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    RT @DavidGurteen: RT @GurteenQuotes: "I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." Lily Tomlin #quote http://bit.ly/8HXp25

    Friday 3:16

    RT @googlewmc: New post: Microdata support for Rich Snippets http://goo.gl/fb/Trpp

    Friday 3:14

    Bookmarked a link: Google - public data

    Friday 1:56

    Foursquare and Starbucks Team Up to Offer Customer Rewards: Foursquare means business. The 1-year-old startup no... http://bit.ly/aRC251

    Thursday 17:22

    RT @web_buzz: SEO: Study: Twitter Users 3 Times More Active than Average Social Media Users: The Community Participation Pyra... http://bit.ly/9DZyrb

    Thursday 16:51

    RT @DaBeathead: RT @MayerHawthorne: Christopher Walken pancake! http://twitpic.com/17y7l3 <<< gotta gets me one of dem templates ! < WTF!

    Thursday 16:50

    RT @jaamit: getting excited bout #thinkvis tomorrow < have a good one. We'll be listening :)

    Thursday 16:46

    RT @serafinowicz: I imagine Superman must have some kind of reinforced toilet.

    Thursday 16:44

    RT @dhinchcliffe: RT @timoreilly Obama Appoints Edward Tufte to Recovery Advisory Panel--Big Victory for Data Vis & Open Govt http://bit.ly/9IIWNh #gov20

    Thursday 16:41

Google Sidewiki vs Brands In Public

It’s been an interesting week.
First Seth Godin decides to back an idea that aggregates buzz around brands and creates a separate page for each brand curating this freely accessible  content that can be found anywhere on the web – Brands In Public. As an individual heading up an independent company called Squidoo Seth gets pilloried [...]

Internet Ad Spend has overtaken TV!

Wow! What a headline… what an historic day!
Digital marketing geeks (like me) have long heralded the day when this would happen. Indeed as early adopters and believers in the positive, unitrusive, measurable nature of the internet we prophesied it.
The Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) informs us that, at 23% of all advertising, the £1.75bn spent online now exceeds the 21.9% [...]

What else don’t we know about history?

I’m not a historian or an archaeologist but like alot of other people (1000 people queued to get into the Birmingham museum on Friday afternoon according to the Times!) I’m finding the stories coming out around the treasure trove, that has been found by a chap with a metal detector in a Staffordshire field, amazing!

The [...]

Honda’s New Unicycle

OK so I’m selling it short by the title of this post as this is a truly amazing advance in technology.
Honda have developed a ‘Segway‘ like device that you jump up onto a sit on like a unicycle. It has an omni-directional wheel and automatically keeps you upright thanks to internal gyroscopes.
CNET suggest that it [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-27

I uploaded a YouTube video — whiteair festival brighton september 09 http://bit.ly/hMrrD #
Falling Down on ITV4 – "standing up for my rights as a consumer" – classic! #movie #
@harveydean Nice one for the #ff Dean in reply to harveydean #
@harveydean You watching Falling Down? Classic call to action for customer services! in reply [...]

Getting more into VRM

Vendor Relationship Management is hard to get your head round. It’s openness and data sharing taken to the extreme. It’s the fulfilment of user control. It’s what is left when the social revolution is won.
To aid digestion I’m quoting here in full a text from Adriana Lukas, that she delivered back in June at the [...]

Why do I bother (blogging)

Some of you may have noticed recently that an awful lot of old posts started popping back up on Facebook and Twitter (maybe not). I thought I would explain the situation via a most interesting text conversation I recently had.
I noticed sometime mid August that this blog was offline. I made efforts to contact the former [...]

Social Media Metrics, Privacy and Vendor Relationship Management (VRM)

OK, so firstly apologies for the mouthful of a title, but I have just finished reading an inspiring book – Social Media Marketing: How Data Analytics Helps to Monetize the User Base in Telecoms, Social Networks, Media and Advertising, in a Converged Ecosystem (phew!) – which covers these topics and I wanted to share my [...]