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Monthly Archives: October 2007

News International preparing to launch vertical search businesses

News International is (according to this article) about to launch a vertical search engine focussed on the UK property market. To some, this might seem like a fairly uninteresting development in online property advertising. There are lots of property websites in the UK, Rightmove being the most prominent. Zoomf (who I’m involved with as a [...]

New Charles Tyrwhitt store has gone live

Charles Tyrwhitt have just launched their new online store, which Agency.com helped to develop the user experience for. It was a collaboration with Javelin Group, and a host of e-commerce technologies are used, including:

Mercado, for the structured product search and merchandising
Scene 7 for the product image presentation
Feefo for the user reviews of products

As an occasional [...]

Emailvision – seminar at the Institute of Directors

I’ve known the people at Emailvision for 6 years, and have worked with them on several occasions, as a client and as a consultant. The company has grown amazingly, especially over the last couple of years. This morning I was at the Institute of Directors for their breakfast seminar about version 6 of the Campaign [...]

You know you’re a geek when…

You understand why this car’s license plate is significant…

…or you get this cartoon…

Anything to add?

Dopplr – coding on the shoulders of giants

This is a great presentation I picked up yesterday, from the team at Dopplr. It’s somewhat technical, and useful for developers for that reason, but it’s making some important points about business trends as well.

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The first big point is that you don’t have to build a huge online service [...]

BA’s terminal 5 preview site is live

After a great deal of effort from a cast of hundreds (well, almost) we’ve launched British Airways’ preview site for Heathrow Terminal 5, which opens next year. It’s a feast of interactive content, showing all aspects of what’s going to be an amazing place to travel through. Some of the team have had visits already, [...]

Jiglu – automated tagging for bloggers

Yesterday I read about Jiglu, a plug-in for blogs that reads content and creates tagging data for it, automatically. Tagging is an important, necessary, and occassionally tedious activity that people with blogs carry out, and it’s hard to say whether you’ve done it intelligently or not. Tags are used by people reading sites (for example [...]

Why Innocent became a ranger

This article was written by Innocent, who is the Chief of Gorilla Monitoring for ICCN in Congo. It’s an account of why and how he became a ranger, and his career so far. He wrote it because his team can’t go out to work, because of the civil war there.
I wanted to post a link [...]

Article on business blogging – October 2007 Revolution Magazine

My article for Revolution Magazine has been published. It feels like I wrote it months ago, which I guess is one of the big differences between blogging and writing for a print magazine. Anyway, this is the text of what I wrote:
A couple of recent conversations got me thinking about the potential for business blogging. [...]

Attempt to sabotage blog action day is unmasked

Someone was surely trying to create an “all environmentalists are insane” story when they announced this morning that the UK Government was trying to get us all to switch from fresh to UHT milk. Had this story been true (apparently it isn’t) the outrage would’ve sent greens throughout the UK scurrying into holes, [...]