New York magazine
Just been interviewed by New York magazine on the topic of meeting strangers online.
Online dating explodes as Brits rush to find love for Valentine’s
PEER 1 Hosting , the global online business hosting (http://www.peer1hosting.co.uk/) provider for the world’s largest free dating websites, is predicting the biggest ever peak in online matchmaking as more Brits than ever hit the web to find their Valentine. 92% of Brits plan to go online for the first time …
PRWeb Case Study: Online News Releases and Search Marketing
PRWeb, the online news distribution service of Vocus (NASDAQ: VOCS) today announced it has published a new case study on Sterling Va.-based Conversion Pipeline. The case study details how Conversion Pipeline, a strategic marketing communications firm serving small business and non-profit clients, integrates a variety of Web-based marketing tactics to …
Study of political bloggers proves businesses should blog
Political bloggers are a happy bunch of people. At long last the Internet gives them a means of venting their spleen. Beforehand, they could only moan to their mates down the pub. Now, thanks to blogging software, they can get their ideas to a wider audience. Some, like Guido Fawkes, …
Google Buzz will be a failure
In a blaze of headlines Google has launched Buzz, its much-hyped “status” application. Let us set aside, for the moment, that Yahoo also has a service called Buzz and consider what the Google service is all about. It is no more than an “integrator”. And it is only doing that …
PRWeb Partners with Zemanta to Enhance Visibility of News Releases in Blogosphere
PRWeb, the online news distribution service of Vocus (NASDAQ: VOCS), today announced a first-of-its-kind partnership with blogging application, Zemanta. Zemanta is a free content discovery tool that automatically recommends relevant content to bloggers, as they write posts and draft content. “This is an efficient way to share news online with …
Shock Social Media Survey on trust is not surprising after all
Top cop Ali Dizaei is now a disgraced officer languishing in jail. His conviction for perverting the course of justice has raised the whole issue of who can we trust. If we can’t trust senior police officers, who can we trust? In short, of course, there are a few police …
SES New York Schedules First-time Affiliate Marketing Track
Search Engine Strategies (SES) announced today that it has added a first-time track to SES New York, which is being held March 22-26, 2010 at the Hilton New York. The new Affiliate Marketing track, which is being hosted by Pepperjam, will take place on Thursday, March 25, and is open …
Traffic is the wrong thing to chase for your web business
How much do you like being called “traffic”? For that’s what most website owners think you are. To them you are just a number. They can look at their analytics and go “wow, traffic is up year on year; excellent”. You can find all sorts of information across the web …
Happy online customers are more likely to help your business
Customers can either help you or hinder you. They can, for instance, let other people know about how wonderful you are, merely because they want to do that. On the other hand they can write negative reviews or blog posts saying how appalling your customer service has become. Clearly you …
Three types of people who should give up Twitter
Throughout the world there are people sitting right at this moment, scratching their heads and wondering “Should I use Twitter?”. Every day people ponder over joining up with Twitter; yet each day people stop using Twitter as well. There is a never ending revolving door of people joining and then …
Web browser compatibility testing will boost your reputation
By Graham Jones Web browser compatibility testing sounds rather technical and confusing – something you ought to let your web developer deal with. The problem is that if your website is not compatible with the plethora of browsers available, it will affect your business reputation. Indeed, before you know it …
In Polish newspaper tomorrow
Just been interviewed by “The Republic” newspaper in Poland for an article which will appear in tomorrow’s edition about why people are so willing to give out personal details online.