Tuesday, September 18, 2007
I was just reading through the Google Adwords help when I came across this screengrab from their targetting application. It seems that you can target Google ads by racial or ethnic background. I’m very interested in whether other people are surprised by this information. I’ve never heard of advertising being targetted like this, as explicitly [...]
Monday, September 17, 2007
About 20 million people seemed to have made it down to the South Bank this weekend for the Thames Festival, though it doesn’t seem to have got much news coverage. They closed Southwark Bridge on Saturday for a food fair, and it was so busy they had to stop people going up the steps from [...]
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
I’ve been having a conversation with a colleague at Agency.com about whether Facebook has established such a dominant position as the community site to use, that it won’t be knocked off that position. The idea we’re discussing is that so many people now use Facebook, that the hassle of moving would be too great for [...]
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
http://blog.markhopwood.com/wp-wap.php is the URL for my blog if you’re reading it on a mobile phone that doesn’t do HTML browsing. I’ve tested it and it works well, but please do feed back.
Monday, September 10, 2007
This is a movie of slides plus video from my presentation last Thursday. It was weird spending so much time listening to myself speaking again when I made this: I hope it sounds better to you than it did to me!
Friday, September 7, 2007
I participated in a discussion last night about property and web 2.0, sponsored by my friends at Zoomf.com. I presented a personal view of what we mean by web 2.0, and Mike Carter spoke about how it’s impacting the property business here and in the US. We were joined by Andy Etches from Brightsale and [...]
Thursday, September 6, 2007
Lots of people will already know that a lot of spam is sent from machines (sometimes called zombies, but mostly people using them are quite unaware) that have had a virus installed on them. This is common because it makes it harder for anti-spam software to spot which machines are sending what spam, and because [...]
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
In June I wrote about technology that is analysing music for record companies, and suggested that it would also be really useful in search and recommendation for end-users like us. Last.FM have just launched a version of their software that uses the same principals for track recognition, and the details are at Blognation. This isn’t [...]
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
I’m one of the panelists at tomorrow night’s seminar on Property and Web 2.0, hosted by Zoomf.com. There are a few spaces left, I gather. I’m giving an overview of what web 2.0 is, Mike Carter’s going to apply that to the property market, and the other panellists will be introducing their work as well. [...]
Saturday, September 1, 2007
at http://blog.markhopwood.com/i_love_web_2point0/
