Internet Psychologist
The Internet is about to have its own “credit crunch”. It’s not that the web is running out of money – far from it – but an altogether different problem, revealed by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in an interview with Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung – a leading German national daily newspaper. …
There appears to be something of a competitive spirit in online social networks. It’s fostered by the fact that Facebook, LinkedIn and Ecademy (amongst others) reveal how many “friends” or “connections” you have. The theory is that you must be worth knowing if you have more connections and friends. Now, …
Ask most advertisers and they’ll tell you they are really trying to reach people around 25-35 years old. Why? Well, they are the people with most disposable income and most likely to spend money. True enough, it does depend on the product you are selling – few young people are …
The online auction giant eBay has announced 1,000 redundancies, shedding around 10% of its global workforce. At first sight you might think that eBay has been caught up in the world’s economic turmoil – but you’d be wrong. What eBay is doing is what most businesses ought to be doing, …
As I write this, the FTSE 100 has plummeted by more than 5% in a little over an hour and a half of trading. Things are not looking good on the stock market today. The panic is because traders are worried that UK-based savers will now take their money out …
A “one-man-band” blog has just been sold for a total of $15m. That’s right – a work-at-home blogger has been paid a whopping multimillion pound sum for his blog. Bankaholic – a blog about what banks are offering – has earned an up-front payment of $12.4m for the blog, with …
Here’s the link to the Yorkshire Post article about Internet Shopping: http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/features/Net-returns-look-good-as.4550666.jp
Al Jazeera television – the Arab news network – wanted to interview me about the upload of videos to YouTube by people who then go on to kill (following the Finland incident)
The Yorkshire Post has just interviewed me for an article on the boom in online shopping
The women’s magazine Zest is to include material from me about email stress. Just checked the quotes…!
Everywhere you look there are headlines about the financial crisis spreading the globe. Which bank will collapse today, people are asking. Is my money safe? Should I shove it all under the mattress? Confidence has hit an all-time low and every business owner appears to be suffering. But yesterday, supermarket …