I have been soo busy recently, I got out of doing the blog thing. I saw the blog as a potential mouth piece and also I enjoyed the book by Biz Stone of Google for writing and publishing "Who let the blogs out", as stated in my debut blog.
For my part I have been doing a lot with the business, changing things, refocussing that kind of thing and also, mainly streamlining and preparing the way forward. I have had some personal changes too and all these things have conspired to take me away from the blog.
In my opinion, sad though it is perhaps, and nothing to do with search, the best thing that has happened in the last few months is the IPOD Nano. I have of course met some very interesting people and done a few things myself and for the company, but I cannot talk about them.
Back to the blog, I am about to re-establish the Weboptimiser newsfeed and soon I will be commenting on the stories again. Thanks for those that have responded and I apologise to those readers that find spam appearing on my blog. I have done my best to take them out...
Monday, October 10, 2005
Saturday, April 02, 2005
Cool product, urchin has some advanced features, we reckon that Google is going to give it away, which will dent the analytics market, but be very good for hard pressed internet marketeers. I just hope the users take a free product seriously enough, it was already one of the lowest cost. Yet at a cost to Google of $30m that makes it an expensive giveaway, if that is what happens. Respect in any case, cool product, munches through huge log files with ease.
Sunday, March 20, 2005
Support for Jamie Oliver and his Feed Me Better campaign
Sign up now and register a vote for the Feed Me Better campaign, click here to vote
Jamie's School Dinners is all about making radical change to the school meals system and challenging the junk food culture. Showing how schools can serve fresh nutritious meals that kids enjoy eating will make the difference. It is already too far gone that the only strategy left is to name and shame.
What we eat affects everything. Mood, behaviour, health, growth, even our ability to concentrate. A lunchtime school meal should provide a growing child with one third of their daily nutritional intake. But the processed junk foods served in most school dining halls these days don't. Read about the problem and act.
They say that "you are what you eat". Well, Feed Me Better applies to animals too. Check out this cool animation that explores the perils of factory farming. Take it a step further and learn more about the terror of factory farming at the www.themeatrix.com
Finally if you have something to say and you are not sure how to say it, go to the top and email the PM.
Jamie's School Dinners is all about making radical change to the school meals system and challenging the junk food culture. Showing how schools can serve fresh nutritious meals that kids enjoy eating will make the difference. It is already too far gone that the only strategy left is to name and shame.
What we eat affects everything. Mood, behaviour, health, growth, even our ability to concentrate. A lunchtime school meal should provide a growing child with one third of their daily nutritional intake. But the processed junk foods served in most school dining halls these days don't. Read about the problem and act.
They say that "you are what you eat". Well, Feed Me Better applies to animals too. Check out this cool animation that explores the perils of factory farming. Take it a step further and learn more about the terror of factory farming at the www.themeatrix.com
Finally if you have something to say and you are not sure how to say it, go to the top and email the PM.
Thursday, March 03, 2005
Great news for everyone, open source is to be applauded by everyone.
Teoma does it again! I have met Paul Gardi, Mr Teoma... As Senior Vice President of Strategy & Growth Initiatives, Paul Gardi is responsible for leading the development, communication, implementation and measurement of Ask Jeeves’ strategic business plan for the United States and internationally. He is also responsible for Ask Jeeves external communications regarding search technology. Prior to this new position, Gardi was senior vice president of search and general manager of Teoma. He was responsible for guiding Ask Jeeves’ search technology as well as the development, growth and integration of Teoma Technologies into Ask Jeeves, Inc. Gardi served as president of Teoma Technologies prior to Ask Jeeves’ acquisition of the company.
The rules of registration should be comprehensive and up to date, there have been several new extensions launched, some have worked out well. Should be nothing to worry about, if you want to protect your company name, just buy the url. Looking forward to see how this pans out.
Interesting, protection from click fraud is definitely needed, even if you look at pay per click from a cost per acquisition basis, click fraud erodes margins and ultimately is set to upset Googles market, even Google CFO George Reyes recently told CNN: "I think something has to be done about (click fraud) really, really quickly, because I think, potentially, it threatens our business model."
Monday, February 28, 2005
Excellent news... The UN hopes that widening access to technology such as mobile phones and the net will help eradicate poverty
This is nothing new, buyer beware is the caveat applied to everything you shop, whereever you shop. There are scam artists in all industries and mediums not just online, in the real world and in nature too.
Yeah right! I get it, download a plug in to succeed. Won't happen. They'll have 10 users in weeks, good luck to 'em. Now if they harnessed the Macromedia plug in - idea waiting to be knicked!
