IAB Mobile Forum

Last Wednesday I attended the IAB’s mobile forum (presentations are uploaded here).

It was an illuminating afternoon, though mainly in terms of what I didn’t take away. Mobile is still nascent as a media platform, and the industry understanding of it is still at a fairly basic (in my opinion) level.
Most information on how people use [...]

Links – 15th February 2009

Things I have read in the last week that I would recommend:
Henry Jenkins has begun serialising his white paper on spreadable media – If it Doesn’t Spread It’s Dead. Part 1 – on media viruses and memes – and Part 2 – on sticky and spreadable – are both fascinating
Andrew Scott argues that Google Latitude [...]

Links – 21st November 2008

My top 10 reads of the past week:
1. The Times published an absolutely fantastic article looking at neuroscience and how we can improve our brain performance. The writer pays short shrift to the DS Brain Training activities, for the sensible reason that this rewards recognition and repetition over learning. While we do not yet know [...]

Links – 26th October 2008

A selected list of links below. The recent paucity of posts, along with this going out on a Sunday, should indicate that my recent schedule hasn’t been too forgiving.
Blog-related
Jeremiah Owyang on the 7 tenets of the connected analyst. There is a balance between utility, leadership and a commercial outlook
NBC has begun releasing its TAMIs – [...]

Links – September 11th 2008

I ended up missing the link update last week, so I’ll split the two weeks up into two manageable (hopefully) chunks
Blog-related
An article in the New York Times argues that there is not yet a formula of success for online TV series (Will there ever be? It’s not like all broadcast shows are hits). While Claire [...]

Links – 16th June 2008

Part 4 of 5:
Technology and social software links
Collection of presentations from the Web2.0 Expo (random($foo)) – a very comprehensive directory containing both videos and slides
10 things to hate about web2.0(Hugh McCloud)
Scaling a microblogging service(Hueniverse) – or How to fix Twitter
Chronology of brands hit by social media(Jeremiah Owyang)
The first Internet disconnection due to piracy is… The [...]

Will Google AdWords on TV change the market?

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Google has announced that it has taken its new TV Ads programme out of beta. Go see it for yourself here.
In theory, TV Ads is designed to democratize TV advertising in the same way that AdWords changed the online display market.
I’ll be following this with great interest over the coming months. Could it [...]

Links – 10th April 2008

Blog-related

When hypertext linking is a bad thing (Slate)
How ISPs throttle legitimate Internet users (Cory Doctorow) NB: This is a great article
Charles Manson releases album using Creative Commons (Limewire)
Blinkx broadband TV is sounding pretty good (CNet)
When targeted advertising is perhaps too good (Neatorama) NB: Any disparagement of World of Warcraft is tongue in cheek
A look at pitchfork tv (Wired) [...]

Links – 28/03/08

Blog-related:

Is FriendFeed the Youtube/Facebook/Twitter of 2008?
How the design of top websites has changed over 10 years (Wake up later)
Social media starter guide (Chris Brogan)
Fallon social media presentation (Slideshare) via Lee
Rick Astley on the rickrolled meme (LA Times)
Anthropological argument for not having a boss (Paul Graham)
Youtube award winners
Computer games sold with t-shirts (Boingboing)
Google trying to host [...]

Headlines should strip out the (bad) puns

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Is it just me or is the constant and repetitive punning of cultural references in print headlines getting a bit tiresome?
I’m currently irked by the constant riffing on No Country for Old Men – a Google search for “no country for old” -men gives 831,000 entries. And this is for a film that [...]