By Ian, on August 1st, 2006 Stephen Taylor is the RVP and MD Search & Search Marketing at Yahoo! UK. Before Yahoo!, he was the MD of Overture Europe. I, on the other hand, am a little-known hack from South West London with a penchant for strong lager and pizzas. Stephen may also like those things. How are the new changes toContinue reading Yahoo! 2.0 By Ian, on July 28th, 2006 Wondered about Yahoo! and China? Censored search results? Shopping journalists to a communist state machine? Here’s what a company spokesperson told me: “Yahoo! opposes the punishment of any person on the grounds of what may be called free speech. We firmly oppose that. However, we have to abide by the local laws of whatever country we Continue reading Yahoo! and China By Ian, on July 28th, 2006 Yesterday, I spoke with Mark Opzoomer. Mark was the MD of Yahoo! Europe between 2001 and 2003. Now he’s involved in a number of ventures, but I was talking to him about his participation with Garlik. Garlik is set to launch as an online privacy service later this year. The idea is that they’ll scour the web Continue reading Watching the watchmen By Ian, on July 14th, 2006 Here’s where you get to help me. What follows is a draft of a chapter about the dotcom bubble. What I am lacking is personal anecdotes, so I feel it’s a bit dry, though I do have a few to add in. Did you make a mint overnight? Did you lose it again? Did you lose your job or your business? Did youContinue reading 1999 and all that By Ian, on July 12th, 2006 Social networking is big business, as we all know. MySpace has now become America’s most visited website with 4.46% of all web traffic in the week ending July 8th, putting it ahead of Google Search, MSN and Yahoo!. Bebo has reputedly turned down an offer of $552mn for its network, (not true —Continue reading The business of friendship | About this BlogSocial tools, devices and web evolution are creating epochal change in media, society and business. The plan is to hide under the floorboards till it’s all over document some of the interesting parts of that change. More…. |
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