COFFEEMATE49 TWITTER ARCHIVE

This page is an archive of my tweets excluding direct messages. 

JULY 2009

• Article: Google plans Chrome OS: Andy Mackay wrote: Could Google challenge Windows by creating a Chrome .. living-streams.co...
• Dubious that Twitter will be a major platform for businesses? Note their intent with this 101 guide http://business.twitter.com/twitter101/
• $65 billion of 2010 USA advertising spend will go to firms' own websites, SEO and social media forbes.com/2009/...
• #Green Just 26 per cent of organisations are measuring their full carbon footprint. CMI report managers.org.uk/...
• Launching a special offer ? Make sure your website has the bandwidth. Big names who got it wrong econsultancy.com...
• 10 Concerns about Google Chrome OS eweek.com/c/a/Li...
• New Study Indicates Social Media Pays press.wetpaint.co... Find out how your firm measures up here - http://www.engagementdb.com/Rank-Yourself
• Fancy selling Tesco products for a commission? Here's how econsultancy.com... and tesco.com/affili...
• The Internet Is Dead (As An Investment) online.wsj.com/a...
• #Green 73% of managers don't want to work for a firm with a bad environmental reputation. CMI report managers.org.uk/...
• Article: BT drops Webwise plans: Kate Billinghurst wrote: Has the bell tolled for Webwise in the UK? living-streams.c...
• Marketing Small Businesses With Twitter - NYTimes.com nytimes.com/2009...
• 45,403 new UK business accounts were opened in March (British Bankers Association) compared to an average of 43,773 in 2008
• UK retail sales increased 1.2% in June (Office for National Statistics) and are up 2.9% from the same month last year.
• #Green FREE Chartered Management Institute report on how companies can be 'Lean and Green' managers.org.uk/...
• The average cost of Broadband has fallen by 37 percent in the past four years - users should at least review supplier
• On webinar 'Overcoming barriers to better tests and gains' - stats and conversion architecture merge for business results
• Twitcam.com - login using twitter account details, upload video and seamless send tweet with link. Free streaming.
• Apollo 11 mission 40th anniversary - Google Earth users can now search the moon - learn how to access youtube.com/watc...
• Since Myspace's music was launched last autumn, monthly unique visits has grown from 4.2 million to 12.1 million.
• Furor over Amazon deleting the 1984 book from Kindles because they didn't have right to sell - promise made never to repeat.
• Microsoft agree to stop IE8 automatically setting itself as your default browser when you instal it using 'express settings'
• Gmail Adds 'Unsubscribe' Option to Select Marketing Messages marketingvox.com...
• Article: Firms 'not using blogs to their advantage': John Burns wrote: Are businesses failing to take ad.. living-streams.c...
• Keep your firm informed on www developments - free sub (by topic or allinone). News articles not ads living-streams.c...
• Article: Growth of online video continues: Mark Richards wrote: As online video usage continues to grow,.. living-streams.c...
• Hacked info on Twitter's ambitions techcrunch.com/2... - 100M users by end2010 & $62M revenue in qt4 2010
• Google's Chrome OS, cloud computing and open access s/w threaten Microsoft dominance for the first time in many years.
• Green: Too late to save coral? Impact on world? Safe CO2 level 350ppm (parts per million) - currently 387ppm and rising.
• RT @tweetmeme Increasing your Twitter Followers with Ease and Simplicity twittersnipe.com...
• UK public sector spending cut essential to avoid bankruptcy. Ireland cut salaries by 7.5% but UK Unions opposing even a freeze
• Improve your marketing return measurement by tracking phone calls generated from website visitors searchengineland...  
• Global campaign for schools and young people - become aware of human trafficking and make a difference stopthetraffik.o...  
• Green: UK government fails to support domestic solar panels. Systems installed in 2007 - 270 in UK but 130,000 in Germany
• Green: Between now and 2030, electricity rom coal to rise by 23% in USA, 172% in China and 258% in India.
• Green: Can coal be 'clean' by storing CO2 in liquid/rock? % of electricity from coal to rise from 40 now to 44 by 2030.
• Advertisers shun Iran's state run TV fearing that they will be blacklisted in Facebook petition.
• Nokia phone sales fall 50% in Iran - backlash they sold comms monitoring equipment to the regime.
• North Korea blamed for website virus attacks: USA gov/military, then S.Korea financial orgs and then S.Korea gov sites.
• Green: G8 fails to meet its 2005 commitment to double aid to world's poorest countries. UK one of few still on target.
• Faith: USA Episcopalians drop ban on gay bishops - Renewed possibility of split in anglican community worldwide.
• Green: G8 agree to cut CO2 emissions by 80% by 2050 - but disagree whether start point is 1990 or 2005 (BIG difference).
• Green: Bundanoon, Austalia bans selling water in plastic bottles. Locals filling reusable bottles from drinking fountain.
• #pethate Twitter followers with no avatar, no bio and a cryptic name
• #pethate Social autoresponder messages which try to pretend they're not
• Time for fun - it's Friday. How about a viral on #pethate - remember the hashtag, so we can search it to see them all
• Most businesses don't believe that they should use Facebook. This winery case should convince them viralvines.com/2...
