Friday, November 16, 2007
http://adverlab.blogspot.com/2007/11/ad-zappers-for-facebook.html lists a variety of plug-ins for Firefox that will remove contextual ads from your Facebook experience. It might get a bit tricky charging for ads that are being removed at the browser. Whether they’re counted as valid ad impressions before they’re removed isn’t made clear in the article.
Monday, November 12, 2007
This article in Director (the monthly magazine of the Institute of Directors) contrasts the start-up options of the US with those of the UK. The US situation sounds extremely favourable: Rents are low Investors are very open to investing in start-ups Bright people want to work in start-ups, rather than big established businesses The market [...]
As part of its recent design upgrade, the team at Zoomf.com has introduced a very interesting new feature: the ability to search visually within a defined polygon on a map. Here’s an example. Here’s how it works: Go to http://www.zoomf.com and start a property search (e.g. type in “NW3″ and press search) Once you’re looking [...]
This article at the Economist makes some very strong points about Facebook as a business, and is well worth reading. Given that the whole value of the company is in its right to market to its users, the value of that marketing really has to be thought through. Lots of people are predicting Facebook will [...]
Thursday, October 25, 2007
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 [...]
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
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. | View | Upload your own The first big point is that you don’t have to build a huge online [...]
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
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 [...]
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 [...]
