matthew ogston: social publisher

I am a Social Publisher. I enable conversations.

Posts Tagged Trends

Great tips for starting an online business in 2008!

2008 will be the year ‘web 2.o’ grows up, matures and becomes something more useful, rather than just being there to waste time at work. The Financial Times has a profile of French entrepreneur Loic Le Meur today, along with some well-thought out suggestions for starting a new business in the near year:

Don’t wait for [...]


Are tech blogs, and the entire web2.0 industry, rigged?

It’s been suspected for a long time now that high profile a-list technology blogs (which include web2.0 and SEO blogs) are heavily influenced by outside sources that pay the author to create favourable reviews of other websites. Geek News Central and Odd Time Signatures have both touched on this subject over the last couple of [...]


Online newspaper ad revenues rise, print ads fall

Ad spending on US newspaper websites continues to grow while spending on newspaper print ads declines, according to new figures.


Google’s attempt to take over the Universe

Search giant Google is offering a $30m prize pot to private firms that land a robot rover on the Moon.
Is this the first step towards Prometeus, - the Media Revolution:


Time up for Business 2.0

It’s the end of an era, Time Inc. to Close Business 2.0:
“Business 2.0, a monthly magazine about the new economy, will be shut down rather than sold, its owners at Time Inc. have decided. The publication, which has been suffering from a decline in advertising revenue, will cease publication after its October issue, which will [...]


Microformats UK (alpha release) launches - an aggregated view of the microformats blogosphere

Today I launched the Alpha version of Microformats UK, a microformats research aggregator of some sorts. I started the project out of frustration of not being able to quickly keep myself updated with latest Microformats developments. I believe Microformat adoption will increase as their usefulness becomes better understood by the wider web design community. To [...]


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