The Way of the Web

DECEMBER 17, 2009

And with various studies and reports suggesting that up to 70% of people have done away with an alarm clock in favour of their mobile, we’re hoping the apps will be popular. blog comments powered by Disqus Blog Partners: Web Strategy Wikinomics Rankings ← Content farms most threaten UK media firms Minor WordPress 2.9

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iPhone Blogroll Applications Disqus 31

The Way of the Web

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Among mobile phone batteries, notebook batteries, there is only one battery that doesn't explode…… Watch this: [link] blog comments powered by Disqus Blog Partners: Web Strategy Wikinomics Rankings ← FriendsReunited advert – wtf? Here is another viral video for the “World's SAFEST Battery&#.

Blogroll 30

Blogroll Disqus Journal Conference 30

The Way of the Web

JULY 26, 2010

Web Strategy Wikinomics Rankings ← Watch Chatroulette jump the shark… Interested in mobile or internet privacy and security? Tags: Crowdsourcing · Digital Publishing · newspapers blog comments powered by Disqus Blog Partners: You can see more about it unfolding all the time.

Journal 28

Journal Crowdsourcing Blogroll Disqus 28

The Way of the Web

JULY 15, 2010

Live cross-platform mobile gaming arrives → Is Open Source the new black? Just as Open Source is ‘free as in free speech and not as in free beer’, it also takes as much effort as anything worthwhile – it just does it in different ways… Tags: open source blog comments powered by Disqus Blog Partners:

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Open Source Blogroll Fashion Disqus 30

The Way of the Web

JULY 17, 2010

Web Strategy Wikinomics Rankings ← Live cross-platform mobile gaming arrives Users dissatisfied with social networks – are you surprised? Tags: Digital Culture · social networks blog comments powered by Disqus Blog Partners:

Social Networking 33

Social Networking Blogroll Disqus Journal 33

The Way of the Web

JUNE 30, 2010

5 million activations a month, a focus on mobile first (as said by Eric Schmidt), and working across mobiles and the merging tablet market (in terms of tablets now getting mainstream coverage and adoption post iPad). Mobile is definitely the biggest advantage, although I disagree slightly on the integration of Adsense.

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Google Adsense MySpace Social Graph 32

The Way of the Web

JUNE 18, 2010

I may have ribbed them about the lack of a Symbian/BlackBerry/Windows Mobile version, but to be fair, the iPhone is a pretty logical choice for an app for a marketing event. Tags: events blog comments powered by Disqus Blog Partners: Disclosure: I had a couple of free beers.

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Blogger Eventful Marketing Conference 31

The Way of the Web

OCTOBER 12, 2010

It’s a testament to the team at One Golden Square that in the 14 months I’ve been there, we: Launched over 20 mobile applications which have had downloads in the millions, and driven sustained growth in mobile listening and engagement. Web Strategy Wikinomics Rankings ← Is Amazon reading this blog?

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Project Blogroll Paid Search Disqus 30

The Way of the Web

MAY 16, 2010

It includes the nice news that 713,000 Absolute Radio applications have now been downloaded to mobile phones, and people used them to listen to 215,000 hours of live audio (mobile development is one of the things I’m heavily involved in). Tags: Blogging blog comments powered by Disqus Blog Partners:

Google Reader 28

Google Reader Blogroll Disqus Journal 28

The Way of the Web

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

blog comments powered by Disqus Blog Partners: Data is valuable, and valuable things are a target for people to try and obtain via nefarious means.

Data 28

Data Company Proposal Blogroll 28

The Way of the Web

MAY 18, 2010

Web Strategy Wikinomics Rankings ← A rather busy week… HTML5 and a new mobile app from Absolute Radio → Bored of slogans? Tags: marketing blog comments powered by Disqus Blog Partners: Spin never cuts through, and passivity doesn’t get shared.

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Blogroll Disqus Journal RSS 28

The Way of the Web

JUNE 10, 2010

The Time sold 5,000 iPad apps in 3 days at £9.99, the Wall Street Journal has 10,000 customers paying $17.29 but still … and my eyes … blog comments powered by Disqus Blog Partners: a month (free to print/web subscribers), The Financial Times has had 130,000 downloads of it’s free application.

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iPad Apple Journal Applications 38

The Way of the Web

JUNE 22, 2010

But with the rise of mobile phones and mobile computing, I end up hearing some of their conversations, and can end up accidentally catching a glimpse of their details if they’re sat next to me. blog comments powered by Disqus Blog Partners: And 10 years ago, the only option was to either ignore it or confront them.

Crowdsourcing 29

Crowdsourcing Blogroll Disqus Journal 29

The Way of the Web

JULY 5, 2010

For example, the wristwatch has been coming under attack from the fact so many people use their mobile phone for checking the time (and a lot more). Meanwhile, the Journal Register company has been experimenting with producing online and print editions of their newspapers using only free tools.

Software 29

Software Open Source Journal Blogroll 29

The Way of the Web

JUNE 4, 2010

So in the past 2 weeks I’ve been at The Specialist Media Show (hosting a roundtable), The Open Mobile Summit (As a guest of Nokia), and M-Publishing (hosting another round table). Really interesting talks and debates, and a lot of fairly honest and open discussion about what has worked and what might not have succeeded in the mobile space.

