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  • 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,…

  • Numbered days for Phorm

    The plans of behavioural targeting firm Phorm for spying on what people do online look to have taken a terminal hit as The Guardian reports. The announcement today of BT’s pull-out suggests it could be hard for Phorm to continue…