The next few hours are going to be interesting. I apparently sent 43 boxes to the US and they are being delivered and unpacked as we speak. I’m trying to stay out of the way.
Flickr and Yahoo accounts – relationships are hard to break up
It’s finally arrived, the time when you have to merge your Flickr and Yahoo accounts. It was obvious it was coming and now they want to move the final 5% of users across to the Yahoo! login system to simplify things. 95% of your fellow Flickrites already use this system and their experience is just […]
NYC January Mobile Monday
Update: I got the wrong impression from the talk (see, told you that this was all new) and Chaals has updated more in the comments and gives me a far clearer picture of what I was trying to understand. On Monday I went along to Mobile Monday, this month a 5 hour celebration of SVG […]
Waiting in Chicago
I’m sitting here in Chicago after travelling here at the last minute, only to have arrived and find that the meeting I’m here for has been cancelled. Whist waiting to see of something else is being organised I’ve managed to find a desk at our local office. Of course, without the work PC little work […]
University or Not
An interesting article in The Sunday Times examining the state of the UK universities and whether it is worth going to them to get a degree. Nothing too new in the writing, it’s a story that pops up every few months in various papers. On the one hand you need a degree to get a […]
Soul Limbo Song
Adrian had me smiling today with his TunAtheday, Soul Limbo from BookerT and the MGs. I song I know from endless cricket broadcasts but never knew it who it was by or that it was the same band as performed Green Onions. Go and smile at the happy sound, even if you have no idea […]
Video tracking with VidMeter
Vidmeter tracks the popular videos across the web, giving you a hourly updated list that reflects what’s hot across 11 sites. You can get a widget that displays the hot stuff on your site as well. Now what would really help me is if I can take this site and its monitoring and use it […]
Linkage
After Robert Scoble manages to piss off quite a few people yesterday with his post about big blogs not linking to people, who writes a post today questioning whether the ‘A-listers’ have a responsibility to link to others and opens up his comments to people to post their links: Another thing I can do? Ask […]
The Day After
Sci Fi is running at 23 yo movie called The Day After, about the impact of an all out nuclear war between the USA and the USSR. The apartment i was in before this one still had the fallout shelter stickers in the basement, as a place the building residents would have to shelter, whilst […]
Blogging ROI
Charlene Li over at Forrester has completed a report on ROI for corporate blogs. I need to be at work to access the full report but looking forward to reading it. The metric is not cut and dried, it never can be for something as subjective as opinion leading and conversations, but the framework is […]
Fainting Goats
From Charlie, I link to a video about fainting goats. I’m not sure what to make about this; it’s pretty funny seeing them fall over when startled but the fact of their owner going at them with umbrellas to demonstrate it for the camera is a little too much. This is a disease that could […]
Domino’s Anything Goes – Tracking a video
This is now back…some changes but nothing substantial. One of the projects I’ve been working on, at least from a metrics and tracking perspective, is a US campaign for Domino’s Pizza: Anything Goes, any large pizza, any topping any crust for $9.99. Supported by a heavy TV promotion, in-store, email, SMS, online advertising, all the […]
Local Service
Will Wheaton’s wistful and inciteful column over at Suicide Girls had me thinking that the replacement of local shops, which provide some kind of community connection, with the commoditised big chains has been a factor in the development of recommendation services such as Library Thing or Pandora. If we can’t get suggestions from the local […]
Soundtrack to my life
I’ve finally got me, time and my music all together in the same place to answer Ewan’s tagging of me for the latest meme to go round. What is the soundtrack of your life, if your soundtrack was on random. So, following the instructions, open the library, press random play, see what you get. Opening […]
Get a First Life and take a Blog Survey
You will, I hope, have seen Darren’s Get a First Life site, a call for people everywhere to sign up and try some of this real life stuff; you have to scroll down to comment 16 to get the real social impact of this, with Linden Labs posting their take on it and giving a […]
SXSW NYC drinks and Social Media Club
In between work, I managed to get out to two interesting gatherings this week. The first was a pre-SXSW reception for people who have been to SXSW or are planning to go. For a couple of hours we got to gather and socialise, making new acquaintances to chat to when to get to Austin. The […]
WordPress Upgrade to 2.1
Well, everything appears to be working with the upgrade. I’m keeping my fingers crossed though.
Search update
I love looking at the search terms that get people to my site. Today we have a specific target in mind, with the person who got to me with “can you put porn on myspace” where I make the top 10 in google. In answer to this, I have no idea. I know it seems […]
BarCamp London 2
Ian’s updated the BarCamp London information and spaces are going quickly by the look of it. The main sponsor is BT, who are providing the venue and the wifi. Get over here and sign up! Update: The sign-up went live about 1pm GMT this morning and an hour latr about 60% of the places are […]
Sky and Timeshifting programmes
Sky is bar far the largest purveyor of DVR/time shifting services in the UK. A review of their service released last week shows that they have over 2 million boxes out there, with around 5million people using it – that’s around 8% of the UK population. As a long time user of TiVo, where the […]