Archive for April, 2008
The Web 2.0 Social VRM impact on Insurance and Financial Services
Both Jeff Jarvis and Jeremiah Owyang are discussing the merits of social, web 2.0, VRM concepts in the context of financial services. This is something very close to my heart and while the discussion has attracted some heavyweight attention from the likes of Seth Godin, I’m feeling lucky.
I’ve been convinced for some time that all […]
As I was saying on 2008-04-26
Oh my head - What happended lnight? Coffee kicking in - Sun is calling - Love Brighton.aaaaaahh #
As I was saying on 2008-04-24
Yahoo! opens everything including search platform - But I really am too tired to care tonight. #
Fedup with trying to follow all of you on different platforms - sending invites to join FriendFeed #
Gutted can’t go to the VRM meeting this evening. Family calls #
The Economist have their PageRank reduced for selling links. tut […]
A new look for Nilhan’s Kocchi Kade
After many months trawling through hundreds of WordPress themes, I settled on this one. I really liked the simplicity of the last one but it was time for a change and I wanted more flexibility have a little play.
A big shout out to all the talented folk at DailyBlogTips for creating this theme. Really […]
Twitter Updates for 2008-04-23
Another wet day in Brighton - must find stronger coffee #
Complex networks and decentralized search algorithms - now stop right there #
how about this for a piss-take - type in ‘vrm whitepaper’ into Google and it says ‘ did you mean ‘CRM white paper’ #
promissed I wouldn’t but here I am slagging off everyone in […]
Did the Holiday Inn just get lucky?
On a search for ‘Holiday in Paris’ I got this map box filled entirely with links to various Holiday Inn local listings.
Kevin Bacon and the impact of offline on online - part 2
A few days ago I blogged about a Kevin Bacon YouTube video which was mentioned on the Graham Norton show. The video had 1800 views prior to the TV show, and the following morning it had 8000+ views.
Now five days later it has just under 30,000 views. We can assume that the first jump […]
Previous Query refinement coming to natural results
Somehow managed to miss this when Danny Sullivan mentioned it a few days ago. But the rumour is Google is going to start personalising results based on the previous query. This is something that’s been going on in paid for many months, but I think the implications are much greater for natural search.
With personalised […]
Kevin Bacon YouTube video on Graham Norton
On Graham Norton last night Kevin Bacon pointed out this video of him on YouTube
As the TV program ended there were 1800 views. Today there’s over 8000. Was expecting more from TV, but not bad
Google to provide opt-out options for secondary search box
According to a Google representative in the UK, they plan to allow an option in your webmaster tools which will give you control over the secondary search box.
This has been debated to death ever since it appeared with little consensus. So, an opt out seems to be the best option
