January 2008
3 posts
Predicting the future →
A colleague recently pointed at this chart from Google Trends showing searches for ‘recession’. It’s interesting to see this relatively technical economic term catch the zeitgeist in real time. But what he was really showing me was the way searches for recession rose sharply significantly in advance of Monday’s financial markets bloodbath. His supposition of course was that...
I love friendfeed →
For a few months now I’ve been using a new web service that is super useful. It’s created by a few ex-Google luminaries and it’s called friendfeed. At it’s core friendfeed keeps track of all my activity on a dizzying array of social web services (delicious, flickr, picasa, last.fm, twitter, google reader, posts to this blog and more) and republishes it as a news feed to...
2007 Top Picks Number 1 - Arcade Fire →
So here it is. Late as usual - sorry - but better than last year. I got turned on to Arcade Fire (as with many other things) via Fred Wilson’s blog. Their first album Neighbourhood is a cracker: raw, rousing and full of drama. Well the follow up, ‘Neon Bible’ takes everything to the next level. Fred thinks they’ve gone ‘a bit U2’ with this one, but I completely...