January 2009
Stamp duty revenue falls as investors flee stock... →
The Treasury is suffering from a shortfall of up to £6 billion in tax income because of the collapse in the property market and hundreds of thousands of small investors fleeing the stock market…
Apprentice winner Lee McQueen to promote the... →
Lee McQueen, the winner of the Apprentice, is working on a project to promote the Guardian and the Observer on digital signs in newsagents.
The paper’s publisher, Guardian News & Media,…
Positioning and pitch decks for startups →
A friend of mine is putting together his first deck for potential investors. In typical startup fashion, they launched a product, got a number of users, and then iterated several times to improve…
Gannett readies $5.2bn asset writedown - Media... →
Newsquest owner Gannett is to take a $5.2bn hit as it looks to write down the value of its assets, including its UK operation.
Loving the amount of paperwork I have to fill in just to knock up a website… Agile it is not.
RT @gilesperks [recruitment agent] “redundancies are really kicking in now, getting 3-4 candidates everyday, v depressing!”
Jonathan Gillespie joins GMG Radio →
GMG Radio has hired Jonathan Gillespie from Google UK as its new commercial director.
Gillespie, who spent 14 years in radio sales including stints at OMD UK and Opera Media, will join GMG…
The Bacon Explosion - Take Bacon. Add Sausage.... →
This recipe is the Bacon Explosion, modestly called by its inventors “the BBQ Sausage Recipe of all Recipes.” The instructions for constructing this massive torpedo-shaped amalgamation of two…
links for 2009-01-29 →
Build a Website - Create a Blog - Squarespace
A fully hosted, completely managed environment for creating and maintaining your website.
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at breaking point with frustration in not having software I need to do my job! tempted to hack my PC & install myself, but forgotten how…
Sport Media Group auditor raises 'going... →
he auditor for Daily Sport publisher Sport Media Group has said it cannot be sure whether the company has prepared its accounts as a “going concern” - a term that refers to a company’s ability to…
Digital Britain: Newspapers invited to fill gap... →
The Government has asked the newspaper industry to suggest what it role it can play in ‘providing impartial news in the digital age’ and fill the gap created by ITV cutting back its regional news…
Michael Grade: 'ITV won't pay for regional... →
ITV executive chairman Michael Grade today guaranteed that the national news service provided by ITN would continue - but warned that regional news would only have a future if public subsidy was…
Digital revenues dive at the New York Times -... →
The New York Times Company has reported a 12.7% fall in online advertising revenues in December and 3.5% for the fourth quarter.
Govt asks newspaper industry to suggest what it role it can play in ‘providing impartial news in the digital age’ (http://bit.ly/194niD)
Video from 1981: “online newspapers not far-fetched but with 2 hours to download @ $5/hour = no competition to 20c paper”! http://is.gd/h6ao
How can Google cope with Twitter pollution? | →
The problem here isn’t really that Twitter or Facebook should be blocking Google’s robots. It’s that Google has yet to crack the question of indexing the real-time web as well as it copes with the…
Journalism.co.uk :: EveryBlock teams up with New... →
Data-driven news service EveryBlock has partnered the New York Times to expand its political news coverage on its New York site.
There are lots of news organisations tweeting to converse or to spam links, but do any pull their feeds or integrate back into their sites?
RT @benayers Twitters march into the mainstream continued this morning with a mention on GMTV [by Lorraine Kelly] http://tinyurl.com/cfuabm
I think I accidentally gave somebody a colleague’s business card rather than my own last night… mixed it up with mine in my wallet :(
Boobs And Booty Banned From The App Store →
an application called Wobble made it into the App Store using something of a loophole - instead of offering pre-rendered mammary shaking, it allowed users to add their own ‘wobble points’ to any…
Business North West Magazine re-launching after... →
How-Doers with a long memory of regional publishing will be interested to read that Business North West Magazine is set to re-launch almost nine years after it was merged with seven other regional…
Innovation in Software :: The Vagueware Blog →
So, they’re talked about in the mainstream press, people love them, people want to give them money, they’re not taking it, and now they’re taking VC funding to stay alive.
