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Last week SEOmoz announced that, after a couple of failed attempts, it had raised $18 million in funding. Now, I’m a fan, so I’m, biased, but to me this was a great story. A company that, to use the tech world’s favourite jargon, pivoted, from a search agency to an SaaS supplier; one which has [...]

Rand Fishkin (a lovely guy and, I’d like to think, a friend of mine a great friend whom I wish I saw more of*), recently wrote a post on his personal blog entitled A Healthy Dose Of Fear Is Appropriate When Dealing With The Press. It was in response to a piece by another entrepreneur [...]

At this point, writing a post about the ongoing fiasco at Techcrunch is a bit like pointing out that bears like doing their business outdoors or that the chap who lives in Rome with the big hat happens to be a Catholic. But, as a reader of Techcrunch, I think it’s worth getting a few [...]

There can be no doubt that the biggest issue to arise over the last few years, in terms of threats to technology companies, is the rising level of concern, both in terms of public opinion and political attention, around privacy. Whether it be Google’s Street View cars ‘accidentally’ storing wifi details, Facebook’s Beacon publicising your [...]

I like Paul Carr. For those of you who don’t know he’s a British tech journalist, currently based in San Francisco, but who tore a trail through the British dotcom scene of the noughties, and which he described in his hilariously honest Bringing Nothing To The Party. He used to be a bit of a [...]

During the recent UK elections, The Guardian took to using a rolling-blog style of article to keep readers up-to-date with all the latest news around the campaign: in the frantic days during which the Tory/Lib Dem coalition came into being, they felt (I assume) that this was the best way for them to present this [...]

A few weeks back I spoke at the media140 event in London. Despite the fact that my voice nearly gave out at one point, saved only by the kind donation of a Strepsil by Gabrielle, it seemed to go well. After I’d finished I got chatting to Ben Cohen, the tech correspondent at Channel 4 [...]

Well, what a week that was. Trafigura, Jan Moir and Ian & TFL: three separate incidents, all unrelated other than the fact that, to greater or lesser degrees, mobiles & Twitter played a large part in their being resolved/gaining mainstream coverage. In the case of Trafigura, Carter-Ruck almost certainly caved more quickly than they would [...]

So, apparently Daniel Hannan, the Tory MEP for South East England (and therefore one of my representatives), told the PM what’s what in a display that has people from New York to Norwich proclaiming how amazing he is (I’m not going to do him the favour of putting the video on this site). Well, perhaps [...]

If you read the media pages in any of the broadsheet papers you’ll undoubtedly read about the dire straits many local media groups find themselves in. They’re dropping like flies in the US and they’re not doing much better over here. Generally the causes listed for this situation are the internet, whether it be Craigs [...]