• UK followers: Have you noticed 'UK page only' Google searches listing more non-UK webpages? Let's discuss. #ukgoogle
• % of Americans spending less face-time with their household due to home internet ?" from 11% in 2006, to 28% in 2008.
• In 2000, 11% of Americans were worried about >18yrs olds spending too much time online - now its 28% digitalcenter.or...  
• Review of Twitter search in Bing by Ecademy: Thought to have many issues so far. econsultancy.com/...
• 10 Twitter Commandments from Ecademy. econsultancy.com...
• Perry Marshall just said "Ads that win awards rarely generate sales. And ads that sell rarely win awards" . Worth pondering.
• Twitter msg sins - unrealted to their hastags, affiliate spam, viral spam, auto responder spam, etc econsultancy.com...
• Just signed the declaration at neo.org and put my own declaration on my personal Facebook wall
• Living Streams is pleased to announce its Facebook fan page at www.facebook.com/LivingStre...
• "Why Your Social Networking May Not Be Working" excellent article by Penny Power & Andrew Ballenthin ecademy.com/node...
• Just 5 more 'fans' for my Facebook 'vanity' URL. It'll only take you a minute - go on you know you want to :-) facebook.com/page...
• Article: Firefox 3.5 takes off: Dipika Patel wrote: Has Firefox 3.5 got what it takes to topple Internet.. living-streams.co...
• Google Search begins to evolve again googleblog.blogsp... (article) & youtube.com/watc... (video)
• Clever Pringle advert adweek.blogs.com/... - it may not be viral but clicking to read the next message is compul.. tweetlater.com/tw...
• #ihavetoadmit to getting desperate for 100 LSIC facebook page followers facebook.com/page... please help me guys
• #ihavetoadmit I'm getting really fed up with auto response direct messages when I follow people
• I just registered an account on Twellow, the Twitter Yellow Pages! My profile is here: http://twellow.com/u/Coffee...
• #followfriday Please help me group my followers - RU mainly #christian #friend #socialmedia #internetmarketing #conservation #SME or #SaaS ?
• Skipping is back!! What's old isn't necessarily useless and what's new is necessarily useful ... and vice versa #followfriday
• Skipping is back!! What's old isn't necessarily useless and what's new is necessarily useful ... and vice versa
• Do you know about http://www.longurl.org? It expands those short links so you REALLY know where you're going and don't get scammed RT@liajen
• RT @loubortone Mashable's Great Twitter Guidebook: mashable.com/200...
• Just joined a twibe. Visit http://twibes.com/mind-mapp... to join
• Joining a Twitter group. http://twibes.com/socialmed... - What twibes do you belong to?
• Just joined a twibe. Visit http://twibes.com/mind-mapp... to join
• Just joined a twibe. Visit http://twibes.com/socialmed... to join
• Just joined a twibe. Visit http://twibes.com/Christian... to join
• Just joined a twibe. Visit http://twibes.com/graphic-d... to join
• Joining a Twitter group. http://twibes.com/GREEN?v=1 - What twibes do you belong to? 
• See our article on business use of Twitter in the Marlow Chamber of Commerce June Newsletter marlowchamber.co...
• Anyone willing to help me get a vanity URL for my Facebook fan page please facebook.com/pag... ? I need 67 more fans. 
• Article: Firefox 3.5 takes off living-streams.co...
• Article: Bing (was MSN Live) touts Twitter integration living-streams.c...
• Article: Google looks to boost firms' website conversions living-streams.c...
• Article: Email marketing deliverability success factors revealed http://ping.fm/XB3iF
• Article: Travel firms reap benefits of SEM http://ping.fm/6E3wt
• Article: Google highlights apps for Analytics on the go http://ping.fm/3YQlc
• US energy bill tightrope - criticised for going too far (economy) and not far enough (environment). edition.cnn.com/...
• They just don't get it. Young taught the faith of atheism - how to confuse selection with evolution. timesonline.co.u...
• 20 #solar panels 4 #paramotors 8pilots 2continents, 2000KM of solar-powered flight. 18days to go. theincredibleweb...
• Article: How firms organise for social media http://ping.fm/sk8tO
• If you're interested in promoting your Twitter profile, you should check out FeaturedUsers.com. featuredusers.co...
• Article: Habitat apologises for Twitter faux pas http://ping.fm/aGTtI
• Article: Survey offers insight into improving e-commerce conversions http://ping.fm/tgQm8
• What triggered all of those #moonfruit tweets? Fancy doing the same for #living_streams_uk as an experiment (lol)?
• Ah-ha I see that a - is counted by Twitter as breaking the #. Can't find a valid character list so going to try
• Article: Yahoo! rolls out new DIY ad tool http://ping.fm/dDbMY
• 11 new articles (pages) for our Newsroom living-streams.c... today and tomorrow. #firefox3.5 #analytics #seo #blog #ppc
• You Know You Work In Search When You… marketingpilgrim...
• What triggered all of those #moonfruit tweets? Fancy doing the same for #living-streams-uk as an experiment (lol)?
• #Murray Superb role model: Why is UK so sad that we have the 3rd tennis player in the world? UK 61M - World 6,768M
• Firefox3.5 hits the ground running - 5M downloads in first 24hrs mozilla-europe.o.... Top 10 new features lifehacker.com/5...
• FREE 17page paper from DoubleClick with 2008 online advertising benchmarks doubleclick.com/... USA based

