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Transport For London to Review its Digital Advertising Business
Thursday, den 25. February 2010TFL has sent out a tender to agencies inviting them to compete for the business. Currently managed by Mediaedge; the business includes display advertising and paid search activity.According to the tender, the brief may include an Olympic Media Plan in the run-up to the London 2012 Olympics.
How exciting, we really are starting to feel the [...]
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Bigmouthmedia merger with LBi
Thursday, den 25. February 2010Big news today folks…big news for the Bigmouths at Bigmouthmedia that is. I saw the tweets come flooding in this morning at about 9am, shortly followed by the official press release which reported the merger of LBi and Netherlands-based Obtineo (amalgamation of Bigmouthmedia plus €40m from capital investors) and I have to say it’s no [...]
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Does Google Make Us Stupid?
Wednesday, den 24. February 2010Hmm….good question, and one posed as a magazine article by Nicholas Carr back in July 2008. The gist of the article was the Internet’s effect on cognition,the ability to read and absorb content and not take on a staccato effect when looking at different material. And my favourite quote from it has to be…
Once I [...]
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Google Executives Prosecuted in Italy
Wednesday, den 24. February 2010In a potentially groundbreaking case, an Italian court has today convicted 3 Google Executives in a trial over the publishing of an autistic teenager being bullied. Whilst all 3 were absolved from defamation, they were convicted of privacy violations: The BBC reported:
“The three employees, Peter Fleischer, David Drummond and George De Los Reyes, received suspended [...]
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Yahoo include Live Twitter Feeds
Wednesday, den 24. February 2010In a bid to improve users social media experiances, Yahoo has followed Google lead by intergrating real-time twitter feeds into their search results.
The Brand Republic reported:
“As part of a deeper integration with Twitter, Yahoo! ID users will be able to access tweets while they are using Yahoo!’s mail and sports sites. Users will also be [...]
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Twitter hits 50 Million Tweets per day
Tuesday, den 23. February 2010Twitter has today hit the landmark of hitting over 50 million tweets sent per day. This is over 20 times the volume of traffic the site was generating only a year ago, and means that is now passes myspace that is estimated to be hitting around 33 million status updates below. The Brand Republic had [...]
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My Fave facts from SES
Friday, den 19. February 2010I was lucky enough to attend some of the SES talks in London on Thursday the 19th. Here are some key fact from my messy notes:
- In the new MSN/Yahoo search deal – Yahoo still keeps ownership of mobile search – they ain’t so dumb afterall
- Its 2010 and we are still all struggling to [...]
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Google shopper launches on Android phones
Friday, den 19. February 2010Google shopper is a little like a cut down version of the previously released Google Goggles. This one however focuses purely on shopping. Just take a picture of a book/album cover etc and it will search the internet for that product and find you the lowest price. So far it works well on all the [...]
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Microsoft / Yahoo Deal Approved
Friday, den 19. February 2010The European Commision and US Department of Justice have approved Microsoft’s plans to buy Yahoo’s internet search and search advertising business. The EC said the ten-year deal, which will see Yahoo’s search service powered by Microsoft’s Bing, “wouldn’t significantly impede effective competition”.
NMA Had this to say:
“The deal was struck by the two companies last July [...]
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I’d buy them…
Friday, den 12. February 2010Well, this is unheard of at Tug. No one has mentioned/blogged/tweeted about the iPad for at least 24 hours. I’m getting withrawls, so here’s my contribution…
(Not quite sure why I find it so funny, but I do!)
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