Further to my post on the subject earlier this month, the Guardian reports the Information Commissioner’s Office has said it’s satisfied Google’s doing its utmost to safeguard people’s privacy as it rolls out its new service.
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Monthly Archives: July 2008
Social Media As Business Influencer & Earthquake Alert
Lee Odden’s got a great thread going on his Internet Marketing Blog on how business is done via Social Networks, and which are the most influential. He’s set up a poll which has some interesting results. LinkedIn – is coming out top, but only just ahead of Twitter, the micro-blogging service – http://twitter.com/melcarson – and Facebook is coming in with 20% of the vote.
Does A Successful Business Need A Website?
My local pub in Richmond has re-opened after a whole year being re-furbished. I took a friend there last week to check it out and it was buzzing. Now quite fancy, it has a pricey menu and throbbing wine list. I had pigs trotters stuffed with foie gras, not exactly pub-grub but scrummy nevertheless.
One Year Blogging For Media Week
Tomorrow is the 1st anniversary of my first post on DigiTales.
In 157 posts, as the tagline says, I’ve tried to bring “stories and insight from the digital media space back down to earth…”
Top traders are not just a bunch of Rotweillers
I’ve often wondered what it would be like to be a fly on the wall during a negotiation between Gary Digby, the combative but highly respected managing director of ITV Customer Relations, and the likes of Mark Collins, managing director, broadcast at Group M; Steve Platt, trading director at Aegis Media, or Chris Locke, UK group trading director at Starcom.
Indian Fisherman Catch Mobile Phone Fever
Read a fascinating piece by Tim Harford in BA’s Business Life Magazine (can’t find a link anywhere!) about how the mobile phone has transformed the fortunes of fisherman trawling the 400 miles of Kerala coast in India.
Chips off the old blocks
Good to see that McCain, home of the oven chip, has signed a five-year £5m deal to sponsor UK Athletics.
Never mind all this new-fangled nonsense about macro-biotic diets and high-performance athletes. The humble oven chip’s the thing to drive us on to glory at the 2012 Olympics…!
Did I Get Through A Holiday Without The Internet?
Not quite….but nearly!
Spread-eagled by a pool in rural south-west France it’s easy to not want to have internet access. After all, our lives seem to be ruled by email and the need for immediate-response communication.
It’s the young bloods who will drive media
There is no doubt that media is a people business. Talk to staff at media agencies or media owners about what attracted them to media, or what they enjoy most, and they invariably plump for the people factor.