JUNE 2009

• Article: E-commerce sector still growing http://ping.fm/miY28
• Article: Google ramps up Flash indexing http://ping.fm/394D2
• Article: Analyst: Twitter search data now meaningful http://ping.fm/Q6VPe
• Article: Facebook tests real-time search http://ping.fm/FhCZz
• Banks' lending to UK firms down to £7.9B in May from £12.6B in March: (Government to blame?) cannonmoorcroft.c...
• UK government spending to rise to 50% of GDP by 2010-2011 freshbusinessthi... - the level of communist countries (worrying)
• 'User-friendly' Facebook page URLs were to be available for all on 28h June. But 100 fan criteria now applied.
• My Facebook Page for Living Streams Internet Consultancy needs at least 81 more fans to earn a vanity URL. Please can you help?
• Set alarms now - Facebook Fan Page Vanity URLs for companies with less than 1,000 fans available from 5pm (UK) tomorrow
• If you have any interest in Twitter, you will find this report fascinating cdnqa.hubteam.co...
• Setting off for a day with Google in central London. Bound to be some golden nuggets to share afterwards.
• The breadth / depth of service we offer because we're in the WSI community is a major UVP for us franchise-intern...
• Good usability review of an e-commerce site econsultancy.com... - use as the basis for reviewing your own e-commerce site.
• 62% of USA house buyers hunt online - will this tredn spread to the UK? marketingcharts....
• Myspace cuts USA staff by 30% as it's users drop to 70million - losing battle with Facebook which has 300million.
• Twitter agrees to Iranian Twitterers' requests for access via proxy servers to prevent blocking by their 'government'.
• Government's interim 'Digital Britain' report - 50p fixed line tax/month to pay for better broadband culture.gov.uk/i...
• Less than 15% of blog readers subscribe to RSS feeds. They need email sign-up and to have it explicitly highlighted. #smss09
• The complete guide to digital marketing (in 21 pages lol) averypromotions.c...
• Shhhh. Newspapers are quietly holding a very important talks. Will online content soon be chargeable? correspondents.th...
• Multi-channel now accounts for 42% of sales at Argos — Internet Retailing internetretailin...
• Halfords reports 90% growth in multi-channel revenues — Internet Retailing internetretailing...
• Scaremongering by the big dogs on Page Rank sculpting?? It still has its place in SEO - Google says kaushik.net/avin...
• Reprise: Invest much more in extracting value from your analytics data than obtaining the raw numbers. kaushik.net/avin...
• Microsoft EMEA VP says "We don't believe (online ad) budgets will go up any time soon, and I'm talking the next three years".
• Article: Rumours swirl over new Google search service http://ping.fm/fkfMJ
• Article: Questions raised over mobile commerce http://ping.fm/Yujke
• Microsoft EMEA VP says "We don't believe (online ad) budgets will go up any time soon, and I'm talking the next three years".
• Wall Street Journal: increase of malware in online ads as publishers outsource more of their ad selling to third parties.
• Article: IAC chairman predicts web content sea change http://ping.fm/7b0Lu
• Living Streams publishes a covenant for its operation as a business. living-streams.c...
• #smss09 Less than 10 UK people in the Social Media Success Summit 09 - out of nearly 600 participants that's terrible.
• China demand filtering s/w for all PCs - just to block porn or also free speech? nytimes.com/2009...
• Maplin online offer Verbatim 500GB external hard disk for £50 - maplin.co.uk/Mod...
• RT @EFranz13 Google Analytics: Complete Power Users Guide - blog.vkistudios.com...
• 5 new babies (rabbits) born to the Thornby household this morning - mum and offspring doing well. Photos soon.
• Facebook pages born after 30th May or having <1000 fans then cannot have a user name until 28th June facebook.com/help...
