Philip John

Category: Opinion

  • LinkedIn Now Major Factor in Online Reputation

    I’ve not been much of a fan of LinkedIn. It’s too closed off and there just aren’t enough ways to interact. I prefer networking through the likes of Twitter or Facebook. One example is how easy it is to create a presence for your company or brand. Previously, LinkedIn only gave you the ability to…

  • T-Mobile Attempting to Entice Customers; Uses a Really Lame Phone

    Again, via InformationWeek I learn that T-Mobile is going to try and get new customers by enticing them in with the Motozine ZN5. The phone boasts a 5-Megapixel camera, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 350MB of internal memory, a built-in organiser, voice recording capabilities, MP3 player, FM radio, TV-out capabilities, standard headphone jack and a 2.4-inch display with…

  • This is Why Android Will Beat the iPhone

    Apple are going to lose out to Google and others in the battle for the mobile market unless they book their ideas up and give users what they want. Case in point: Opera. Via InformationWeek I’ve learnt that iPhone users will have to go without the Opera Mini and Opera Mobile browsers because Apple won’t…

  • Web Startups are Threatening the Future of the ‘Net

    As we read about lay-offs at web companies and the big ‘crunch’ are web start-ups threatening to create a reputation for the internet as a harbour of bad business decision-makers?

  • How Chris Brogan Got Me a Link Without Knowing It

    SEO will get you traffic. It’ll get you links. It’ll get you rankings. But does it achieve your business goals? Could you be missing out on something? Perhaps you need Chris Brogan. Or maybe you just need to take part a bit more. Get your hands dirty. Something like that.

  • Ladies and Gentleman; Yahoo! Web Analytics

    We probably all knew this was coming since Yahoo! purchased IndexTools, but now it’s official. Yahoo has launched Yahoo! Web Analytics. I’ve been using IndexTools for what must be five years now. Before that, I was all about WebTrends as well as a short stint with Urchin. Having explored a variety of other tools I…

  • While eBay Stumbles Off, I Might Stumble Back… Upon StumbleUpon

    eBay wants to get rid of StumbleUpon, but do StumbleUpon’s recent service announcements make the service more attractive to the users? And can they attract the millions of users they’ve lost in the last year?

  • Google, I Want You to Have My Data. Please!

    A couple of days ago, Google stated that it will now anonymise user data after 9 months instead of 18 months. Andy Beal asks a very good question with his post, “Why Isn’t Google Asking Users for Input on Its Privacy Policy? And why aren’t they? Why are Google, as Andy puts it, “acting like…

  • Okay, I give in – My take on Google Chrome

    I’ve resisted up until now, but I can’t hold it in any more. I feel like the odd one out. The only person not shouting about Google Chrome. Even my mates where talking it up down the local watering hole. They’re usually my break from internet-related topics! I’ve been a FireFox user since version 0.8…