Archive for July, 2008
Google invented hoaxbait
Thursday, July 17th, 2008A couple of months ago the search slice of the blogosphere was ablaze with discussion around the Lyndon Antcliff linkbait extravaganza. Lyndon posted a case study of a successful piece of linkbait he’d created for a client. The bait was a fictional story about a 13 year old kid who had stolen his [...]
Plurk off, Twitter up
Monday, July 14th, 2008Having resisted the rush of interest in Plurk, I’m quite pleased today to see it is every bit the flash in the pan I expected it would be.
I’ll not go into why it failed. I’d imagine that’s bleedingly obvious to anyone who has ever looked at the site. More of a purple turd [...]
The day SEO is dead is the day the machines take over
Monday, July 7th, 2008Jeff Jarvis: the day SEO is dead is the day the machines take over. If you know your Arnie movies, you’ll know that day is August 29, 1997, around about the time when Google was nothing but a twinkle in Larry and Sergey’s eyes. Here we are 11 years on, and as far [...]
