Exploring A Googlized Reality

UK Interest In Blogs Stronger Than Ever

It's a great time to run a UK-oriented blog.  UK traffic levels to blogs and personal sites have taken a couple of deep dips over the past few years, but according to new Hitwise data, visits have now risen and reached a record high.

Twitter Survives Apple Conference

Fans and critics alike expected Twitter's new "status" blog to be a busy place yesterday, and in one sense, the company didn't disappoint.  Posts mainly focused on preventative measures, however, and Twitter more or less made it through Apple's big event without failing.

YouTube, Disney, Top Video Sites For Kids

Initially, it's nice to think that kids and teens watching more online video at home than adults is because, with work and responsibilities and all that, adults just don't have that kind of time. But considering adults watch most of their online video at work, that half-hour less they spend at home watching belies that conventional wisdom.

SMS Based Charity Systems

There are tons of uses for SMS (text messaging); Clickatell recently published a guide to 101 business uses for SMS. I'm still making my way through it, but it's a great read. Read/Write Web last week posted a great guide to how SMS is being used for giving.