Read my posts about the internet giant Google and in particular how Google’s products and services are used in political campaigning.
The phrase “Google Surge”has been coined to describe the practice of blanketing websites viewed by inhabitants of a particular area with geo-targeted online adverts in the last few days of an election campaign. … Read the full post »
The Germany Axel Springer group has this week launched an iPhone application for two national German newspapers, Bilt and Die Welt. For both there is a monthly subscription charge for access. The group is also intending to introduce charging more widely, with details due next week of how it will charge for local content on … Read the full post »
My post about Episode 10 of the TV series Flash Forward has been doing rather well at getting traffic from search engines. In total 81 different search phrases have generated traffic to the page and the most popular of those has only produced 10% of the total search engine traffic. That’s a pretty striking example … Read the full post »
Google’s data on the volume of searches from UK internet users shows a long, sustained decline in Digg from its peak in early 2007 has continued right through the last 12 months, leaving Delicious much the most popular. … Read the full post »
The outlines of a serious challenge to Google’s domination have started to take shape in the last few weeks and, rather than being based on someone doing a better search engine (as per many of the previous ones), it is based on fragmenting data on the internet. … Read the full post »
The humble two and three pin electrical plugs and sockets are in many ways a mini-marvel of standardisation. … Read the full post »
Since its launch earlier this year, Google’s Sidewiki has resulted in some warning those in PR of the new ways it lets corporate reputation be damaged. … Read the full post »
Over the summer I posed the question If Google is so great at usability, why…, raising the odd location of the “Blogs” option on Google searches. … Read the full post »
First and foremost, the news that YouTube is rolling out automatic subtitling is good news for the hard of hearing. … Read the full post »
A smart public sector decision maker needs to understand not only that that people now expect information to be available online but also that by putting it there it can spark a whole new set of ideas at virtually zero cost, … Read the full post »