Category: Trends

  • Mirror images

    Business confidence among UK firms has seen its biggest drop since 1995 due to the government’s rhetoric on spending cuts, a survey suggests says the BBC. This news item brings to mind an apt analogy in The Economist this week:…

  • The long and the short of it

    Two surveys published this month by Canadian research firm Sysomos looks at countries around the world and the percentage of people online who blog and tweet. There are some interesting metrics in each analysis  – age distribution and gender, for…

  • Wikio top 30 UK tech blogs for June 2010

    Search engine and news portal Wikio will be publishing their June 2010 list of the Top 100 Tech Blogs in the UK in a few days and, as usual, they’ve given me an advance peak at the top 30 from…

  • Goodbye Facebook?

    [Update May 17: If you read this post before today, you might notice that the title now has changed with the addition of one extra character: the question mark. Reaction and comments since I published this post on May 15…

  • Making the social media story compelling

    One of the most effective explanations of social media last year was Social Media Revolution, a video created by author Erik Qualman to promote his book Socialnomics: How Social Media has changed the way we live and do business. Illustrating…