Blog > July 2008

Google Search Is Broken

July 25th, 2008. Posted by

Just read a very interesting article on the future of search. The bottom line for me was pretty clear: Google Search is broken. Several of the core principles behind it are now obviously wrong. »


Driving The Web Away From Search

July 22nd, 2008. Posted by

I’m doing some analysis using the public search engines and I’m being presented with a lot of pages that are not what I’m looking for. The date of publication is sometimes wrong when I search over a specific time period, or the information is weak »


Gym Bunny

July 16th, 2008. Posted by
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My friend Damian has a 5 year old daughter called Lola. On Saturday, she left her favourite stuffed bunny at my house after a visit. They live just down the road from me, so  no biggie I thought, I’ll just drop the rabbit round. But first I think I’ll go for a swim at the Gym. »


You Just Can’t Beat Marks’ – Sorry Tesco And Sainsbury’s

July 14th, 2008. Posted by
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I don’t know about you – but growing up in the UK through the 80’s and 90’s (I wish it was later), I have an in-built love for Marks and Spencer. Yes, it’s true. »


Agile vs Well Planned

July 11th, 2008. Posted by

Much has been written about methods of developing software – books and books and blogs and blogs. I love the writing and thinking of Steve McConnell, although some of his observations can be a bit gloomy (top 2 mistakes almost always or often stated are 1 Overly optimistic schedules 77% and, 2 Unrealistic expectations 73%). »


Creating A Graph To Put On A Website

July 10th, 2008. Posted by
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I have some data. Not much. Just two rows and a few colums and I want to make a beautiful graph, turn it into a web-friendly image and put it on this blog.

How hard can that be? It turns out, way harder than it should be. One word aarrrgghh. »


The PURPOSE Of Social Search

July 7th, 2008. Posted by

Over the last 30 years, many tasks that humans once performed have been automated, encoded and passed over to computers. It’s the drive for efficiency that Bill Gates still talks about today. The internet however, never started off as a human-powered system so there was nothing to automate. But recently we have been witnessing the emergence of human-powered applications such as Social Search that are in some way competing with fully automated systems. »


Social Media

July 3rd, 2008. Posted by
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According to wikipedia “Social media is an umbrella term that defines the various activities that integrate technology, social interaction, and the construction of words and pictures. »


Brandwatching

July 3rd, 2008. Posted by
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Defining brand image as a multi-dimensional entity and working with individual dimensions explicitly has several important benefits, in both practical and conceptual terms. »


Why Do People Talk So Little About Some Big Brands

July 3rd, 2008. Posted by

Alan Mitchell wrote in Marketing Week last week about online peer-to-peer marketing. The central theme of his article is that it is early days for Marketeers in this space and that the web and p2p or c2c communication is throwing up some answers to questions that haven’t even been asked yet. »


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