OK, watching brief on this one. We'll see if they manage to scare the market or sort it out. I reckon this will just feed the market place with worries, yet it needs to be done, there should be a way for people to find out. Virus's do damage business and it does cost money to fix. Or upgrade to an Apple computer!
Friday, February 25, 2005
Classically punters are trying to call the market, this is great news. It demonstrates that there is a market if the market is perceived to be controlled by investors, when we take a taxi and hear the driver is investing - as last time, that will be the peak of the bubble!
This is all over the world, not just Japan. This has got to be something that someone could find a commercial solution for, afterall, fear sells, what is taking the time on this?
In my view there are just not enough, we need more channels, more routes to market, not less, competition rules!
Too right, it is a great medium for communication, provided that the writers are not too uptight. Buy who let the blogs out and read all about it...
Saturday, February 19, 2005
What happened to RSS? has it really taken off? It seems it is a technology too far, a technology that on the surface looks great, but in fact just does not motivate people to use it. A classic non sexy technology... Maybe the reasons are similar to those that are behind the delay of News companies introducing RSS readers. Hey maybe it is just about to take off, maybe this is what RSS is waiting for, lets wait and see... Thoughts?
As I have said before there is a shortage of online channels and that is why there is a lot of interest in this - one of the last bastions, perhaps. But a sealed bid process is that really the way forward? I think that reflects on the management of the business and demonstrates that they do not care, they do not plan to run it, they are just looking for money, which is OK for the management, but what about the staff and then, as a result, the product itself. Will this signal a huge purchase followed by a huge disaster. What a caring world we live in.
Truly, madly, MAD!! Hey I know, lets stop the free marketing...
We live in an online world where all the great names are gone and mostly unused, I for one welcome the availability of a tool that lets us know where we can pcik up great domains...
Thursday, February 17, 2005
I can vouch for that. BT openworld is one of the worse sites in the world. They offer a Mac service, then their engineers do not have any knowledge of what a Mac is!
Maybe they may rethink their compatibility with the Mac and start making some friends.
Or if you call trailfinders, they will do it for you...
Saturday, February 05, 2005
Thursday, February 03, 2005
That is top in our field and I got to have lunch with Chris Ingram founder of CIA and Genesis. Great speech, nice bloke.
From the email I get, it is positively obscene. Wham, bam, no thank you spam.
THE CATHEDRAL AND THE BAZAAR
Whereami?
Wednesday, February 02, 2005
spam, spam, spam...
- More pills and sex than mortgages at the moment - apparently to reflect the lack of interest in financial services. However, now is the beginning of financial fever, this is the first of two quarters where finance goes bolistic! Beware financial spam is acoming.
I thought they were already a top level DNS server... Certainly yahoo seems to get a lot of business through offering low cost hosting services and I believe that yahoo has been hiding this. Or at least this could be what Google thinks. In any case, I cannot see hwo they can lose? Worst case scenario, they are covering off another base in the look like Yahoo scenario - who still has a bigger business than Google.
I always wonder if the whole spam thing was brought on us by email protection systems... Apparently this type of company employ former spammers. So it would seem that there is a career path for them, based on the argument that they need to employ people in the know. I saw that on the telly a while back, so it must be true.
Tuesday, February 01, 2005
In my view this could be the beginning of something big. That is if they can see the value of setting up online communities. Hey guys at Business.com - give me a shout if you'd have me run that for you.
There goes another deal I would love to have, this is big bucks, man.
Should be an awkward experience.
Yeah - another! No, seriously, more search engines allow us to look in new ways. New views provide new opportunities.
Friday, January 28, 2005
- should be fun to see how this pans out, every attempt to regulate has had difficulties so far, although when perpetrators are caught, there seems to be just a few offenders...
OK so they can tick the box with another feature, but as it only works in certain situations, in a certain manner with a certain operating system - why bother - this is just a feature exercise for cheap PR
Now this should be good, although I have read that the kids are using less mobile technology nowadays, but very obvious opportunity to get a fee per click and this can be shared with the operator, so this is a win / win. We'll see how this works, we might actually have an internet enabled feature that does something!
- Now this is big news, really big news, this adds something different to search where search is literally mapping the real world. Wow things are starting to happen.
Thursday, January 27, 2005
Here we go again, haven't they got enough money?
- haw haw haw
Go Apple - I have met Steve Jobs!
Tuesday, January 25, 2005
Yahoo & Google video it whilst toolbar boosts traffic
Visit Yahoo! now and you can try it out for yourself. I typed my name into it and found a lot of David videos which surprised me.
Elsewhere there is talk of Google launching Video services, sames like a familiar me too, but knowing Google, they will make a good go of it.
This reads more like an expose of how to promote toolbars, 700 downloads is an enviable feat, but still not so many as I would want to talk about.
