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Interview With Matt Colebourne, CEO of coComment
March 10th, 2008
Farhad Divecha, Director of AccuraCast interviewed Matt Colebourne, CEO of coComment to find out more about his company, the advantages of unified conversation management and the future of blogging worldwide. The conversation took some very interesting turns, especially when the discussion turned to censorship and how services like coComment could help or hurt vulnerable groups in third world countries. Read the rest of this entry »
Facebook Clamps Down On Sneaky Application Promotion
January 3rd, 2008
Starting from the 1st of January, Facebook will block links in Mini-Feed, Notifications, and Notification Emails which lead to the installation of another application. The announcement made on the Facebook Developers blog hopes to focus developers on user experience and engagement rather than deceiving users in an attempt to grow the popularity of their apps. Read the rest of this entry »
Google Checkout Overtakes Paypal In UK
December 28th, 2007
A recent report from Hitwise found that traffic to Google Checkout has overtaken PayPal in the first two weeks of December and has held its lead since then. The number of downstream visitors from Google Checkout has also grown rapidly, which might indicate that while people visit the site they don’t necessarily buy using Google Checkout. Read the rest of this entry »
Season’s Greetings
December 25th, 2007
Merry Christmas & a very Happy New Year to all our readers! Enjoy the little festive video we have picked for you… Read the rest of this entry »
News Corp May Acquire LinkedIn
November 29th, 2007
A post on the popular TechCrunch UK blog indicated that a possible takeover of the fast growing social network, LinkedIn, by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp may be in the pipeline. Read the rest of this entry »
New Rumours Surface - Microsoft Might Buy Yahoo!
November 16th, 2007
Kevin Johnson, President of Platforms and Services Division at Microsoft, leads over 12,000 employees responsible for product development, marketing and strategy for the Windows and Online Services businesses. At the UBS Investor Conference in Seattle on Thursday, Kevin outlined Microsoft’s ambition to grow their online search business to 30 percent. Read the rest of this entry »
Google Maps Gets New Logo
November 15th, 2007
Localisation and personalisation have been Google’s mantra for 2007. Google personalised home rebranded to iGoogle and got its own logo in May. Localised results with mini-maps made their way into the organic search results page as far back as November last year. And now Google Maps has got its own new logo. Read the rest of this entry »
Official Google Announcement: Forget GPhone. Hello Android
November 6th, 2007
2.7 Billion people could potentially use Google’s latest offering next year. It is not the highly speculated GPhone. Instead, Google yesterday announced the Open Handset Alliance and the Android open platform for mobile devices. Read the rest of this entry »
Yahoo! UK Becoming A Distant Second
November 2nd, 2007
Hitwise data for September 2007 shows that Yahoo! served only 4.91 per cent of all Internet searches in the UK, Microsoft served 3.95 per cent and Ask.com got 3.55 per cent. There is only one clear leader in the UK search market, and its lead is growing by the day. Read the rest of this entry »
AdMob Launches Facebook Mobile Advertising
November 1st, 2007
Facebook Platform for Mobile allows developers to build applications that integrate with Facebook via user profiles and canvas as well as through SMS. Application developers can now monetise their apps by including mobile advertising from AdMob. Read the rest of this entry »
AdWords Keyword Analysis Tool Diagnoses Quality Score
October 23rd, 2007
Inside AdWords, the official Google AdWords blog announced the availability of a new keyword analysis tool yesterday. The new tool builds on information presented in the already available keyword status tool, which told advertisers whether their ads were being served or not. Read the rest of this entry »
Google News App On Facebook Doesn’t Quite Cut It
October 22nd, 2007
Facebook Applications allow third-party programmers to create useful or entertaining little widgets that can be integrated into a person’s Facebook account. Google News has released a Facebook app that allows users to read news, post stories to their profile and share news with their friends. Read the rest of this entry »
