Jed Hallam

Posts Tagged ‘Search’

Google knows EVERYTHING about you

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 [...]

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Sentiment analysis and the problem with computational analysis

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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Social media ROI: Benchmarking campaigns with search

Social media ROI is a contentious issue. Everyone argues with each other. No one gets any wiser. The client ends up thinking you’re pulling the wool over their eyes. Bad times. This basically means that a lot of ‘digital consultants’ try and find new ways of measuring effectiveness of online activity. Page views, bounce rate, [...]

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Don’t be evil, or at least try not to be, then fail

I was sat all calm and relaxed on the train back from the Quest TV pub quiz and I thought ‘hey, I’ll read my feeds’. Good call. Except I hadn’t anticipated Steven Finch’s latest post over at Crenk. *Cue shocking orchestral noises* Lock your doors and bolt the windows, the worlds biggest information bank is [...]

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Oops. Reading list

So, a few days ago I promised that I’d post a list of stuff I was reading every Tuesday. It’s now Wednesday and I haven’t posted a list. Good work Jed, really top draw. So, without further ado;

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Website Room 101

Ged Carroll tagged me in his meme and oh my life am I excited to disclose the sites that Paul Merton would certainly pull the lever on.

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