Category: Trends

  • What people said about Posterous

    Do you use Posterous, the free blogging and photo-sharing tool? If you do, why? I just can’t see that I’d use it. I have blogs and a primary domain. I’m already all over the net with services, a few of…

  • Teen views on what’s hot and what’s not

    The story of the teenager on work experience at financial services firm  Morgan Stanley in London – what my American friends call an ‘intern’ – who wrote a research paper on teenagers’ online media habits has grabbed attention everywhere as…

  • Google embraces Twitter

    Google has 46 separate Twitter accounts when I looked just now. Like every other company looking at tools like Twitter, they’re no different – Google people want to be where other people are online. Clearly, Google-owned Jaiku (remember that?) isn’t…

  • Zero expectation of 118 800

    So that explains why the new mobile phone directory 118 800 was unreachable yesterday. The Telegraph reports: […] An online directory inquiry website for mobile phones has crashed due to the volume of owners trying to remove their names from…

  • Back to the dark ages with pay per click for PRs

    You might remember the huge kerfuffle last summer about the Associated Press and its plans to charge bloggers on a pay-per-word basis every time a blogger used any content from an AP story in a blog post. So, for instance,…