• Facebook pages created after 30th May or having <1000 fans on that day cannot have a user name until 28th June.
• Article: Web 2.0 named as millionth word http://ping.fm/rnw4d
• RT @PollyPhagan Facebook Starts Disabling Status Updates For Generic Facebook ... technews.am/conversati...
• Ignore last msg, info now sent. Newsletter subscribers get white paper and webinar access next week living-streams.co...
• Article: Google CEO: 2009 is year of mobile phones http://ping.fm/atH25
• Sign up to my newsletter - Details of my free email marketing webinar/white paper go out tomorrow living-streams.co...
• Useful article on differences between Facebook fan pages and groups searchenginejour...
• Google says pagerank sculpting can work and is white hat youtube.com/watc...
• Short URL links do help SEO if they use 301 redirect searchengineland...
• Just completed UK business culture survey. For report results (when available) subscribe to my newsletter living-streams.co...
• Article: Facebook customised URLs - get yours - vanity or essential? http://ping.fm/Ma8qE
• Asda improves its online offering econsultancy.com... Good e-commerce design critique
• Twitter to verify accounts to fight imposters living-streams.c...
• Twitter to verify accounts to fight imposters http://www.living-streams.c... ...
• Twitter to verify accounts to fight imposters living-streams.c...
• Article: Twitter to verify accounts to fight imposters http://ping.fm/XlAj0
• If you are a workplace believer (Christian), here is a relevant quiz http://ping.fm/uj63G
• 46% of customers who abandon an e-commerce 'cart' would purchase if reminded with an email econsultancy.com/blog/...
• Google launches Page Speed Firefox add-on living-streams.c...
• Iranian presidential election. Reformists using text messaging and social networking sites to campaign fo moderate Mousavi.
• Tiananmen anniversary internet clapdown - Twitter, Flickr, Hotmail and many search engines http://ping.fm/0z4WQ
• Google launches Page Speed Firefox add-on living-streams.c...
• Article: Google launches Page Speed Firefox add-on http://ping.fm/Vqajg
• As a full member of the (UK) Chartered Management Instititute, I recommend that you follow @cmi_managers
• Google casts doubt on PageRank sculpting living-streams.co...
• Article: Google casts doubt on PageRank sculpting http://ping.fm/PAjKN
• Google Local Business Center gets new dashboard living-streams.co...
• Article: Study: Most tweets posted by 10% of Twitter users living-streams.co.uk/n...
• Article: Google Local Business Center gets new dashboard http://ping.fm/XodFc
• Study: Most tweets posted by 10% of Twitter users *living-streams.co...
• Just how much will Twitter change the business world? living-streams.c...
• Is anyone listening or are we all just talking ? #twalk
• Monitor Twitter for multiple keywords. Use it's 'search' and then subscribe each search feed page to a feed reader. #twalk
• Article: Just how much will Twitter change the business world? http://ping.fm/hSzpD1  
• Golden nuggets can be found in extremeist ravings. Are there any in this anti-Web2 rant? http://ping.fm/uXSRP
• CEO Wilson says: Google = search, Amazon = purchases, Ebay = auctions, Twitter > "tell the world what you’re thinking"
• Google goes head to head with Amazon / Kindle in selling ebooks. http://ping.fm/DT8JI Access online and offline.
• Cyber crime costs USA $8Billion p.a. and the Pentagon has 40K+ hack attempts. Obama video http://ping.fm/2tweY (16min)
• Website user surveys are a good idea. User testing is better - if you avoid the common mistakes http://ping.fm/n6KRj
• Tony Thornby of Living Streams joins the Social Media Graffiti club in Ecademy. http://ping.fm/iyy3F
• New Ecademy feature. Status updates can now be fed to your Twitter account automatically http://ping.fm/n16ZC
• Twitter #hashtags and how to use them http://ping.fm/MBqRc Social media/network news http://ping.fm/dGwqQ

