Microsoft ran a “Live Search Syposium” for 100 or so specially invited guests. Here is the vision of search in the future that they showed us. Continue reading...

Google promoted device to make a vague attempt at link spam. i think it may have also dampened the desire to debate on blogs though Continue reading...

Friends and family are always coming up to me asking for my opinions on their latest business idea or website and more and more I am starting to find myself giving the same advice time and again. Write it down! I don’t know for sure that your business is going to make a million or break the bank - but what I do know is that you won’t even get… Continue reading...

I am not saying that omniture is crap but I seem to be able to get Indextools to give me useful information whilst Omniture just gives me headaches. Where some people might say that Omniture has a steep learning curve I just call a difficult UI experience. My only wish now is that we don’t find Yahoo turning Indextools to crap.

There are two versions of Indextools -… Continue reading...

Adwords trademark bidding has been possible in the US for a while, but will remain impossible in most of Europe after the 5th of May. In the UK and Ireland, though, Google have found a way to make you pay more for your own traffic in the future. Continue reading...

Ever since SMX Seattle LAST year (2007) it dawned on me that staying alive in any shape or form in the Social Media was going to either take huge amounts of time, huge amounts of talent, or… basically… a shortcut. I’m not sure if I was even ON facebook then, and certainly avoided blogging if I could pay someone else to do it. But the world was changing. Very fast.Towards… Continue reading...

It had to happen. Someone has found a way to share personal data between websites without technically invading privacy laws. Microsoft is going to let Bebo, Facebook and LinkedIn all share their data, with others no doubt coming on fast. Continue reading...

It started as a “Build-a-bear” party. It has ended in tears.

A few weeks ago my daughter went to a “Build-a-bear” party. Basically a party in a teddy bear shop where you build your own teddy bear. there’s probably all sorts of child slave labour law issues in that whole model, but the kids loved it Continue reading...

Voucher codes were a great way to track marketing channels until individuals were given a scaleable way to tell their friends about them. You could call it “viral marketing” but it is being measured as channel marketing. Now promotional vouchers are starting to eat away at the brand’s margins. Here’s why. Continue reading...