Go Firefox! I know the guy who designed your logo.
Monday, January 24, 2005
MSN Dumps Yahoo, Google changes and Advertising
After AOL moves away from Google to Fast (Yahoo!) now MSN moves from Yahoo to itself. We will be looking closely to see if Inktomi or Overture results (both Yahoo!) are contained with in the results.
- and that can't be a bad thing.
This is a good thing.
Doh!
Friday, January 21, 2005
Internet marketing news
- AOL launches new search engine
Great news for professional seo firms! It will be interesting to see how Google looks after changes under foot. How much past the tipping point are we? - Friendster signs ad deal with DoubleClick
DoubleClick's DART for Publishers solution is regarded as the most robust and scalable. Friendster currently has around 13 million registered users. - China to overtake US for net use
Hey guys we are in China, lets hook up. - Warning issued over wi-fi 'evil twins'
Wifi is where its at, freedom to roam appeals to the most basic instincts.
Thursday, January 20, 2005
Internet marketing news commentary
Boom for legal music downloads sectorThe market for legal music downloads has taken off
With Apple selling 4.5 million iPods in the last quarter, this is hardly a surprise - but where are Sony on this, the creators of Walkman culture... It never ceases to amaze me that Sony and all of their R & D building the very best Walkman allowed Apple to walk in and just start selling iPods from under their noses. We know now of course that Steve Jobs - yep - I have met him - had all the contacts via pixar/disney, but hey didn't Sony. Sony - there is still time! Bring it on
blinkx unveils TV search engine Search company blinkx has launched the first search engine that enables personal computer users to search TV across news.
This is an interesting one, I love their smart folders, not that this is a particularly new idea, but it is great to see intelligent agents at work within software, as part of the overall package and the package itself leaving it up to us to work out just what it is that you do with it, like so many other software - I'll come back with an example on this when I next stumble across - limited intelligence. By the way, I hope I can't find an example and that will be a sign that we have moved on. I guess I can always produce a retro intelligent agent....
Search firms team up to tackle blog spam Search giants Yahoo!, Google and MSN have joined forces in order to fight weblog comment spam.
I know I am criticising my own news here, but heck you don't think I write the news do you? Anyone, does anyone know what this story is about...
Advertising boom boosts Yahoo! profits Internet firm Yahoo! has announced that its fourth-quarter profits more than doubled at the end of last year.
When I have looked really closely at Yahoo profits in the past I have found that their profits are boosted by what appears to be sales of banner ads... this er, press release says that too. Conventional wisdom my side of the pond tends to suggest that banner ads don't work. Sales houses have shrunk, double click has well, clicked and when I look through the site I don't see many banner ads - is it my IP address, am I blind or has my BS detector come on, and there is something else I should be looking at... Where are they getting that kind of revenue from really? I would understand more and find it a lot more palatable if they said that it was following the acquisition of Overture and all that pay per click revenue was pulling in the dollars, that would be great for them to say that. Is that the case and they are shying away? go figure.
With Apple selling 4.5 million iPods in the last quarter, this is hardly a surprise - but where are Sony on this, the creators of Walkman culture... It never ceases to amaze me that Sony and all of their R & D building the very best Walkman allowed Apple to walk in and just start selling iPods from under their noses. We know now of course that Steve Jobs - yep - I have met him - had all the contacts via pixar/disney, but hey didn't Sony. Sony - there is still time! Bring it on
This is an interesting one, I love their smart folders, not that this is a particularly new idea, but it is great to see intelligent agents at work within software, as part of the overall package and the package itself leaving it up to us to work out just what it is that you do with it, like so many other software - I'll come back with an example on this when I next stumble across - limited intelligence. By the way, I hope I can't find an example and that will be a sign that we have moved on. I guess I can always produce a retro intelligent agent....
I know I am criticising my own news here, but heck you don't think I write the news do you? Anyone, does anyone know what this story is about...
When I have looked really closely at Yahoo profits in the past I have found that their profits are boosted by what appears to be sales of banner ads... this er, press release says that too. Conventional wisdom my side of the pond tends to suggest that banner ads don't work. Sales houses have shrunk, double click has well, clicked and when I look through the site I don't see many banner ads - is it my IP address, am I blind or has my BS detector come on, and there is something else I should be looking at... Where are they getting that kind of revenue from really? I would understand more and find it a lot more palatable if they said that it was following the acquisition of Overture and all that pay per click revenue was pulling in the dollars, that would be great for them to say that. Is that the case and they are shying away? go figure.
