Emily Bell, editor of The Guardian Unlimited, revealed that 1/3 of their visitors links through to an archived article. That means that, instead of coming through the front door at guardian.co.uk, a large number of users are deep linking into… Continue Reading
BBC News is reporting that AOL has purchased Weblogs Inc, a site that pays bloggers to blog. What? Weblogs Inc has a network of 90 blogs that carry advertisements. Each of those blogs is written by a network of freelance… Continue Reading
Yahoo has acquired yet another social software site, according to TheSocialSoftwareWeblog, which is reporting Yahoo’s purchase of upcoming.org, a collaborative calendar and event listing service. Users of upcoming can search for events by topic (for example "social software") or location… Continue Reading
You might have noticed that over the past few weeks I’ve been experimenting with placing a few ads on this blog. This post both explains why these ads are appearing and provides links that other bloggers might find useful if… Continue Reading
A student at Nottingham University, concerned that he was likely to be heavily in debt (his brother owed £30k plus) after he graduated from university, has come up with a money making idea – selling pixels on a web page… Continue Reading
Am I the only one who has noticedthat Flickr is showing ads from Yahoo, it’s parent company, and Google? It would seem that Flickr is making money off Google’s AdSense programme and Google is making money off of Flickr showing… Continue Reading
The following is a categorised list of content found on the cybersoc blog (this one!). I’ve not listed entries that just contain a link or conference/event announcements. Like with most blogs, you can also navigate using the monthly index or… Continue Reading
According to Hitwise , as reported by BBC News Online, the top 10 UK search terms in the UK during the past four weeks have been: eBay Argos Amazon Easyjet eBay UK Autotrader Ryanair www.ebay.co.uk Tesco BBC What I find… Continue Reading
I don’t know anything at all about “Opie and Anthony” other than that they are DJ’s and that their show seems to be the first to launch a feedback “widget” for Mac OSX’s dashboard. “Send instant feedback to the studio… Continue Reading
Those of you who have visited before will notice that I’ve redirected cybersoc.com to this blog today. That’s because, although the blog is still getting fewer visits than the static website, I feel very strongly that this blog is the… Continue Reading