Internet Psychologist
From today, Internet users in the UK will be monitored more than ever by the British Government. Beware the Ides of March, all politicians are told, but that’s exactly when the new European law on email monitoring takes place. It will inevitably fail. The scam being put upon all of …
What year was the World Wide Web born? Who invented the World Wide Web? When did the World Wide Web begin? These are the questions that many people are asking today – the “official” 20th birthday of the WWW. Happy Birthday World Wide Web. It’s hard to believe that it …
Just off to studios in London to start a day of radio interviews. I’m doing 18 interviews with various radio stations on the subject of the psychology of online writing; why the Internet has encouraged us to write more than ever before.
Search engines have never been as important as they would like us to think. Now, that truth is suddenly coming home to roost in more ways than one for companies like Google. They would like us to think that we are constanyly “searching” for things online – but we aren’t. …
Twitter is the current “in thing”; the numbers of people using it is rising exponentially. But could it have reached its peak? Remember just a year ago when the buzz was about Second Life? What happened? It didn’t even get discussed at the recent Social Media Conference in London. And …
How do you make your mind up whether to follow people on Twitter, or connect with them on LinkedIn or make them a Facebook friend? If you don’t know them already you probably take a look at their profile. New research on brain activity from the University of New York …
You’ll find me interviewed in this month’s Psychologies magazine about being an “online update junkie” – addiction to status updating. See: Psychologies Magazine.
Search engine users are changing the way they look for things; and it’s a significant jump. When the Internet was a mere baby, you could easily find things. All it took was an army of editors at Yahoo! and they presented you with a list of all the good stuff. …
The Twitter Treasure Chest is an amazing book that provides you with a clear plan on how to get the most out of Twitter – and make money from it. This book takes you through the basics of Twitter and also helps you work out a plan for marketing via …
Today is World Book Day, which aims to promote reading amongst young children in particular. But why do we need to promote books to children, when several novels-worth of material are added to the Internet every hour? Millions of words are added every day to the web, we read even …
Twitter is a microblogging service that allows you to post very short messages of 140 characters or less – so that they can be sent to a mobile phone as a text message, as well as appear on a web site. The idea behind Twitter is that your messages can …
This little booklet helps you understand the basics about Twitter. It answers your questions such as “What is Twitter?” and “What can I do with Twitter?”. There is plenty to learn about Twitter, but if you are new to Twittering, or simply want a reminder of ways in which you …
{dropcap}A{/dropcap}cross the world, people are using Twitter in wildly different ways. Some people simply use it as a notice-board showing what they are up to. Others use it to give their status, indicating whether they are in or out of the office. Yet others use Twitter to send direct messages …
You could use Twitter to significantly increase your profile, your business and your income. Already, several Twitter users are reporting that it has brought their web site more traffic, their business more attention and their bank balance more cash. So, how do you go about attracting people to follow you …
Social scientists from the University of Amsterdam have suggested that using online social networking sites could be beneficial for your psychological health. They claim that the Internet has “come of age” and is helping people achieve greater happiness than before. Essentially they have compared the use of the Internet ten …