MAY 2009

• Microsoft officially unveils Bing search engine living-streams.c...
• Spending some time following fellow SMSS09 participants - in Twitter - and connecting with them in LinkedIn
• Free SEO webinars: SearchEngineWorkshops http://ping.fm/vqYxz @6pm UK. Taught me advanced level - must be good :-)
• Article: Microsoft officially unveils Bing search engine http://ping.fm/NrQS2
• Article: Google previews real-time communication tool http://ping.fm/dnk8n
• Microsoft officially unveils Bing search engine living-streams.c...
• Google previews real-time communication tool living-streams.c...
• Microsoft officially unveils Bing search engine living-streams.c...
• Site owners now able to integrate Google products living-streams.c...
• Is Google Wave an update of the Mexican version? living-streams.c...
• Article: Is Google Wave an update of the Mexican version? http://ping.fm/OQWYo
• Is Google Wave an update of the Mexican version? living-streams.c...
• Article: Social media 'to boost' online retail http://ping.fm/kEG1Q
• Twitter profile page down ranked by Google ping.fm/...
• Community radio marlowfm.com - Living Streams currently advertising in the lunchtime show online and locally on-air at 87.8.
• Topsy helps you find good Twitter contacts for your networking and relationship building. video: http://ping.fm/mT8qN
• Russian Investment firm puts $100M into Facebook - in 2006 Microsoft put $240M into it. Big players saying Facebook here to stay.
• 97% of UK SMEs want to reduce their energy consumption. British Gas initiative britishgas.co.uk/BGB-E... may help to identify how.
• Hidden free keyword tool http://ping.fm/6pn7U - click "top keywords across all categories" (at bottom) - explore left menu
• Video on Google's new search options http://ping.fm/Pmh3u
• RTDonCrowther New Version of Skype Adds Screen Sharing readwriteweb.c...
• RT @tweetmeme Companies need to use Social Media if they are to survive - examples freshbusinessthin.... Living Streams can help
• 1am - I'm in the 1st #smss09 (Social Media Success Summit 2009) session. Watch for many messages on this in the next 4 weeks.
• Planted some bluebell bulbs and yellow polyanths in the 'common' wooded land at the back of my house - hoping they will thrive and spread.
• Article: E-commerce sites 'can take steps to boost conversions' http://ping.fm/Bpadp
• Article: Twitter not looking at ads for monetisation http://ping.fm/lLfPl
• Article: UK web users spending more online http://ping.fm/q8ld7
• Article: Councils beat private sector for web accessibility http://ping.fm/fGfVZ
• Article: Wolfram Alpha goes live http://ping.fm/KIwZX
• Article: Trademarks to be allowed in US AdWords ad text http://ping.fm/l4haB
• Article: UK web users flock to Facebook http://ping.fm/BpHGD
• RT: @chrisgarrett Win a FREE ticket to Social Media Success Summit 2009: chrisg.com/win-so... #smsuccess
• Article: Perpetual shopping carts 'effective' in e-commerce http://ping.fm/vUFYh
• SEO tip: Onsite duplicate content kills rankings. Keep the words in your template well below 20% of your total page word count.
• Google search spreadsheets http://ping.fm/2g8H3 and its new search options video http://ping.fm/doEX5
• Help Stop the Traffik: Ask Nestle what they're doing about Fairtrade. See http://ping.fm/rM8uM for details.
• Youngsters (singly or as a group) can support Stop the Traffik via Start Freedom at http://ping.fm/EvEqL1
• April 2009: Mars committed to traffik free Galaxy in the UK and Ireland from 2010 and across whole product range globally by 2020
• March 2009: Cadbury committed to fairtrade Dairy Milk in the UK and Ireland
• February 2009: Swiss Noir committed to fairtrade cocoa in their chocolate bars in Netherlands from March 2009
• July 2008: Verkade committed to 100% fairtrade cocoa and sugar in their chocolate bars in Netherlands from autumn 2008
• I support Stop the Traffik and Fairtrade and am an active member of the campaign group for Fairtrade Town status for (High) Wycombe
• 19.4 unique Twitter visitors in April says Compete. Spin-off winners - tweetdeck, tweetmeme, bit.ly, twittergadget, twitpic
• Article: Mozilla to establish add-on policy following developer spat http://ping.fm/Xbig9
• Email marketing beats the recession http://ping.fm/h9J6x Confidently 'dip your toe' supported by an internet consultant
• RT @DebPenner ThreadedTweets: Turn Your Twitter into a Realtime Conversation: New application mashable.com/200...
• Article: News Corp to charge for online news content, Murdoch says by Craig Nicholson http://ping.fm/6PVKd
• How good for mobile phones users are 10 UK newspapers' websites http://ping.fm/DpOaf & LSC article http://ping.fm/1tvdX
• News Corp to charge for online news content, Murdoch says by Craig Nicholson living-streams.co...
• Free UK market webinar on analytics - subscribe to Living Streams' newsletter at http://ping.fm/Z38Sh to be sent details.
• MyKMart & MySears new social sites - user reviews, polls, blogs, how-tos, video + Facebook, Twitter, YouTube & LinkedIn entries.
• New to Google Adwords ? Then this entry level video is useful to avoid basic mistakes and wasted spend - http://ping.fm/dlLQj
• Marlow - major event Higginson Park, Sunday 17th May. Hogroast, music, bungee run, craft stalls etc http://ping.fm/4VzGT
• A 20-step starter’s guide to using Twitter efficiently econsultancy.com... from @econsultancy
• 2 easy ways to track social networks in Google Analytics econsultancy.com... from @econsultancy
• Search box disappeared from your Google toolbar in Firefox this morning? Try downloading a new Google toolbar - worked for me.
• Sothink DHTML website menu software available FOC for next 17 hours only from http://ping.fm/6hHVV
• YouTube acts to stop free adverts in videos. Formal process for integration of brands in videos soon. http://ping.fm/DPcSg
• Ecademy offers discount upgrade to Powernetworker for limited period. 49.99 (GBP/ Euro/USD) for a year. http://ping.fm/Saakk
• Warning: Import your feeds into Google reader (from another reader) via an opml file and it marks many unread items as read.
• MarketShare says usage of IE dropped to 66% while Firefox has reached 22.5%. marketshare.hitslink.c...
• Google Webmaster surveyed its users in Feb. Key finding - new webmasters find it too technical. New resouces inc videos promised.
• A cracking read on Twitter retention rate http://ping.fm/MKLaR Apparently, like blogs, it takes skill and work to succeed :-)
• Twitter - expert panel offers view of its business use by Tony Thornby living-streams.co.uk/n...
• Article: Twitter - expert panel offers view of its business use by Tony Thornby http://ping.fm/kgXR3

