Some interesting research from 360i questions what we mean by privacy with Brandchannel discussing the research using the phrase “Twitter takes the private space public” and the use of Twitter by large corporate brands. In addition to the research 360i released a slide deck summary below. Twitter & the Consumer-Marketer Dynamic View more presentations from [...]
Yahoo! Japan selected Google as its search partner in Japan. It is suggested by commentators that this is contrary to how the parent company handled things. But let’s review: Microsoft won the Yahoo! search business only after: an attempted hostile takeover (though its arguable Microsoft was that serious about it as Yahoo!’s position as lead [...]
I wrote a quick analysis of non-monetary options that Jeremy Hunt can use to improve the quality and coverage of broadband in the UK for Left Foot Forward: Hunt for super-fast broadband covers some of the concepts that I had been thinking about for a while: Addressing the disparity between business rates charged for optical [...]
Today’s Financial Times has an article covering Mark Zuckenberg’s presentation at the Cannes Lions advertising festival. In it Zuckenberg talked about four countries that Facebook doesn’t have a lead in: Japan, South Korea, Russia and the People’s Republic of China. The authors seem to think that Zuckenberg’s remarks about ‘Now for the first time we [...]
Mary Meeker became famous as a dot.com era analyst alongside peers Jack Grubman and Henry Blodget. Unlike Grubman and Blodget she managed to avoid being thrown under the wheels of the bus, so is now the elder stateswoman of the digital economy. Mary and her team at Morgan Stanley put together good thoughtful state-of-the-nation presentations. [...]
Earlier this week I pulled together a summary of the three main parties manifestos versus the pledge that Tom Watson gave to his constituents in West Bromwich East for Left Foot Forward. Manifestos are by nature wide, but shallow documents so I didn’t expect them to go into digital issues in a terribly great depth. [...]
I wrote what is likely to be my last piece on the Digital Economy Act until after the election today for Left Foot Forward. Looking at the sentiment online and the kind of initiatives unveiled by members of the public this seems to have finally started to catch fire in the public’s imagination reminiscent of [...]
I tried 2chan.net earlier on today to have a poke around and see if I could find any memes to write about here. Unfortunately the site is down. According to a Japanese newspaper article, it is due to Korean cyberwarriors who took down the iconic site because it some of the forum posters had complained [...]
Up until very recently ‘super-standards’ like Internet Explorer for Windows-only features that plugged into .Net frameworks made using some corporate electronics services like banking a pain-in-the-ass. In fact, I still don’t do electronic banking because my bank of choice thinks that user experience should be the digital equivalent of Hellraiser’s cenobites that said bank probably [...]
The tech headlines were dominated after Christmas day with tales of Amazon’s spectacular e-book success. The fact that Kindle e-books outsold paper ones during Christmas day was hailed as a landmark. You can find the press release here. However it doesn’t tell you how many books were actually sold on Christmas day. It maybe three [...]
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