This week I had the pleasure of going to two trade fairs, the OMD in Dusseldorf and Ad Tech in London.I was surprised to see the different scale of them. The OMD was huge, I think 10,000 people there on Tuesday. All the big portals, ad sales houses and loads of people offering tools to […]
Google has now released gadget ads to run on their content network. It allows you to serve the ads and change the content, run all sorts of cool rich media and add them to their favourites/iGoogle page. This solves one of the queries about distribution i talked about earlier, which will work fine if you […]
There is a whole lot of talk about widgets and gadgets as new methods of interaction; it is a very enticing topic that takes in a couple of major trends in the online world. Central to it is the idea that we no longer live in a “push” economy where people are willing to be […]
I get a lump in my throat and a tear in my eye when I see people working together on the internet to make a change. I’m not sure if that’s some kind of hippy notion (I do have a beard) ,a joy in the power of the internet or a desire to become a […]
two new developments, both of them pretty interesting;1. widgets are now classified/ranked in terms of engagement rather than simply installation. This makes a lot of sense to me, with all the application spam people get, it’s difficult to cut through to what people are actually using and what are the most useful applications. This should […]
In the same vein as “get things done”, the joy of brevity and other personal productivity mantras comes this nugget of wisdom. Answer all e-mail in 5 sentences (or 4 or 3) and link to this site in the footer. Job done, no flowery nonsense and your day becomes a lot emptier…
Last week I was at the Casual Connect conference in Seattle. This is the premiere conference for casual games, and this was the American version (the European version is in February in Amsterdam). As I tend to go every 6 months, it is a good barometer of what is going on in the industry, as […]
New Comscore data has just come out about the casual games industry, and it’s interesting stuff… Growth of 10% year on year, and one in 4 users playing games, this isn’t a niche activity!
in the last year or so i’ve got into buying vinyl records. i won’t go into that here, i’ll save that for a longer post (and an extra couple of glasses of wine before so i can wax lyrical). anyway, i ordered a new turntable, a stanton t90. the reason i got it was that […]
everywhere… (Eric Shmidt) this is a great interview with Eric Shmidt where he gives a perspective on Google’s role and views on personalization, the future of the mobile, advertising and where they see things going. I found interesting the discussion about mobile which he foresees as the big opportunity of the future, it has web […]
Brendan McNulty 