Daily Archives: 31 August, 2010

Nine months to impress my wife – the Babyelephant.ie story

Babyelephant.ie

Babysitting Babyelephant

In 2008, nine months after the birth of our first child, my wife launched Babyelephant.ie. The baby and the business have done well since then. Now with our second baby due in early September I have kindly/foolishly offered to launch it in the UK and she has kindly/foolishly accepted. This is first blog showing the successes and failures of the launch over next 9 months. Read More »

Dallas Morning News to launch paywall – Dallas Cowboys content to cost

It must be paywall day (again). It is being reported that The Dallas Morning News plans to erect a paywall around part of its website. This will apparently include its coverage of the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys. Read More »

Google acquires social network Angstro – is Google Me getting close?

Is Google Me getting closer? Maybe. Google has bought social networking start-up Angstro and hired its founder Rohit Khare as it continues to challenge Facebook. This follows some changes it made last week to Orkut, which is fast losing ground to its US rival. Read More »

Paywall strategy failure – The Times today

I’d been meaning to write this post for a while or at least every time I skip to the homepage of The Times and skip away just as quickly. I don’t understand why it pushes news so much on its homepage when it is all available to read elsewhere for free. It makes no sense. Read More »

MySpace: A reminder. It is still here and doing O.K.

Social media fans may mock (I can hear you), but a timely reminder in Ad Week that MySpace is still here and maybe it has more fans than you may realise: 61 million uniques in July second only to Facebook’s 146 million. Read More »