Just Another Social Profile Really

Yesterday saw Yahoo anounce earnings that took many in the industry by surprise. As Michael Arrington on TechCrunch (not a breakfast cereal for robots) summarised:
Total revenue for the quarter was $1.8 billion, net revenues were $1.35 billion. Net Income was $542 million, or $0.37 per share. Analysts were expecting Q1 net revenues of around […]

The digital world is all a-Twitter this morning with the news that Alexa, the much maligned ranking system, is to change its methodology. In an announcement on its site, Alexa explains exactly what this will mean (well, almost):

We now aggregate data from multiple sources to give you a better indication of website popularity among the […]

Things might be a bit quiet here till next week as I’m currently down under in Australia.
What with catching up with friends from when I lived here back at the turn of the century (seems weird just writing that) and speaking at SMX Sydney on Thursday & Friday, I doubt I’ll have much time, […]

There’s a great little feature in The Guide (the what’s on guide that comes with The Guardian on a Saturday) called All Ears. In it Michael Holden recounts weird & wonderful conversations he’s overheard. It may sound dull, but it provides a fascinating insight into Britain in the 21st Century (and there’s now an anthology […]

I really don’t need to write about American Boy by Estelle, featuring Kanye West; it’s number 1 in the UK, the album will probably be in the same place next weekend and, if there was any justice in the world, this would have been the first US number 1 by a British female artist for […]

Erykah Badu’s track Soldier has an amazing video which is very close to my heart; unfortunately she, or her record company, have seen fit to deny it to us (can’t find it anywhere), so you’ll have to take my word for it..
If you know anything about Erykah Badu you won’t be surprised to learn that […]

A high placed source at Google’s UK office has told me that the search giant is planning to change the revenue model for its market leading AdWords advertising platform. In a move that could affect everything from the proposed Microsoft takeover of Yahoo, to the shape of the British TV sector, Google are planning to […]