Internet Psychologist
Graham Jones One of the things that is often hard to appreciate is that the Internet and its associated technologies will soon be present in many items other than a computer. For many people their only access to the Internet is via a PC. However, Internet controlled dishwashers are on their way …
Ebay spends tons of cash on pay per click marketing; they must do because last month they received more sponsored advert impressions than any other site – over three billion of them. And that’s almost ten times the amount Amazon saw. But Ebay may not be laughing all the way …
Do you want your web site to be the very best it can be? Would you like to do something radically different that is so exciting and innovative that it gets your business noticed? Well, to do that you probably need to be some kind of genius. Well, take heart …
An investigation by Computing Which? magazine suggests that social networking sites are not doing enough to protect children online. The survey found that children could easily be exposed to online bullying, pornography or predators through such sites. Most social networking sites simply allow anyone to join up with no checks …
Who would have thought it? But in a few weeks time you will be able to promote your business on the Internet using your humble accounting software. Intuit, the makers of QuickBooks, have announced that their next upgraded product due out soon, will include the ability to link your products to …
Early this morning I found myself on the Breakfast Show on BBC Radio Solent talking about “virtual pets”. They’ve come a long way since those early Tamagotchis! They had asked me to take part as I am an Internet Psychologist and they wanted the low down on the psychological implications …
You can find many Internet “gurus” who will tell you that you can make a small fortune from running adverts on your web site from Google. The system is called AdSense and Google pays you for every person who clicks on one of the adverts. You’ll find people who claim …
I’ve recently joined ExpertSources which is a web site for the media. You list your expertise and your media capabilities and registered journalists can hunt you down for comments or interviews. In the past week I’ve had two calls from the media – one for a women’s magazine and the other …
If you sell things worldwide, you need to ensure that your web sites are localised to user behaviour in each country. For instance, people in the USA behave differently online than people in the UK. New research from ScanSafe shows that American Internet users are much more likely to use sites …
In the past few days we’ve seen several announcements about online TV and movies. Amazon have launched a service to deliver films and TV programs online. Yesterday saw upgrades to the iPod to allow movies to be watched. AT&T earlier announced their online television service. The technology rush to use …
I’ve just finished reading “Publish & Prosper” by DL Byron and Steve Broback. It is by far the best book on blogging I have read so far – and I’ve read a lot of books on blogging! This book shows what you need to consider when setting up a business …
A new social shopping site is in beta test and already it looks set to redefine things for Internet retailers. Called Crowdstorm it allows shoppers to find out what is being sold, where, what’s good about it and so on. In other words shoppers can find out the best deals and …
Microsoft has been developing a new search engine, it has called Microsoft Live in order to stave off the competition from Google and Yahoo. Microsoft Live follows quickly after the company revamped its MSN Search as a result of falling market share in the search arena. However, MSN Search failed …
Each day I see on my Personalised Google Home Page a set of quotes. I noticed today that one is from Albert Einstein: “Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted.” Now, each day I also get a ton of stuff from “gurus” …
On September 11th 2001 I was on holiday with my wife Cathy and my son Elliot, who was nearly two years old at the time. We had been out to lunch and got back at just after 2pm. Elliot wanted to watch a video, so we switched on the TV …