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Brands and the Realtime Social Web

I spoke at a Mashup Event last Thursday. I was asked to talk about the ‘realtime web’ - and as some of my core interests are with how brands are engaging with the social web. I decided to cover how the transition to more realtime technologies has meant a decrease in ad-revenue, and how the [...]

3Feb2009 | admin | 3 comments | Continued

Scoble Interview + Geek Dinner

I was lucky enough to be invited along to a Geek Dinner which had some of the who’s who of the web 2.0/blogosphere including Robert Scoble, Dave Winer, Steve Clayton, Hugh MacLeod, David Sifry, Ian Forrester and probably lots more that I didn’t get a chance to talk with.
I turned up to the event [...]

24Dec2007 | Nick Halstead | 1 comment | Continued

Microsoft Calls the Kettle Black

I cannot believe the news this evening that Microsoft has been caught lobbying against Google stating that politicians, regulators and the media need to look at the issue of Googles ‘Dominance of search engines’. How can Microsoft number one monopoly holder feel justified to call out anyone else for the same thing!
Microsoft has always complained [...]

23Sep2007 | Nick Halstead | 3 comments | Continued

AuctionAd$ and favorite.me Update

I have been running my AuctionAd$ add-on on my blog for about 4 days now. For those who have not read the previous posts, not only does it dynamically change the keywords used within the advert, it also adjusts to display adverts for the more popular keywords more frequently.

Keyword

Weight

wii
14205

n95
17425

d80
1000

sp550
5710

802.11n
1285

umpc
12315

digital frame
1875

irobot
10370

So, for example, if you [...]

7May2007 | Nick Halstead | 0 comments | Continued

Internet World Show 2007 - My fun day

As I stated in the previous post I went into London today to visit the Internet World show at Earls Court. This was the last day of the show which I thought would be less busy and perhaps would have more freebies left to claim for my good readers.
How it started

As I walked out onto [...]

3May2007 | Nick Halstead | 1 comment | Continued

Internet World Show

I am off to the last day of the internetworld show at earls court today. The show is in central london and I live out in oxfordshire (surrounded by green stuff) so I have a fun journey ahead of me. The printers also screwed up yestarday and did not delivery some updated business cards I [...]

3May2007 | Nick Halstead | 0 comments | Continued
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