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This one passed me by - Google is offering diy display advertising. Simply select a template, customise it with your words and images, choose your targets and you're ready to go - on the Google Content Network which is "1 million sites reaching over 75%…

There's a great post by Fred Wilson, a New York-based VC, who writes about internet business models. He says the obsession with revenue isn't the only - or even the best - way for internet start ups to build success. Focussing on costs can be…

About eight years ago I went with a bunch of colleagues from Reed Elsevier to visit the Microsoft campus in Redmond and was treated to a presentation from Rick Rashid, the head of Microsoft Research. The most striking thing I heard him say was that…

Smashingmagazine has a feature on 404 error pages which really work, reflecting the site's character and helping disgruntled users to find what they are looking for, even when the site navigation lets them down. The gallery has lots of great examples. Really worth a look.

There has been a sudden upsurge in public discussion of Twitter prompted by celebrity Twitterers such as @wossy (Jonathan Ross) and @stephenfry (guess who). This has deflected attention away from the hugely imaginative and creative developments which are taking place in the Twitter ecosystem. There…