Liverpool Mercury interviewed me
The Liverpool Mercury just interviewed me about the psychology of Facebook – is there pressure to have more friends?
Graham Jones
Is your business prepared for the way your future workers will think?
Businesses are ill-prepared for what is going to happen to them in the next couple of years. Students currently at university and college are avid users of social networking sites. New research shows the dramatic increase in uptake of social networking by students. The study reveals that six out of …
Blogging is dying – long live blogging
Blogs are fundamental to the Internet; without them Google would have little fresh content to index, other than brand new web sites. Existing web sites can help improve their indexing by Google (and other search engines) if they include a blog. The reason is simple. When we visit a search …
Most online shoppers have problems with the sites they visit
Nine out of every ten people who shop online have problems with the web sites they buy from. That’s the stunning conclusion from research conducted by Tealeaf, the customer experience company. What’s worse, is that this is the fourth year in a row this study has been performed and it …
What you can learn from the Palin email attack
So, Whitehouse-hopeful Sarah Palin has had her email account attacked by hackers. It’s no surprise that some people might want to do this; after all she represents an extreme viewpoint in the USA. What is surprising and troubling is that a public figure had two email accounts on a public …
We’re all doomed….! Well, not on the Internet we’re not…!
We’re only half-way through the week and we have seen enough headlines of impending doom to last us all a life time. Here are just a few of the things that have been brought to our attention in the past couple of days: Lehman Brothers collapses AIG gets rescued by …
Warning: The BBC is over-reacting on the web’s future
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the British inventor of the World Wide Web, spoke recently about his worries about certain parts of the Internet. He is concerned that the web has been used to spread disinformation; he is worried that we can trust some parts of the web when we shouldn’t. Today, …
Internet marketers are missing a feminine trick
Take a look at most of the material online about Internet marketing and you will find it is aimed at people doing “Internet marketing”. There are thousands of “Internet marketing” gurus all writing books they sell to each other. But there is a common thread to all the stuff you …
Where did that month go? Where did Google’s 10 years go?
I’m back…! Did you notice I had been away? Or were you so busy, or so wrapped up in your own holidays you didn’t care? Well, I’ve been on an extended Summer break; I’ve spent lots of time with my son Elliot (aged 8) and I’ve also been thinking about …
In the Guardian
I was quoted in the Guardian this weekend. See: http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2008/aug/09/workandcareers
More people use online search than ever – but Google isn’t winning
More people than ever before are spending part of their day searching online. The latest research from the Pew Internet group has revealed that apart from email, it’s the most common thing we do online. Almost half of all people who go online each day engage in search. At first …
BBC Tees and parents who snoop on their children
Just done an interview on BBC Tees about parents who snoop on their kids online activities. Pointed out that it’s the parents who need more advice than the children…!
Web 2.0 flurry appears to be slowing down
Researchers at McKinsey, the business analysts, have discovered that the initial enthusiasm there was for “Web 2.0” is now waning. In fact, far fewer businesses have taken up things like blogging and social networking than was predicted. As you can see from McKinsey’s own graph (above) on average only around …
Check your email – quick – another one might be in….!
How often do you check your email? When you install email software, such as Microsoft Outlook, it is set up to automatically check for new messages every 10 minutes. Few people change the default settings, so most people get used to emails popping into their inbox regularly throughout the day. …
Don’t forget – the Internet exists “within” the real world – it’s not a separate place…!
Sometimes data comes along and you just have to go – “oh my goodness, how daft is that?”. Well, new research from search engine marketing specialists, iProspect, shows that the vast majority of online marketers appear to have forgotten there is a real world out there. That’s because this study …