Category Archives: Misc.

Twitter trialling ads on profile pages

News reaches us this morning from www.thenextweb.com that Twitter is trialling advertising on profile pages. The advertising is small and unobtrusive and is currently being trialled with internal messages only.
Time will tell if this becomes a key revenue stream. It is a good step for Twitter but the real challenge is how to monetise the [...]

The longevity benefit of good content

Blogs are wonderful things - write good content and it will keep delivering for years. A post I wrote over a year ago ‘Ten Tips for Better SEO Linking‘ has been one of the blog’s largest and most consistent traffic driving posts. A blip in comments over the past week indicating it had found a [...]

Demographic of US social network users vs. UK Facebook users

Pew have released some new stats looking at the demographics of US social network use (brought to us courtesy of emarketer.com).
The research identified that social networks were still occupied by the y ounger audiences with 75% of respondents in the age group 18 - 24 saying they have used a social network. The next highest [...]

Twitter hits the big time

Last year we forecast that Twitter will be big in 2009, and so far we are being proven right. There is still no business plan available in the wild, the days of the fail whale seem to be behind them and it has become the stuff of major celebrities and big brands.
Twitter is now being [...]

Unpresidented(!) coverage - Barack Obama becomes President of the Internet

So what is the question of the day? How much coverage is he getting? Or, what’s the best news site to follow the inauguration on? Or, how are people ‘consuming’ President-elect-not-for-much-longer Obama?
At 1700 GMT (midday over in D.C.), Barack Obama will take the oath of office and deliver the inaugural address (as a closet fan [...]