Think about that for a…
New Manchester City website pushes hospitality... →
Super-rich Manchester City believes it has scored a blinder with a new website from Trinity Mirror’s Rippleffect…
AOL to shed 700 in latest round of layoffs - Brand... →
Time Warner’s AOL will cut 700 jobs, or 10% of its workforce in a bid to cut costs amid the advertising slump.
Starbucks to cut 6,700 jobs and shut 300 stores as... →
Coffee shop chain Starbucks is cutting 6,700 jobs and shutting 300 underperforming stores after reporting a 69% fall in profits during the first quarter of the year.
10 Reasons why online news sites suck :: 10,000... →
It may be wrong to beat a man (or a newspaper) when he’s down, but some of the unconscionable and downright annoying features and practices of news sites warrant a little attention
Op-Ed Contributor - News You Can Endow -... →
Although the problems that the newspaper industry faces are well known, no one has offered a satisfactory solution. But there is an option that might not only save newspapers but also make them…
NY Times: newspapers should become “nonprofit, endowed institutions” (http://bit.ly/22gw4J). A bit like The Guardian & The Scott Trust then?
RT @huffpost I love how we thought we were passing on our huge debt problem to our kids. In fact, we have to deal with it ourselves.
RT @jeffjarvis: Angry unemployed print journo at the journalism panel angrily says the internet will never have quality journalism. #davos09
I think his twitter stream simply confirms that @rustyrockets is a complete loon…
glad I trekked all the way back across town to hook up with the startups crowd. Not seen @mbites and @cubicgarden in ages. Miss networking.
links for 2009-01-28 →
Smarta - Think create
Smarta is a new support platform for anyone starting or running a small business
By entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, Smarta provides a one-stop-shop where you can…
at the Man City vs Newcastle game… might head over to see @mbites at this startup thingy after
Google Custom Search is actually bloody amazing…
Jonathan Gillespie quits Google to join GMG Radio... →
GMG Radio has appointed Jonathan Gillespie, Google UK’s head of YouTube and display, and former head of radio at OMD, as its new commercial director.
Roger Parry steps down as Johnston Press chairman... →
Roger Parry, chairman of regional media group Johnston Press, is leaving his role to be replaced by Ian Russell.
FT launches new mobile website - Media news -... →
The Financial Times has launched a new mobile website as it looks to tap into the increasing demand for content on the go.
Yahoo! makes $300m loss in fourth quarter - Brand... →
Yahoo! has reported a $303m (£212m) net loss in the fourth quarter, but strong revenues helped the internet giant beat analysts expectations. Yahoo!’s net income for the whole of 2008 was down…
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Red Dwarf voyages back... →
Cult comedy Red Dwarf is returning to TV, 21 years after its initial launch.
Twenty-five people at the heart of the meltdown... →
The worst economic turmoil since the Great Depression is not a natural phenomenon but a man-made disaster in which we all played a part. In the second part of a week-long series looking behind the…
Get Smarta.com - Site aims at one-stop-shop to set... →
A fairly big play to help small businesses grow fast launches today in the form of Smarta, an attempt to create a one-stop shop for setting up and growing a business. You’ll be hearing a lot…
Some Things Need To Change →
I write about technology startups and news. In any sane world that shouldn’t make me someone who has to deal with death threats and being spat on. It shouldn’t require me to absorb more verbal abuse…
RT @TechCrunch http://twurl.nl/i223k8 <- high price of fame. Enjoy your rest Mike - hope you return with a kickass production crunchpad…!
i really hope Robinho didn’t do it…
links for 2009-01-27 →
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Future reports 1% rise as revenue hits £41m -... →
Future, the specialist publisher, has unveiled a 1% rise in revenues for the three months ending 31 December, despite the economy falling 1.5% in the same quarter.
Whisper it - A year later, AOL contemplates a Bebo... →
I didn’t quite believe it when one of my most trusted sources told me that AOL was seriously considering selling Bebo. But I have now confirmed the rumour with three other sources intimately…