Category: Trends
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Sign up to stop the NLA charging PR for links
Last month, I wrote about plans by the Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA) here in the UK to introduce a scale of charges for anyone in the PR business who uses a link on their own website to any mainstream media…
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What’s for lunch today, Twitter?
An imaginative use of Twitter. Somerset County Council in southwest England is set to use Twitter to tell parents what’s on the lunch menu for their children at school. This idea is part of the Council’s My School Lunch initiative,…
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The bikini barista comes to town
Is Bikini Espresso Cafe a clever niche-marketing idea, or just stereotypical exploitation of women, masquerading as a smart business move? Brand Republic reports: A US firm is planning to launch a chain of coffee shops staffed entirely by bikini-clad women…
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Wikio Top 30 UK tech blogs for August 2009
My friends at Wikio have again given me an advance look at a subset of their latest ranking of the top 100 tech blogs in the UK which they will be publishing soon. So here’s the advance list – the…
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Gartner restricts usage of hype cycle graphics
It’s that time of year when industry analysts Gartner publish their annual hype cycle report for emerging technologies. Last week, Gartner did indeed publish this year’s report, the Hype Cycle For Emerging Technologies 2009 report, available for clients to purchase…