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Posts Tagged Web Culture

Google Base

Well, it’s interesting. I’m going to have to sit and play with it properly at some point, but it’s certainly an interesting idea. One thouht occurs: it’s a move away from social networking, back to a more web-tradtional approach - the idea here is not that you share content with a taste-tribe or […]


Design 2.0

Web 2.0 isn’t even properly here yet, and already I’m bored of the design style. I mean, I know that design goes in trends, and by late 2006, all the new launching stuff will look different, but I’m now heartily sick of sites with a white/cream background, and then pale blue, green and orangeused […]


Now that’s interesting…

Especially given the industry I’m currently working in, I think it’s interesting that an unsigned indie band have sold 17,000 copies of their self-released album, netting them rather a lot more than it would have if they’d released it through a label…


Search Engine Optimisation and Free Information

Two unrelated links - Ethical Search Engine Optimisation. As some of you might know, my career started out when I was hired by was was effectively the marketing and SEO arm of a major web agency. (And yes, some years later, I worked for a permission based email marketing outfit, and now I […]


The Comet Effect

Sixapart announce Comet, which sounds like the reasonably predicatable fusion of Moveable Type blogging and Livejournal that’s been been on the cards since they bought LJ. There’s some talk of better media integration than current blogging tools provide, and it’s certainly something I’ll watch with interest, but I do wonder what the point […]


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