I’ve been watching Facebook’s hamfisted attempts to monetise their user base by selling your personal data to advertisers, with increasing amazement. It’s one thing (and a very Web 2.0 thing at that), to struggle with your business model, but another thing entirely to do it by: Spinning that your customers don’t care about privacy. Obfuscating [...]
I should be smack in the middle of the Laura Ashley demographic. Or at least L should. We even live in the kind of country idyll that they use in their catalogues. But every time we try to give them money we bounce off. Recent encounters have been as follows: I went into my local [...]
Here’s a fun visualisation tool from wordle: You just give it a URL, such as missingpresumedfed.com and it generates a word cloud using a Java applet, with a range of colour and layout options. Cute. Now if only they would update it live…
Radio 1 Newsbeat is carrying an analysis-free plug for Near London, a company who launched into closed beta this week. What is their product? A 3D model of Oxford Street, where you can walk up and down and look at products in the virtual windows. Oh, Dear God. It’s over 15 years since I started [...]
BBC News, 17 Nov: Katie Price returns to the jungle. BBC News, 23 Nov: Katie Price quits I’m a Celebrity. BBC News, 24 Nov: Katie Price apologises for her behaviour since divorce. Normally I try to swallow hard and keep down the rising bile in my stomach when I see corporate press releases masquerading as [...]