Monthly Archives: January 2008

Is Del.icio.us the rabbit for Yahoo!?

By Jonathan | Published: January 31, 2008

Having worked with Yahoo! at two agencies across pretty much all of its products (including Search with Ged as a client!), I was a bit sad to hear about the job cuts in the pipeline and read some of the more cutting articles that appeared after the financial results. A lot of people have pointed [...]

Posted in future, social media, thoughts, web2, web3 | 6 Comments

I love the Internet

By Jonathan | Published: January 29, 2008

I’ve said it before and I know I’ll definitely say it again, but I really do love the Internet and everything (nearly) that it enables. My dad (self-confessed technophobe) has just set up his brand spanking new internet radio (Roberts WM201) – using the easy to use Netgear browser interface and adding the radio manually [...]

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Great tools for Mac-based bloggers

By Jonathan | Published: January 21, 2008

Problogger serves up a great list of tools you should check out if you haven’t already. Some on there I haven’t used and am going to check out. If I had to pick three completely indespensible ones mentioned it would be Imagewell, Cyberduck and Twitterific. Iain has also just posted about MacHeist too. Loads of [...]

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Crunchies announced

By Jonathan | Published: January 19, 2008

Full list here. Obviously nice to see Bite clients Facebook and Apple on the honours list.

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Actions/words

By Jonathan | Published: January 13, 2008

Umm, haven’t we agreed all this already? (via Open/Anthony) Without developing the detail right now, let me suggest that traditional models of advertising where vendors pay for messages to be delivered to prospective customers will be challenged longer-term by various forms of collaboration marketing and advisory services where customers pay trusted advisors to recommend relevant products [...]

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ASCII Art on Google Adwords

By Jonathan | Published: January 10, 2008

I love this. Incredibly simple idea, but one that someone else had and did first – Sixt. And guess what, the ads apparently never ran because of the Google terms and conditions . . . the idea itself is the thing that everyone’s talking about, fuelled by the mocked up ads created for people [...]

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My Week In Media

By Jonathan | Published: January 4, 2008

Happy new year, have a good Christmas (?) etc to everyone. Ged tagged me over Christmas to help fuel the “My Week In Media” meme that came off the back of this and this. Back then I was sat on a sofa in Northumbria with a patchy broadband connection so I decided to leave a [...]

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