Philip John

  • 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?

  • It’s The Economy, Stupid!

    Barely a day goes by where we don’t hear about climate change. But what nobody is really talking about is the economic impact. That’s why, for the second time, I’ve joined forces with Francis Irving to get people, business and Government motivated on climate change for the economy. It’s called Serious Change and I invite you to join us.

  • Evolving Web: Guardian Delivers Full RSS Feeds

    To my extreme satisfaction, The Guardian newspaper has become the first in the world to offer full text RSS feeds, representing a significant step in the evolution of the World Wide Web. This step should be a paradigm shift of sorts; the first domino to fall; and hopefully more newspapers will follow suit. Full text…

  • Yahoo!’s Delicious Fails at Usability

    Not completely, but enough for me to blog about it. When making changes to your site infrastructure or architecture, it’s important to consider links coming into your site. For example, I may want to change the URL structure for my blog posts, to include the year and month in which they were posted. This post’s…

  • 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.

  • One Simple Anti-Poverty Act at Christmas

    Today is Blog Action Day 2008 (BAD08) so to do my little bit I’m going to share with you one easy way you can do your bit to help in the fight to eradicate poverty. We are starting to see the beginnings of the Christmas season now, with shops beginning to put out Christmas stands…

  • 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?

  • The Evolution of Orange Juice… Oh and the Internet

    Never has orange juice been so relevant to the internet. Orange juice cartons are evolving. We no longer have to live with spilt orange juice all over our kitchen surfaces. The same goes for the internet… What?!