Economist Interview
Just been interviewed for The Economist for an article on the psychology of online health information.
24th April 2009
Author: Graham Jones
LBC wants me to take part in a programme
LBC – the London-based talk radio station – has just called asking me to appear on a programme.
23rd April 2009
Politics
Oh Darling, what a buddy brilliant budget
Alistair Darling’s latest budget was brilliant – at least that’s what you think if your name is Gordon Brown. The body language at the Dispatch Box yesterday was remarkable. As soon as the Right Honourable Member for Edinburgh South West had delivered his budget speech, his boss from Number 10
23rd April 2009
Internet marketing is not all it’s cracked up to be
Internet marketers could only be scratching the surface of what’s possible online. New data suggests that making money online is dependent more on what you do offline than how well you run your web site or optimize it for search. An analysis of money-making applications on Facebook shows that less
22nd April 2009
Daily Express interview on email psychology
The Daily Express just interviewed me about email psychology for a feature later this week.
22nd April 2009
Online Business
Cyberloafing is good for you and your business
People who use the Internet for personal things during work time are actually doing companies more good than harm. Called “cyberloafing”, the act of looking at YouTube, or doing some shopping on eBay during office hours can make people happier in their work. According to a new study of cyberloafing
21st April 2009
Search
Search engines limit our ability to find things online
Your eyes do funny things when you look at a web page. Eye tracking technology shows us that they tend to follow an F-shaped pattern of eye movement across the screen. But new research could bring this into question. The new research shows us this may be down to the
17th April 2009
London Evening Standard interview on email psychology
The London Evening Standard interviewed me today for an article due to appear in tomorrow’s newspaper about the psychology of email and how we can all get more people to read and act on our emails and how we can inject personality into emails.
16th April 2009
Online Business
How to double your web site traffic
Web site owners the world over want more traffic. It’s highly unlikely that you want less traffic for your own web site, or that you are happy with the traffic you get. No matter how many people who visit your web site, you probably want more. You want crowds of
16th April 2009
Your Easter break could cost you
Are you in the middle of your Easter break? Having a nice relaxing time? Eating lots of chocolate and maybe going to church? That’s great – but take care; while you are off on your four-day break, your competitors are grabbing your customers and getting them to spend money with
10th April 2009
Social
Unfinished products can succeed
Product developers often want to ensure that the “baby” they have lovingly produced for the world is as complete as it can possibly be. They want the design to be right, the features to be perfect and the testing to be so thorough that no-one will find fault at launch.
9th April 2009
Daily Telegraph article on “life after death”
Dail Telegraph interviewed me yesterday for today’s article on Legacy Locker. http://snurl.com/fkhgs
9th April 2009
Psychology
Google’s halo is slipping – have you checked yours lately
Increasingly vocal criticisms of Google suggest that its halo is slipping. In psychological terms, it is teetering on the edge of falling victim to the “reverse halo effect”. The “halo effect” itself is whereby we judge a brand, a company, or a person based on just one fact we know
8th April 2009
Online Business
Google’s new maps show direction for online business
People searching for restaurants online will now be shown localised results with maps to potential eating places, thanks to the latest innovation from Google. Indeed, if you are looking for anything that could be found locally, Google will now insert a map into the search results for you, largely by
7th April 2009
Blogging is a massive waste of time
Bloggers are wasting millions of hours of productivity around the world – and it’s getting worse. Just over two blog postings are made every second of every day – and that’s only for the regularly active blogs. According to the latest figures from blogwatcher, Technorati, around 3m blogs are updated
6th April 2009
Google to buy Twitter – oh help…!
Google is in the final stages of negotiations to buy Twitter, according to “people close to the negotiations” who have informed TechCrunch. If this turns out to be true, it could be a disaster for Twitter users. Google’s virtual monopoly position online means it will be able to do almost
3rd April 2009
Facebook users are better workers
Facebook users are better employees. According to new research from the University of Melbourne, people who are allowed to use Facebook at work are more productive than people who don’t have access to the social networking site. The study shows that in offices where people are allowed access to Facebook
2nd April 2009
Psychologists produce psychic social network
American psychologists working in London have teamed up with French educationalists to produce a new social network that understands your motives and intentions based upon what you type in. They hope to use the new system to eliminate the considerable amount of time wasting that goes on as a result
1st April 2009