The Beta News

These fake vintage ads for Facebook, Skype and Youtube created by Brazilian ad agency Moma for a media seminar called “Everything Ages Fast”. They are just brilliant. Thanks to Laughing Squid.

I was “lucky” enough to get a beta invite to Google Friend Connect and like any good blogger I never turn Google down. Nobody wants to get in bad standing with Google. So now I’ve installed it so please join this site, which is now in the same league as The Inquistr, Louis Gray, Mashable, [...]

It’s the International Talk Like a Pirate Day today. So if you are into pirate talk, this is the day for ye matey. Of course all the major social media sites are jumping on the bandwagon including Facebook in pirate talk, select English (Pirate) and you can see how many of ye Mateys are on [...]

If you missed Larissa Meek’s interview last week, make sure you head over there and read it. This week it’s Lisa Brewster’s turn to show me her desktop. Lisa Brewster aka. Adora calls herself “just some girl on the internet”, but if you ask me, she is on her way to being much more than [...]

According to experts the use of online advertising will increase by 23% in 2008. This is more than 40 billion dollars, but a riot might be around the corner. Adsense has made Google one most valuable companies in the world and the ads on social networks such as Facebook help those companies make billions each [...]

From time to time people are kind enough to mail me and ask me to write about their startup or interview someone. I just love to get these mails. It makes me feel important and a bit like Darren Rowse and Shoemoney. Many of the mails are the copy/paste standard “Hey interesting site you have. [...]