At Waterloo this morning there was a scrummage around the small team that were handing out free gifts. Joining in, I found that BT were giving away headsets, promoting their VOIP system, BT Communicator. Useful in that you can easily make calls to phones far cheaper than using the ‘landline’ and then it all comes […]
Performancing
I’ve set up Performancing for Firefox; an extension to the browser that enables you to publish to multiple blogs form a single interface. As I publish only to the one, it’s not going to add that much to what I usually do, ecxept for the note saving which is a far more flexible method than […]
Google Zeitgeist
Google releases its review of the year, looking at the trends in searches. In the top gainers of the year, there are 2 cultural references which stand out from the other web/media terms. The first is Leonardo de Vinci, I’m guessing driven from the Dan Bown book and the Spielberg film. The other is Green […]
Snippets 18 Dec
I’ve got all these open tabs that I need to close…posting them is the best way. Scott Adams wants to adopt – an embryo. Does not need a lot of space (keep. it in the freezer), cheap (no toys or clothes) and no issue with a terror toddler or a truculent teen. It may just […]
Web 2.0 Validator
Are you really getting into the Web 2.0 vibe? This fun Validator allows you to assess your choice of sites against the Web 2.0 meme. I currently score 9 out of 35, but figure that if I just link to the page, mention Dave Legg and Rocketboom, and refer to lots of cool words such […]
Flickring Expectations
Last night was another of the Christmas functions at work, this time with the IT function. After dressing up and loading onto a coach, we arrived at our venue for the night – the Hard Rock Cafe – to take part in plenty of food, drink and karaoke. Scattered around the venue were dressing up […]
Geek Dinners again – Molly Holzschlag
Lat night I attended a geek dinner where the guest of honour was Molly Holzschlag. A new venue for me, it has it’s advantages being only 200 yards from the office. Enjoyable night, unfortunately only got to hear part of the speach as the acoustics were not too good and there was no amplification. One […]
Women in Podcasting
Blogher comments on Wired’s piece about women and blogging, looking at the attendance of women of the recent Podcasting conference in the US. Mistakenly called the inaugral conference (I’m sure I attended one in the UK in September), only 15% of the attendees were women. It follows the trend of ‘new’ technology, as it attracted […]
Snippets 17 Nov
Marketing for dogs – Floor stickers and low level posters advertising Pedigree dog food provide experiential marketing for canines as they are scented with dog food smells to attract the target market. Gnomenclature – Chris Pirillo’s new word defintitions. I particulary like: WEB 2.0 – I don’t know, and I don’t care. PODCASTING – Um… […]
Analytics vs Measuremap 1
So far Measuremap is a clear winner. As Ben has noted, the Google measurement tool has not started recording at all despite it being nearly 24 hours. It took about 8 hours before it decided to recognise I had the code on the site. t Measuremaps started giving me figures immediately after I had added […]
Google Analytics
I’ve signed up for Google Analytics to see what it can do. Compared to Measuremap, the initial impression is definitely far more commercial, with reports being cut for marketing and content optimisation and the tie in with Adsense. It needs to run for a while longer to get some data in before I can assess […]
Flash Holding pages
A Brazilian agency(?) Academia de Filmes have produced a website holding page that is a little more interesting than the usual…some thought has gone into managing the waiting period for the file to download (only visible if you have a slower speed) and it does act as an introduction into their capabilities. Via ThreeMinds
Mechanical Turk
Along with many other people, I’ve been playing around with Amazon’s new tool Mechanical Turk, a mechanism to apply distributed human intelligence to mundane tasks that are still too complicated for comouters. I’m guessing I’m one of many given the poor availability of the service over the weekend – it was ‘unavailable’ for the majority […]
Microsoft OfficeLive
One of the other things announced yesterday by Microsoft was OfficeLive. This is still in development with it going into beta (to US residents only) in early 2006. Looking at the domains, live.com was first registered in 1994. I wonder how much Microsoft paid for it?
Microsoft announces live.com
Microsoft are currently announcing some new services, one of which is live.com. errr….isn’t this start.com, with added email? I can sign in with my Passprt so it recognises me. Iit currently only works in IE (although Firefox appears to be coming soon) I can add feeds (no mention of RSS) and a few widgets, such […]
Online spending
Whilst the Advertising Association is predicting less than expected growth in total advertising spend in 2005 (2.3% vs 3.9%) on line advertising is expected to grow by just over 39%. Great – for me, it’s always easier to ignore the online stuff, it has to be really good to make me want to look. But […]
BBC Interactive Shakespeare
November looks like it’s going to be Shakespeare month on the BBC (too much pink though). As part of it, there’s an interesting Murder Mystery game that kicks off next week, to get you to explore the plays.
UK Gov encourages Remix culture
A new site from the Royal Schools of Music, backed by the UK Government has been lauched to provide teenagers to learn more about music, according to the BBC. I tried to give it a go, but unfortunately could not get the sound on any browser and it seemed to completely crash Firefox – so […]
Get Togethers
A preliminary agenda has been posted for LesBlogs in December. I’m off to this and takign the opportunity to visit Paris, which I’ve never done before. And before that,on 24th Nov Ian Forester has pulled together another GeekDinner with Molly Holzschlag. Sign up at geekdinner.co.uk.
Gmail no More – now it’s Google Mail
Google are having to change their domain in the UK due to ongoing legal issues over the gmail name. They have FAQ page up, stating that they are no longer issuing gmail accounts, but have switched to googlemail.com. The question about whether I will have to change domain remains open: # What if I’m a […]