brillant expose of the behavioural differences in china. the instant messaging paradigm is key and very well explained, mirroring my research findings in china this summer.

search and stuff... good conversation

"88% of searches for the top 2,000 search terms in the UK were branded in nature, up from 81% in 2007 and 66% in 2005."

how bloody useful is this? matthew deserves a trophy, a CBE even for all the stuff he does for the Public good.

wowsa. currybet pointed me at this wondrous resource. never be without a pattern design example again.

a good round-up of where we're at and the pros of using pragmatic means to mine the [newly] metadata rich world.

interetsing breakdown of searches for 'petrol prices' by geo-loc which finds the topic of most concern [big presumption here] in marginal seats.

neat! navel gazing geek narcissism becoming ever more possible...

I;m kinda surprised by jon's take on this - I thought he'd be in the long tail economics camp with regard to the text based adwords model. odd. but more interesting and thought provoking for all that.

"Semantic discovery is a way to find information without knowing explicitly what you're looking for BUT "you know it when you see it." " - - there are some BIG assumptions there and on first pass it fails the big one. I didn't know when I saw it!

"Google is not prepared for the live web. Google values pages that grow links and clicks over time. It understands the permanent web. Of course, that is a protean thing, a growing brain. But it’s not live." There are different representations of Live, t

Out in town, see something that interests you, want to know more about it, point your mobile's translucent display at it and using a combination of GPS, its in-built camera and meta-data off the web, you will be able to find loads of information about it.