This post has probably been written 56,341,463 times before, but this post is for me, not for you (ok, maybe you can read it too). Facebook is due to announce some plans for some location stuff tonight (none of the other 56,341,463 posts are as technical as this one, I know) and everyone is speculating [...]
I was digging through the internet last night looking for interesting videos on the digital world and stumbled across this mental Romanian video from a few years back featuring Faris Yakob and Iain Tait! It’s a pretty good interview (bar the incredibly loud sound effects between scenes) and Iain makes some interesting points about where [...]
Social media, and in particular, social networks, are a mental mess of ‘big data‘. Photos, text, links, videos, podcasts, FarmVille – our online lives have become busy to say the least. When we originally signed up to the internet (bad terminology) we looked for people that we already knew (from real life) and people that [...]
Google knows all about you. Yeah right, you know this, but do you know how much? It knows how many times you’ve been rick-rolled (YouTube), it knows that you have an unhealthy obsession with Gogol (Google Books), that you spend your working day flicking between 4Chan and textsfromlastnight (Chrome) and that you don’t read any [...]
Social media monitoring is a complete waste of resources. Total waste of money, time and understanding. Yep. You know why? I’m guessing by now you’re either really intrigued or really angry. Hopefully both. Social media monitoring is completely useless without context or clear outputs. What are outputs? Your next steps once you capture something. What [...]
Measurement is something I love writing about – web measurement in particular, but I also like rulers and sextants. (And they said I’d never get the word ‘sextant’ into a blog post! I’ll show them!!!) Anyway, while I was away I finished reading Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s Fooled By Randomness and in the final few pages [...]
Sentiment analysis is, for me, one of the most annoying phrases in the world (as you may have seen me tweet to Matt the other day). Whenever I hear someone mention it I picture two guys in cheap suits speaking to a group of board members at a big brand explaining complicated graphs and pointing [...]
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Hello. If you read Becca’s blog or my Twitter feed you’ll have realised by now that we’re going on holiday. It’s our first holiday since September 2009 so we’re understandably quite excited. By quite excited, we packed our suitcases last Friday. We don’t fly until Wednesday. Excited is an understatement. So we’ll be leaving for [...]
I’ve always been a big believer in having individual communities for individual interests, yet I’ve always maintained quite a homogenous collection of networks. In fact ask any of my Wolfstar employees and any one of them could name a time when I stood up and declared “I only have my own self, split across multiple [...]
Everyone knows that I’m a lot bit of a geek when it comes to network theory and the internet (basically because the internet makes understanding networks about 8,345,134 times easier). So when Facebook announced OpenGraph I practically wet myself. Now this isn’t going to be a post about how Facebook OpenGraph will make the web [...]
With more and more being written and pontificated about the semantic web (could it work, will it work, will it free me from work, etc) I feel it’s appropriate to jump in feet first without really knowing much and shout out some ideas. First up to bat… Google could forcibly introduce a type of semantic [...]
So this weekend was perfect. In the truest sense of the word. Here’s why… Friday – an evening in with Becca Caddy and Lost (we were catching up before the finale on Monday at 5am). Saturday – I woke up (naturally) at 5am, attacked a PowerPoint, made it bleed. Had breakfast with Becca on the [...]