Recent Posts Tagged With 'google'

• Research shows - Google not making us stupid after all

  Posted on Saturday November 28th, 2009 at 03:10 in search, google, Microsoft, yahoo, search engines, hitwise, bing, web search engine

  Search engines make you smarter, so say researchers from Penn State University (via Science Daily).    Well…kind of.   But they don’t make you stupid as Nicholas Carr claimed in his seminal Atlantic Magazine article last year. Resear...

• Murdoch and Google - a case of cutting off your nose to spite your face?

  Posted on Tuesday November 10th, 2009 at 02:50 in google, newspaper, sun, times, google news, wall street journal, rupert murdoch, ben kunz

  Following Rupert Murdoch’s comment that he might in future hide his news sites from Google, there’s obviously been a fair amount of discussion about it.  Ben Kunz’s take on the issue, including a look at how Sony manages to give aw...

• A lesson for the media: "website deconstruction"?

  Posted on Friday September 4th, 2009 at 16:43 in google, youtube, newspaper, facebook, online newspaper, silicon alley insider, future of the media, the new york times company, cuny graduate school of journalism

  A post on news 'hyperdistribution' from News Innovation (the blog of the Cuny Graduate School of Journalism in NY) reminded me of something that analyst group Jupiter talked about as long ago as January 2008 - the idea of 'website deconstruction.' ...

• Amazing visualisation - twittermood

  Posted on Thursday August 13th, 2009 at 15:37 in google, United States, alaska, twitter, data mining, sarah palin, anchorage alaska, wasilla alaska

  It's just a shame it only covers the States for now. TwitterMood is a project that visually displays the mood swings of the US by analysing millions of Twitter messages. Created by the Center for Complex Network Research at Northeastern Universit...

• Recycle a blog post day (Is the Internet dulling our senses, from June 2008)

  Posted on Wednesday August 12th, 2009 at 03:59 in google, friedrich nietzsche, nicholas carr, middle ages, university college london, google making us stupid, nicholas g. carr, mark pollard

  Thanks to Australian blogger and planner Mark Pollard, today is 'recycle a blog post day!' Being one of the token non Aussies taking part, I can see what others have done thanks to the time difference, so here are contributions from Tiphereth Glor...

• Are online newspapers under, rather than over performing?

  Posted on Thursday August 6th, 2009 at 05:14 in google, Microsoft, youtube, yahoo, AOL, us, facebook, rupert murdoch, online newspapers, end of newspapers

  Over at the Harvard University's Nieman Journalism Lab, there's an interesting post which goes through the latest Nielsen / Newspaper Association of America statistics with a fine tooth comb. By inverting the June statistics, Martin Langeveld cha...

• Too many herds in the field?

  Posted on Sunday August 2nd, 2009 at 07:09 in search, blog, google, Marketing, mark earls, gareth kay, methods of website linking, herd: how to change mass behaviour by harnessing our true nature

  This morning I woke up to an email from someone who a Google search tells me is well known in US ad circles, informing me, “you are not Mark Earls” (I’m not?) and telling me I was “infringing on his brand...stop it.” Who is Mark Earls? ...

• "Sponsored Tweets" - avoid like the plague

  Posted on Monday July 13th, 2009 at 12:40 in blog, google, Advertising, twitter, magpie, izea, alan wolk, the new york times company, sponsored tweets

  From Brand Republic comes this news that "social media marketing firm" Izea is getting on-board the sponsored tweets bandwagon. Izea is best known as a company that allows you to buy advertorial type endorsements from bloggers via an amazon style ...

• Online a large part of the 'media day' even for heavy print readers

  Posted on Friday June 26th, 2009 at 22:31 in google, Advertising, media, journalism, newspaper, world wide web, paul bradshaw, stephen quinn, the media audit, media audit bob jordan

  From Media Post (via Paul Bradshaw) come the following stats published by The Media Audit: Among all US adults, the Web now forms 32.5% of their typical "media day." However even among people who consider themselves heavy (print) newspaper reader...

• Twitter barren territory for online retailers

  Posted on Wednesday June 24th, 2009 at 10:53 in google, social network, facebook, twitter, hitwise, dell, on the web

  Check out this chart from Hitwise's UK analyst Robin Goad. It shows how Twitter does a very good job in sending people to entertainment and news related websites....and a pretty bad job in sending people to online retailers. Only 9.5% of Twitter ...

• Vin Diesel and Starbucks: Big on Facebook

  Posted on Monday June 22nd, 2009 at 14:27 in google, youtube, Barack Obama, facebook, adam sandler, coca-cola, vin diesel, komedi dukkani, lady gaga, largest facebook fan pages

  If you get a chance, it’s worth periodically glancing at the Facebook page stats produced by Inside Facebook. A lot of marketers scan over Google trends, but a regular look at the most popular Facebook pages is just as useful. For starters whil...

• Metrics and intuition

  Posted on Wednesday June 3rd, 2009 at 00:37 in google, yahoo, technorati, twitter, on the web, english language, web search engine, twingly

  Social media measurement - child's play?View more PDF documents from Dirk Singer. The other week I posted a piece about social media measurement and the on-going “you can’t measure it!” debate. After all, with close to 3000 delicious results ...

• Social media measurement

  Posted on Tuesday May 19th, 2009 at 07:54 in google, pagerank, metrics, Interactive Advertising Bureau, feedburner, iab, social media measurement, iab uk, adage power 150, social media roi

  One of the corporate barriers to going social that David Griner identified in his recent presentation was the lack of ROI. That argument always seems a little odd to me, as arguably anything that happens online is inherently measurable. And ...