Monthly Archives: April 2006

Post here from David Sifry’s Blog about the growth of the Blososhpere through Technorati’s eyes. In summary: Technorati now tracks over 35.3 Million blogs The blogosphere is doubling in size every 6 months It is now over 60 times bigger than it was 3 years ago On average, a new weblog is created every second [...]

No, don’t start smooching your home page (unless you want to)! Keep It Simple Stupid! That’s the advice from this article over at Teen Webmasters: Many sites today are focusing on high end graphics, advanced java scripts, catchy logos, and other trivial factors. What they don’t realize is that it’s a win win game if [...]

Nick Usborne over at Marketing Experiments has an interesting article about dial up users. This year broadband users as a proportion of all Internet users increased an impressive 13 percentage points over the previous February, as 68% of all US Internet users reportedly connected via broadband. Yes, 68% is a big figure. And broadband is [...]

Inspired by a discussion on our Escapee Blog about Royal Mail, I thought I’d do some digging on Direct Mail (DM) statistics in relation to postal services. You’d think the industry would be dying with e-mail and blogging – not so according to this report by the DMIS (Direct Mail Information Service). You can also [...]

For the average business trying to protect and enhance its reputation, the prospect of having its actions scrutinised by an army of online commentators can feel like a threat. Small wonder, then, that more and more firms are paying greater attention to what blogs are saying about them – and even trying to meet the [...]

If you use Firefox (and all good web broswers should), why not try this great little plug-in called Coolris that previews the link before you click.

Most people using a search engine expect to find what they are looking for on the first page of results, says a US study as reported by the BBC. At most, people will go through three pages of results before giving up, found the survey by Jupiter Research and marketing firm iProspect. Robert Murray, president [...]

asks Nick Usborne at Marketing Experiments. One of the problems with Google’s results-found figure is that it includes a vast number of trash content sites. It now appears that Google may be on its way to addressing this problem through its purchase of a new search algorithm, Orion. According to a recent article in Haaretz [...]

Copy is important. Not just the use of words, but the story behind them. Like the story about the blind beggar from Kim Klaver (via Seth Godin): One day, there was a blind man sitting on the steps of a buildingwith a hat by his feet and a sign that read: "I am blind, please [...]

Back in October 2005 I posted about Google Fight on this Blog – Google Fight is a fun little tool on Google. This morning I did a Google search for Basingstoke Design and guess what came on top! Now, I am a big advocate for aggregation. As search traffic becomes more and more important we [...]