Category: Internet
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10 Things You Shouldn’t Do…
…but people seem to do all the time just now. Please don’t do any of these things. You just look a bit sad. 10. Mention on Twitter how many followers you now have. I don’t really care. 9. Produce an iPhone version of your site, but not bother with a generic mobile version. 8. Get…
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Social Networking Statistics Reporting
A couple of weeks ago Ofcom published its annual Communications Market Report which nicely distils lots of UK media research into one place (albeit a 334 page “place”). The report noted that social networking is “growing more slowly than previously.” This isn’t perhaps all that surprising since at some point services like Facebook run out…
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Webby Awards
I see that the Webby Awards have been announced, and thank goodness, because I’m bored to tears with them. The problem is that they still have this daft “People’s Voice Winner,” voted for by the public, in every category alongside the “Webby Award Winner” which is voted for by the illustrious sounding “The International Academy…
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Streetmaps in London
Google Streetmaps has launched in London, and I was keen to see if I featured. A few months ago I saw the Google car taking photos: But sadly, it wasn’t taking pictures on Glasshouse Street where I saw it. View Larger Map The above photo was taken in front of the Jewel nightclub at the…
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Google Ad Preferences
So the big question: is Google’s new advertising initiative actually as bad as Phorm? Sir Tim Berners-Lee doesn’t like it, and neither do I. Do I really have to visit this site from every browser I use to opt out? That’s not something I appreciate. This site is also worth visiting. I understand how advertising…
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Digital Britain
One of the most interesting documents likely to be published in the UK in the next few months is Lord Stephen Carter’s Digital Britain report. The draft report is due to be published by the end of this month, and it’s likely to cover things like public service, broadband and digital radio. The recent DRWG…
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Internet Retailing At Christmas
Let me first apologise for mentioning Christmas while we’re still in November. I take no pleasure in bringing forward a retailing period that’s already appearing far too early, and is very occassionally considered a religious festival (for goodness sake, a man died today in a stampede at 5am in Walmart in New York). As someone…
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Irony Layered on Irony
There’s a new series of The IT Crowd starting this week on Channel 4. Hurrah! In the last series, one of the episodes opened with Roy and Moss sitting down to watch a DVD. We then saw a brilliant mock DVD piracy advert to warn viewers of how bad the criminals you’re supporting are if…
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Kangaroo: The State of Play
These are interesting times for Kanagroo – the BBC Worldwide/ITV/C4 joint venture that, simply put, is supposed to do for commercial (and commercially sold) TV, what the iPlayer does for the BBC. Last week Ashley Highfield quite the consortium after four months, having moved across from the BBC mothership to take charge. And a long…
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INQ1
I got invited along to the launch of a mobile phone the other day – the INQ1 (pronounced “Ink”). But just calling it a mobile phone is a bit harsh – it’s more of a communications device than anything. It comes from a new company who are looking to target people for who iPhones, Blackberrys,…
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Radio At The Edge
Apologies upfront for the rawness of this text. I’ll tidy it up later. To Radio at the Edge (where there’s some free WiFi), to hear about the latest goings on in the audio world. After introductions from James Cridland, and an opening from Nick Wallis, a familiar face – to me at least – Clive…
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Change of Address
This is a kind of “sister” post to something James Cridland wrote earlier this week on his blog. He was talking about the email that my employer is currently sending out to people who are still using our old virginradio.co.uk domain. But of course he’s only seeing half the story. At work, our IT department…
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Online Privacy
A couple of weeks ago, I started playing with Geode – a Firefox plugin that allows your browser to use geolocation technology to determine whereabouts you are. When you reach a Geode compatable site, a bar at the top of the browser asks you how much information you want to pass to the requesting site…