APRIL 2009

• Last tweet led me to some interesting research on business concerns over online profiles - http://ping.fm/GGKl5
• Fasthosts Internet research says 1/3rd of SME neglect their websites - newbusiness.co.uk/news.... Really? Isn't it more like 90%?
• Our archive of old 'info Tweets' can be found at http://ping.fm/V2Q05
• Business Link 'No Nonsense' guides, inc one on funding - http://ping.fm/8AMaQ
•   UK consumer confidence growing steadily if slowly - http://ping.fm/ZSxGW
• Queue management at Internet World a shambles just like TFM&A earlier in the year. Presumably the problem is Earls Court management.
• Design your rooms online. Let friends help. Earn commission on sales. mydeco.com
• Data centre energy efficiency simulator (open access s/w) by end May htpp://dcsg.bcs.org
• New web - take a look at www.businesscloud9.com
• Today is Internet World day for me
• Article: Ask.com rolls out SERP sitelinks by Steve Swallow http://ping.fm/InsKC
• Ask search engine to reintroduce Jeeves after discontinuing the feature in 2006 http://ping.fm/e4g35
• Article: Over one in ten firms do not use analytics by Kate Billinghurst http://ping.fm/QlwiU
• Article: E-commerce spending up in March, says IMRG by Dipika Patel http://ping.fm/Xzf1l
• RT @tweetmeme Become A Networking Mentor freshbusinessthi.... No strings giving is good networking - take it to the next level.
• Rumour - Google to turn-off Urchin Analytics: Not true http://ping.fm/Y742J But it is time you used the ga.js version
• Measure your actual broadband speed at http://ping.fm/ONAJe - you'll be horrified. Contact me for a better option.
• Ex-services Gurkhas face despicable discrimination by UK Gov http://ping.fm/PgmyJ - speak up at http://ping.fm/WrJDl
• To post your own profile with Google or not. An article http://ping.fm/twZb3 - the place to do it http://ping.fm/LKfWl1
• Google's 'similar images' http://ping.fm/kCSA8 and a corny video at http://ping.fm/nQRMR
• And now your can search for news as a 'timeline' - also from Google http://ping.fm/AHVme
• Sorry for the slip of tongue - 'similar images' is from Google not Microsoft
• UK Govenment recommends opensource s/w twitter.com/home... - list they suggest at opensourcewindows.org...
• My Office is so old (upgraded severak times) that MS says its illegal. Maybe they'll persuade me to change to Open Office
•   USA court ruling makes PPC adverts triggered by competitors trademark 'dangerous'. http://ping.fm/b5j61
• Warning from 'SEO Workshops' - beware emails from dr3am_rock@hotmail.com allegedly they will hack your computer if you open them
• Is CO2 storage in water a (partial) answer to global warming? http://ping.fm/AZ7lR
• EU taking legal action over UK privacy laws for allowing internet spying. http://ping.fm/Erh31
• RT @DotComExpertise A handful of Firefox tweaks that will double your browser speed http://ping.fm/QkzNA
• Online media is destroying offline profitability, but its costs/losses are escalating (eg YouTube). http://ping.fm/ZdPUW
• A strategy is needed if you're using Twitter for business. This article will help you form yours http://ping.fm/oth0m
• M.Vox says ave America surfed 2,554pages on 111sites in Mar09 for an ave54sec each (source Nielsen). 38hours OK - but ave23pages/site??
• Google grows slower in 2009Q1. 'May aid Twitter to money' - http://ping.fm/hwt65
• Barack Obama grinds to halt. Tweets/day til 5Nov'08 - then 1 on 16Jan, 1 on 19Jan and 1 on 25Mar. 846K followers - no msgs!!
• Laugh at ourselves (Twitter users) - April fool trail. Blog - http://ping.fm/w6PmR Video - http://ping.fm/uDIBn
• Review of 10 Twitter search tools http://ping.fm/fckIH
• Unofficial CNN Twitter account @cnnbrk - friendly takeover by CNN. It's rapidly approaching 1 million followers.
• Commscore says that use of Twitter grew 131% in March 2009 - driven mainly by middle aged users. Rumours of acquisition are rife.
• Facebook surges in popularity in Europe by Steve Swallow: Facebook is continuing to see rapid growth within Euro.. http://ping.fm/XJIe5
• Consumers 'prefer organic results to PPC ads' by Dipika Patel: Web users are more likely to click on an organic .. http://ping.fm/nROZZ
• Google steps up local search efforts by Kate Billinghurst: Google is increasing its focus on local search throug.. http://ping.fm/iRZjX
• Google clears up analytics script issue by Dipika Patel: Google has responded to recent reports suggesting that .. http://ping.fm/B7FXF
• Bad information architecture 'harming conversions' by Andy Carter: Poor information architecture on a number of .. http://ping.fm/Oyhsl
• Google product search - GoogleBase is going to be increasingly important for eCommerce sites during 2009. http://ping.fm/NuX3S
• Nortel redundancies flout social justice - http://ping.fm/hK1VL Some Nortel pensioners also to suffer. Shame on Ernst & Young
• Major new malware threat! http://ping.fm/cuMsd Microsoft ends free XP support TODAY http://ping.fm/iZ7QU
• Free white paper on UK legal issues relevant to email archiving in 2009 - http://ping.fm/E77ic
• Happy Easter everyone - the best day in the year
• Be them all . Theory > plan > do > reflect > modify theory > plan etc
• At Spring Harvest - messages of a different kind
• Google Health http://ping.fm/U8Rtp teams with CVS to provide online prescriptions (USA now but UK?) http://ping.fm/zw0eT
• Today Trevo Claiborne (Google Opimiser) said use 100 conversions/action/option in testing - not the usual 30. The web's 'noisy'.
• Calling small companies - Dip your toe in the world of websites. Free site, hosting & s/w from Microsoft http://ping.fm/AyPE5
• Just added myself to the http://wefollow.com twitter directory under: #search #web #socialmedia
• Just added myself to the http://wefollow.com twitter directory under: Search
• 2008H2 UK online advertising spending overtook newspapers/magazines. IAB CEO says "accountability" (via Analytics) is the driver.
• Benchmarking data now available in Google Analytics - if you're prepared to share your data (anonymously).
• Tag your events for enhanced Google Analytic information - e.g. PDF downloads. Video play monitoring is in beta.
• One bonus of the recession is free information from 'big names' - e.g. webinars from Forrester Research http://ping.fm/XRgj4
• For Google Analytics support use a GAAC (Google Authorised Analytics Center) - or at least an agency that has an alliance with a GAAC.
• Segment your (Google) Analytics more by using multiple profiles and advanced segmentation.
• Skype tip: A file transfer to another Skype user is MUCH quicker if you put the call to them on hold during the transfer.
• The debate starts about how safe it is to use Firefox http://ping.fm/vJDPG
• RT Here's The FREE Software @ryanwade Used To Make Over $4,000 With One Tweet ... http://viraltweets.com
• Forrester Research: B2B firms risk falling behind rivals by not using social network info to steer marketing www.?.ws/?

