PlayStation Repair Action Team

September 1, 2009

Nice little stunt in the street outside Sony HQ in Great Marlborough Street – Watchdog has a van parked up full of engineers who are repairing PlayStations for free to bring attention to Sony’s charging policy. This kind of consumer direct action reminds me of a Milton Jones‘ joke – available I believe on a [...]

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What does your email address say about you?

August 27, 2009

I’ve recently been playing with Wolfram Alpha, which pulls in some great statistical information when you search on a first name, including the age distribution of the name and the average age of people with a particular name. All this makes me think that you could make some pretty reasonable assumptions based purely on a [...]

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Twitter UK celebrity chart – 17th July

July 17, 2009

A month since my last look at the murky world of celebrities on Twitter – so what’s new? Well as usual I have noticed someone I’ve miss someone completely off the list – in this case Jamie Oliver, who has swept up an impressive 150,000 followers. Elsewhere, Lily Allen is now very close to the [...]

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Eat yourself fitter?

July 15, 2009

Speaking as someone whose last meal was the all-you-can-eat buffet at Pizza Hut in Victoria, Diana Janicki’s blog Growling Belly is a glimpse into a magical fairytale land where food is lovingly prepared and eaten with proper relish (and where relish does not equal bacon bits). As I salivated over the “foolproof” recipe for pavlova [...]

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Want higher click through rate on banners? Sorted!

June 30, 2009

Maybe more creative like this will sort out the UK’s woefully low average CTRs! Source: Bridge Worldwide 2009: Cannes Cyber Lions Gold – Pringles Can Hands Share: Recommend on Facebook Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Bookmark in Browser Tell a friend

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Click through rate on UK banner advertising amongst lowest in Europe

June 30, 2009

This month DoubleClick published a useful benchmark of online advertising performance rates across all activity in 2008.  This is pretty much the most solid data you’ll ever see on display advertising performance, based according to DoubleClick on: “hundreds of advertisers, thousands of campaigns, and tens of billions of ad impressions.” It’s a useful set of [...]

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Firefox grows European market share, whilst UK lags behind

June 30, 2009

Today’s launch of Firefox 3.5 is the latest shot in the long struggle for domination in the browser market.  The data below – from AT Internet Institute – shows that Firefox has steadily been growing its market share in Europe, mostly at the expense of Internet Explorer.  Disappointingly for Microsoft, Internet Explorer’s market share actually [...]

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Australia – an apology

June 24, 2009

When I wrote our last company newsletter I added in a throwaway line about Google Wave: Meanwhile Google Wave looks genuinely awesome, the best thing to come out of Australia since… er… anyway it makes Microsoft Exchange look very last century. If I’d thought about this for more than a couple of seconds I should [...]

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Twitter UK celebrity chart – 11th June

June 11, 2009

Here’s the latest update in our literally all-star celebrity Twitter chart.  Have Coldplay topped the magic one million followers?  You know it! Celeb Followers Coldplay 1,003,695 Lily Allen 556,754 Stephen Fry 552,133 Neil Gaiman 521,822 Imogen Heap 461,337 Richard Bacon  427,365 Russell Brand 377,358 Eddie Izzard 364,028 Jonathan Ross 306,404 John Cleese 186,825 Chris Moyles [...]

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Trademark bidding on Google Adwords – the saga continues

May 29, 2009

At my session at SES this year I reviewed the current legal position of trademark bidding and made the confident forecast that this one will run and run.  Seemed like a safe prediction – and for once I was right! According to Outlaw, the case between Interflora and Marks and Spencer has now been referred [...]

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