Saturday, January 15, 2005
Blog Debut
As a coalface online marketeer, I've been blogging for years. I just didn't know it. By posting on tech forums such as Webmaster World where I am known as perlcoder and Search engine watch where I try to hide my true identity by calling myself davidatweboptimiser and my entries at Ecademy and Ryze where I am known as me, I have done all the things that blogging is. But this is more direct, so maybe there is a difference and now I enter the world of real bloggers!
If you knew me at any of these places, you would have done very well, as I have not posted often. My wife describes me as a workaholic and I am a fully fledged techy, man manager and business owner. I am time poor. Visit my search engine marketing site. So why now? I reckon it is now that I feel I have put so much into the Internet and know so much about the way it works that I should develop a voice that goes beyond just coding and business, some way of talking outside, in a way that should not affect my relationships with the bank, investors, customers, competitors, colleagues, former employees, bosses, sons, former and current spouse. (Note: when my wife read this, she started referring to me as her first husband... oops!) If any of you read this, hello and if I put my foot in it, call me first and I'll edit it out! To an extent you could say that this has been the big limitation behind not going public with my thoughts and feelings in the past!
So now I can talk out loud the first thing I would like to do is congratulate Biz Stone of Google for writing and publishing "Who let the blogs out ". I thought Biz was a woman, but my wife merely pointed to the undoubtedly masculine photo on the back of the book and raised her eyebrows.... Anyway, it brought me right up to date with all the core sites out there and inspired me to set up this blog - his objective, I think, and that is why I am here working on my Apple laptop in the living room wearing my Google T shirt, while listening to my Google radio, and illuminating the whole, happy scene with a Google light. (Later, I'll go out in my Google scarf, but that's enough of that!)- I only have two types of T shirt and they say either Apple or Google. I have met Steve Jobs. (Wife: 'you said what?)
So my blog, what is it about? I often read the news on my search engine optimization site ( I know shameless keyword laden plug - but that is what bogs are about - hyperlinks to stuff). Often I read it for the first time like you would on the site - I don't write it. I find it really interesting. We have some really good coverage going on there and have done for years, we lost the first few archives (doh) and so here we are building it up again and already we have 1000's of pages in Google, so it's doing its stuff and it's all real, genuine and original apart from the things we make up which mainly occur on April 1st. Anyway, the point is that my blog is about that news. I have other news sites too, try this one: UK sport news, but I am not really a sports fanatic, but I have loads of things I am always bursting to say about my industry - internet marketing. So now, like it or not, here I go. I plan to write about what I think needs to be said.
Naturally I hope you enjoy my blog. Thanks for reading, I look forward to seeing you again, soon.
If you knew me at any of these places, you would have done very well, as I have not posted often. My wife describes me as a workaholic and I am a fully fledged techy, man manager and business owner. I am time poor. Visit my search engine marketing site. So why now? I reckon it is now that I feel I have put so much into the Internet and know so much about the way it works that I should develop a voice that goes beyond just coding and business, some way of talking outside, in a way that should not affect my relationships with the bank, investors, customers, competitors, colleagues, former employees, bosses, sons, former and current spouse. (Note: when my wife read this, she started referring to me as her first husband... oops!) If any of you read this, hello and if I put my foot in it, call me first and I'll edit it out! To an extent you could say that this has been the big limitation behind not going public with my thoughts and feelings in the past!
So now I can talk out loud the first thing I would like to do is congratulate Biz Stone of Google for writing and publishing "Who let the blogs out ". I thought Biz was a woman, but my wife merely pointed to the undoubtedly masculine photo on the back of the book and raised her eyebrows.... Anyway, it brought me right up to date with all the core sites out there and inspired me to set up this blog - his objective, I think, and that is why I am here working on my Apple laptop in the living room wearing my Google T shirt, while listening to my Google radio, and illuminating the whole, happy scene with a Google light. (Later, I'll go out in my Google scarf, but that's enough of that!)- I only have two types of T shirt and they say either Apple or Google. I have met Steve Jobs. (Wife: 'you said what?)
So my blog, what is it about? I often read the news on my search engine optimization site ( I know shameless keyword laden plug - but that is what bogs are about - hyperlinks to stuff). Often I read it for the first time like you would on the site - I don't write it. I find it really interesting. We have some really good coverage going on there and have done for years, we lost the first few archives (doh) and so here we are building it up again and already we have 1000's of pages in Google, so it's doing its stuff and it's all real, genuine and original apart from the things we make up which mainly occur on April 1st. Anyway, the point is that my blog is about that news. I have other news sites too, try this one: UK sport news, but I am not really a sports fanatic, but I have loads of things I am always bursting to say about my industry - internet marketing. So now, like it or not, here I go. I plan to write about what I think needs to be said.
Naturally I hope you enjoy my blog. Thanks for reading, I look forward to seeing you again, soon.
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