MARCH 2009

• RSS (+) subscription without a reader for the non-technical http://tw2.us/cL - e.g. at http://tw2.us/cK. Pass it on (RT).
•   UK social nework ad spending growing fast - £11M in 2007 to £115M in 2008.
• In UK, 9.4% of online advertising is by technology based companies. Get onboad now or be left behind.
• RT @grrythrrn Skype for iPhone now live in US engadget.com/200... 
• UK web advertising - £3,340M in 2008 and predicted £3,580M in 2009 Europe web users - 49% are involved in social networking
• Europe - 81% 25-34 year olds use web weekdays & 72% at weekends 
• UK web users - 84% look online for info on goods & services
• UK web users - 63% book travel & 49% bank online
• UK 2009 internet users 39.4M
• Long-tail SEO advised for small e-commerce firms by Mark Richards: Small e-commerce firms may do well to conside.. http://ping.fm/prEqq
• Google invests in e-commerce photo service by Steve Swallow: Google has made an investment in e-commerce photo s.. http://ping.fm/8FJeU
• Facebook bows to user feedback on redesign by Andy Carter: Facebook has said that it will implement a number of .. http://ping.fm/1z50u
• Oops, sorry!! Found broken links to my PPC and SEO news articles - now fixed. Try http://ping.fm/Ajv34 and http://ping.fm/MAEek
• My Tweets for 3 days (from tomorrow) will be from a major Internet Marketing conference - snippets of the highlights
• RT #KevinEdwardLongGet out of your car for Earth Hour tomorrow 8:30 PM commit21.co.uk/group/1... - Join This Group!
• Social media marketing - take care - avoid the wrath of the community and possibly breaking UK law http://ping.fm/wT1AE
• BT reveals which towns will get fibre first http://ping.fm/RPpZI
• LinkedIn averages: age 41, experience 15yrs, income £75K. And 46% are decision makers
• My last tweet was condition of getting the report. Content very useful but assess suggestions carefully - reject 'step 6'
• RT Twitter little Secrets to making $1000 in 7 days for Free... howtomakemoneyonlinethe...
• Google launches VoIP service by Dipika Patel: Google has moved into the Voice over Internet Protocol space with .. http://ping.fm/JVwi9
• Microsoft shuts down adCenter Analytics by Steve Swallow: Microsoft has announced the closure of its adCenter An.. http://ping.fm/EpkRn
• Are You Right or Left Brained? - blogthings.com/areyour... - I am 30% Left Brained, 70% Right Brained #blogthings
• Just added myself to the http://wefollow.com twitter directory under: #Analytics #SocialMediaMarketing #SearchEngineOptimisation
• Make it viral. Indian women fight violence towards them. Facebook Group http://ping.fm/FOeYI Youtube http://ping.fm/i1xwu
• : Location: status: Looking for people to join my new FREE Ecademy eve face2face business networking groups - Ma.. http://ping.fm/ZLFbt
• FREE to join/belong, eve face to face Ecademy business network club for Marlow (home/work) based people. http://ping.fm/9gnGl
• IE8 rated poor by Techcrunch for speed stakes, Eric Schonfeld says that solving this is key for Microsoft to retain market share.
• Nielsen reports: Unique Twitter visitors increased 1,382% year-over-year, from 475K in Feb 2008 to 7 million in Feb 2009.
• Tremendous rugby - what a cliffhanger between Wales and Ireland + the Newcastle Brown was great. Well worth not finishing the greenhouse.
• If you run a company in Marlow UK, join my new Ecademy networking club. No join/subs fees: Mtgs venue fee only ecademy.com/module.php...
• Not working out a expected - England losing in the rugby and garage kept the beer too cold (waiting for it to wam up now).
• Getting myself organised to watch the England and Ireland (my wife's country) 6 nations Rugby matches
• eWeek says that IE8 is a must have http://ping.fm/36r6o Maybe for users, but it's a challenge for website owners and designers
• 20% of 5 SME think the web is the key tool to help them beat the recession - Easynet Connect survey. When do the other 80% cease trading?
• Just given a talk to Thames Valley Business Club about social media. Happy to do the same for other local business networking groups.
• Feb4 2009, new Facebook t&c gave them perpetual licensing to all content. By Feb18 community pressure bit. http://ping.fm/4VS4e
• Compete says search vols down in Feb compared to Jan (normal). Yahoo, MSN, Ask and AOL were all down by 9% or more but Google only 1%
• Stay positive & the recession may miss you. Have a look at http://ping.fm/xnL2L (found via Jill Konrath email) - smile & move
• Forum msg rcvd "Wanna get XRUMER 5.05 Palladium!". If you hate black hat like I do, don't touch it. See http://ping.fm/NXKGo
• Reminder - TFM&A seminar videos now available at http://ping.fm/pYwpi 55 Seminars, 6 Keynote Sessions, 2 Google Masterclasses
• Google announces interest-based ads by Mark Richards: New ads that are tailored depending on the web user's inte.. http://ping.fm/wNP1Y
• Spread the word that UK fuel tax goes up by 2p per litre on 1st April until people power prevents it. http://ping.fm/SUVhs
• Twitter.grader Location = 'Thames Valley, uk' get found for 'Thames Valley, UK' but not 'Thames Valley'. Drop the ', uk' found for both
• In PRWeb webinar "Using Your News To Drive SEO". Ideas - use press releases to build links and become a trusted source for journalists
• RT @kiruba The real life slumdog millionaire (great film), Sarath Babu. Read his story in today's Hindu hindu.com/mp/2009/03/1...
• Email marketing tip - send msgs on Tues or Wed for a higher response. Mon out of the way and 'end of week' deadlines not yet looming.
• I'm new to Twitter. Spent hours trying to find the command to retweet - just found you copy/paste and prefix with RT @ (or Twirl)
• Do you suffer with lost tab info when Firefox crashes / hangs or restarts? If so, fit the session manager add-on addons.mozilla.org/en-...
• Testing Ping.fm8:23 PM Mar 15th from Ping.fm
• GrandCentral superseded by Google Voice - voicemails, texts saveable, fileable .. and potentially indexable. See marketingvox.com/googl...
• YouTube to block premium music videos in UK due to stall in negotiations with the Performing Rights Society - see pcpro.co.uk/news/24924....
• TFM&A8 - Visit seminarstreams.com/TFM... to watch recorded talks (after free registration) from this year's event.
• In January, Twitter passed Digg for the number of (USA) visitors according to Hitwise - with 44.6% being 25-34 and 20% being 55+.
• First call to register for Internet World, Earls Court 28-30 April 2009 - internetworld.co.uk/Re.... It's free and totally recommended by me
• Yahoo! Search Marketing's new t&c, allow them to optimise prepay PPC accounts without prior knowledge or approval. Automatic opt-in.
• Online video viewing up 41% p.a. according to comScore. 147 million US internet users watched an average of 101 videos each in January
• Facebook is to implement tabs in business pages - like profiles. Make a change and it becomes visible to users. Total rollout expected.
• I've supported Stop the Traffik since it started. Cadbury's dairy milk bars (only this product) will be Fairtrade from summer 2009. 

