social media search evangelists. It’s been on the boil for a while, but search: social media…
In case you can’t read this banner, it says: Following IKEA News and Gossip For The Buckeye State Since 2004: Because Its Okay To Have Your Couch Be Cooler Than You Are.Students in my class laugh at me when I go on and on and on about IKEA. I guess I tried to pick a…
New Zealand Web 2.0/CMS company SilverStripe have made the grade! Google’s Summer of Code 2007 is a bunch of students being paid to develop for open source. Here’s SilverStripe’s blog on it all: Google Summer of Code 2007: We Are In! Posted by Sigurd on 15 March 2007 We are proud to say that Google…
This is from the esteemed Tim O’Reilly’s blog (wiki him here) called O’Reilly Radar: SF Chronicle in Trouble? I hate to play Valleywag, but I’m hearing rumors that the San Francisco Chronicle is in big trouble. Apparently, Phil Bronstein, the editor-in-chief, told staff in a recent “emergency meeting” that the news business “is broken, and…
I’ve spoken a number of times that Google’s patent need to create massive backend services is short sighted, and their unwillingness to move heavily into peer2peer solutions is outdated. Maybe it’s just the thought of acres and acres (literally) of hard drives that creeps me out. Usually I am talking in reference to Google Search…
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