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Google turns 10

This weekend, Google celebrated its 10th birthday.

In September 1998, armed with $100,000 in seed money, Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page began a journey that a decade later has seen the development of a $150bn company that employs more than 20,000 people.

by Drama 2.0 08 September 2008 08:30am 1 comment

E-consultancy shortlisted for award... woop!

Happy faces here at E-consultancy Towers (aka Lemon Studios) this morning following the news that we have been shortlisted in this year's AOP Awards.

We've been lucky enough to win two of these awards previously, and here's hoping we can add to our collection this year. Penguin suits at the ready!

by Chris Lake 03 September 2008 14:58pm 1 comment

The first half of 2008: the internet economy in review

With the first half of 2008 solidly behind us, I thought it'd be worthwhile to look back at some of the general trends established in the internet economy. After all, it's hard to know where you're going if you don't know where you've been.

What follows are the most important trends I saw in the first half of the year.

by Drama 2.0 03 September 2008 08:50am 0 comments

Q&A: ITV.com’s Marc Webber on online video content

Marc Webber is the head of content at ITV.com and the man in charge of developing its fast-growing broadband TV service.

Here, we ask him about the progress the broadcaster is making with its catch-up TV and made-for-web content, as well as in developing new revenue streams like product placement.

by Richard Maven 02 September 2008 12:50pm 0 comments

Guardian revamps its blogs

The Guardian has updated its blogs section to bring it in line with the rest of the site, while navigation and comment functionality has also been improved.

Guardian showbiz blog

At first glance, the new design looks pretty good, but we've taken a closer look to find out more...

by Graham Charlton 26 August 2008 14:45pm 1 comment

The Web Week in Review

It was a slow news week in the world of technology as far as I was concerned, but there were still a few stories that caught my eye.

by Drama 2.0 22 August 2008 10:45am 1 comment

Is PR broken?

Steve Rubel, a senior vice president at Edelman Digital, essentially asked in a recent blog post if PR is becoming obsolete.

by Drama 2.0 21 August 2008 08:45am 4 comments

BBC finally experiments with in-text 'links'

The BBC is experimenting with the idea of linking out to external sources from within the body text of its news articles, in a trial which will last for four weeks.

Obviously this is a good idea, though why it has taken a decade for the BBC to roll out a 'trial' is anybody's guess (though it won't have done any harm to The Beeb's own Pagerank).

However, the way it is going about this is, well, a little bit Noddy...

by Graham Charlton 18 August 2008 12:29pm 11 comments