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Jim Muttram

Prescription for a digital future for news

Edward Roussel of the Telegraph has a long post outlining the challenges he sees facing newspapers today and some suggestions about how to tackle them, including a 10 point plan. Among the tips are: "narrow the focus", "engage with your readers", "embrace multimedia" and "invest…

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Jim Muttram

Online ads and effectiveness

Marketingcharts.com reports on a survey by Burst Media which it says shows just how little tolerance users have to ad-cluttered sites. More than half say they have a low tolerance for more than two ads per page 27% say they will only tolerate one ad…

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Jim Muttram

A symbol for our times?

The Web 2.0 equivalent of the coffee-pot webcam - updated for our world. Control Lights with Twitter from Justin Wickett on Vimeo. Pointless, but strangely compelling... Technorati Tags: internet, twitter

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Jim Muttram

The world of Web 2.0

Ever wished there was one single page with every Web 2.0 company you could imagine listed on it - it's here. How many will still be here in a couple of years? Who knows? Technorati Tags: web2

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Jim Muttram

Brickhouse to close

Yahoo's innovation hot-house in San Francisco, Brickhouse, is to close. The products it has been responsible for - Pipes and FireEagle, for instance - seem to be safe according to Twitter reports from insiders. Technorati Tags: innovation, recession, yahoo

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