FEBRUARY 2009

• TFM&A7 - Use Adword advert rotation to find the best messages for your offline marketing.
• TFM&A6 The best suppliers of internet services are those good at handling change and learning new skills. Comment - aka chartered engineers
• And now a thought provoking article about 'Lessons worth learning from Twitter's Success at marketingvox.com/how-t...
• Just across this great video for explaining how to get more from your Google searches howcast.com/videos/304....
• TFM&A5 - Even if you choose not to use social media for your business - listen to it for what people are saying about your business.
• Just across this great video for explaining how to get more from your Google searches howcast.com/videos/304....
• TFM&A4 - Google says that in recession the best companies do better, 'Only the fastest survive' - see freshbusinessthinking.....
• TFM&A3 - Advertising/marketing effectiveness can now be measured and improved - to do so requires process, analysis and iteration skills.
• TFM&A2 - Marketing channels have multiplied. Focus on integration of the ones you use and those combinations that deliver maximum ROI.
• TFM&A 1 - Your prospects are overloaded with messages. Differentiate yourself with interaction, personalisation and benefit statements.
• Attended TFM&A today. Key messages that I picked up will follow in tweets over the next couple of days.
• Just finished syringe feeding three 1 day old rabbits who have been rejected by their mum. Even internet consultants have their human side.
• Skype 4 released - better sound, bigger video, improved multiple conversation features and simpler access to key features.
• Want a UK focussed online press release service ? 'Watch this space' for exciting news in mid-March.
• Press releases on PRweb can trigger an automatic Tweet by using Tweetit prweb.com/releases/prw... - now part of LSC's PR management service
• Online testimonials with links to your website are great for web-page ranking. Remember the principle for your local Google listing (Maps)
• Updated Google Adwords interface in beta - a critique will be at living-streams.co.uk/L... (RSS feed living-streams.co.uk/n...) by 27th Feb
• Never thought I'd promote Microsoft but the viral to re-launch their 'Camp Network' social media site is amusing youtube.com/watch%3Fv%...
• TFM&A brings you internet services business news once a year - keep up to date all the time via living-streams.co.uk/I... and it's RSS feeds
• Don't miss TFM&A (www.t-f-m.co.uk) at Earls Court on 24/25 February, register free in advance. Google, Facebook & Econsultancy will be there
• See eConsultancy home for Twitter API blog. See my home page for twitter snippets that supplement my FOC internet services business news.
• Firefox 3.2 will incorporate their Ubiquity application - allows users to enter phrases to perform tasks like seeing a map of a location.
• Just heard the good (Bank of England) news - business in 2009 to be 96% of that in 2008. Glass half full types seem to be very sad about it
• Big companies using Twitter have triggered conisderation of charging for use of some Twitter facilities. No detail yet - watch this space! 

JANUARY 2009

• Strong rumour: Google to stop multiple domain names in the same Adword adgroup at the end of February 2009.
• Average Broadband Speed. UK 9th in Europe at 2.6Mbps - France 3rd at 17.6Mbps. 'Forward thinking' Gordon finally to set up a study!?
• Did you hear that even the Pope is to have his own video blog? Makes you think doesn't it?