Hosting 30

Hosting Conference Blogroll Mobile 30

The Way of the Web

DECEMBER 5, 2009

One is Absolute 80s , a new station which does what it says on the tin online, on DAB in London, and on your TV, mobile, etc. Right, time to go and do some voting on dabbl … Tags: absolute radio · radio blog comments powered by Disqus Blog Partners:

Blogroll 30

Blogroll Project Disqus Journal 30

The Way of the Web

JUNE 4, 2010

So in the past 2 weeks I’ve been at The Specialist Media Show (hosting a roundtable), The Open Mobile Summit (As a guest of Nokia), and M-Publishing (hosting another round table). Really interesting talks and debates, and a lot of fairly honest and open discussion about what has worked and what might not have succeeded in the mobile space.

Hosting 30

Hosting iPad Conference Mobile 30

The Way of the Web

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Tags: Digital Audio blog comments powered by Disqus Blog Partners:

Blogroll 28

Blogroll Applications Widget iPad 28

The Way of the Web

MAY 23, 2010

launch, we’ve found ourselves surfing the web more and more due to the fast and effective internet browsing, and using applications less than on a mobile (the larger screen size means applications aren’t as necessary). blog comments powered by Disqus Blog Partners: And having had iPads to use since the U.S

iPad 33

iPad Applications Blogroll Social Bookmarking 33

The Way of the Web

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Then we have mobile devices, most notably the iPhone, which opens up a gaming app world previously inaccessible to those embarrassed to be seen in public with a Nintendo DSi or Sony PSP. Tags: Digital Culture · Videogames · xbox 360 blog comments powered by Disqus Blog Partners:

Virtual World 29

Virtual World Microsoft Blogroll Mobile 29

The Way of the Web

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Having played around with Ping, it’s obviously an initial first step which is quite likely to increase sales purely by allowing social recommendation within iTunes, and the simplicity of it at the moment is particularly useful on mobile devices rather than the desktop. Good blogger outreach and is Worky worth trying?

Paid Search 29

Paid Search Blogroll Apple Disqus 29

The Way of the Web

DECEMBER 22, 2009

TheWayoftheWeb will continue as a personal commentary/memory aid/guide to social networks, marketing, mobile, videogames, technology and the media industry. Tags: Blogging blog comments powered by Disqus Blog Partners: Web Strategy Wikinomics Rankings ← Minor WordPress 2.9 Top Tip – either wait for the.1 so it’s not all bad news.

WordPress 31

WordPress FeedBurner Microblogging Posterous 31

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

10 Ways to Be a Great Social Media User (Search Engine Journal): Vince Blackham writes a great post on Search Engine Journal about how to be a great social media user, with tips such as contributing, diversifying your efforts, being real, being meaningful, and more. No, it’s not about the tools!) She has some great comparisons.

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Marketing SEO Journal Engineering 265

The Way of the Web

MARCH 15, 2010

Apparently 100+ local and regional newspapers vanished last year: “The advent of free newspapers, the emergence of 24-hour television news and the popularisation of online and mobile platforms have all contributed to a far more volatile and unstable environment for news organisations.” blog comments powered by Disqus Blog Partners:

Report 31

Report Google News Library 31

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Blog Comments (The blog is on WordPress) Disqus This is what I use to manage comments here at Convince & Convert. There are some elements of Disqus I don’t like, especially that it doesn’t always play nice with other plug-ins, but it does make commenting easier and faster for most of you who already have a Disqus account.

Social Media 167

Social Media Strategy Consultant Tweetdeck 167

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 17, 2010

Mark Thompson of Search Engine Journal has a great article entitled How To Find Industry Influencers. Look at Boring Stats — and Make Them Interesting This has a little to do with the Social Media platforms, but mostly with analytics. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca

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Communities Twitter Web 2.0 ROI 237

The Way of the Web

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

I like the phone but it comes with Windows Mobile. Tags: mobile [link] Andrew Girdwood I had my iPhone stolen a year ago. Web Strategy Wikinomics Rankings ← Not long to donate to Movember… The two digital publishing models of the near future → Has the iPhone jumped the shark? I went with a Sony Ericsson X1.

iPhone 28

iPhone Smart Phone Blogroll Disqus 28

The Way of the Web

JANUARY 10, 2010

And almost everyone attending CES has a device capable of recording decent video content – whether it’s quick mobile footage, a handheld like a Flip Mino HD or Kodak Zi8 , or something higher up the professional recording level ladder like the Canon 5D. blog comments powered by Disqus Blog Partners: The way of the web [.]

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Microblogging Blogroll Disqus Journal 29

The Way of the Web

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

It’s now backed up by Windows Mobile 7 including Xbox Live. blog comments powered by Disqus Blog Partners: Web Strategy Wikinomics Rankings ← Should PR and Marketing pay bloggers to post? A world of gamers: I’ve written before about why the time is now right for pervasive social gaming.

Platform 31

Platform Flickr Badge Blogroll 31

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

social conversation tools (FriendFeed, and maybe you could even lump in Disqus and the like with it). Also interesting is the “digital nomad&# trend – increasingly mobile computing, from laptops to cell phones and beyond. Ed Reply Social Marketing Journal July 15, 2008 at 6:13 pm This content is amazing!

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Social Media Marketing Consultant Communities 163

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 14, 2009

Online SEO Tools: The Ultimate Collection : At Search Engine Journal, Ann Smarty has compiled a list of the most valuable tools to perform SEO analysis. Analytics: 8 Awesome Google Analytics Hacks, Tips, and Tricks offers tips on how to get more out of Google Analytics rather than what comes out of the box.

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SEO Social Media Marketing Reputation 162

The Way of the Web

AUGUST 12, 2010

Mobile – see above, although the potential of paid apps means free content might be harder to find… TV on demand – allowing you to fill up your leisure time more effectively if that’s your choice. Gaming – whether social, console, mobile, or PC, gaming is a huge market and a big source of entertainment time.

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iPad Yahoo Flipboard Social Graph 29