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PENGUIN and Match.com to write a new chapter in how to find love

2008-08-29T13:50:23Z

Penguin and match.com have just launched www.penguindating.co.uk , a service which brings together book lovers and dating for the very first time. Taking romance into the 21st century, Penguin has partnered with us to ensure their readers have th...

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YOU’VE GOT FEMALE

2008-08-21T11:42:46Z

We’ve just lanched a new TV marketing campaign to follow on from the strong start to the year for the UK’s biggest online dating service. In the first half of 2008, our site recorded seven of its busiest days ever and the summer tactical ad buy w...

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Tony Benn is right again.

2008-07-25T13:47:43Z

I went to see Tony Benn speak at the Festival Hall a week or so ago. Spurred on by the depth and range of his political insight and humour I’ve been reading some of his previous speeches and writing about Democracy, The EEC and Open Government. T...

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Its called "The Big Apple" because of betting on horse racing in the 1920's apparently.

2008-07-16T21:49:56Z

Just arrived in New York for the week with our creative agency and a couple of things of interest happening over here. Firstly, saw Bush on TV night doing a press meeting, the guy looked liked that creepy uncle that tries too hard to be funny and...

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"The Best Of Digital Marketing Practice Explained By Revolution's Handpicked Experts"

2008-07-03T17:04:14Z

On Tuesday this week I was a speaker at the Revolution – Digital Futures Conference in London, I was "handpicked" according to the blurb which was neither uncomfortable or as nerve-wracking as it sounds. The title of my presentation was Customer ...

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Nomophobia

2008-06-23T18:16:11Z

As if the world doesn't have enough neurotic disorders already (for me it all ended when I found out you can have a morbid fear of cheese - Turophobia) I discovered that the latest neurosis is the fear of being out of mobile phone contact - Nomop...

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Oxford, Ofcom and Social Networks

2008-06-09T14:02:13Z

I recently had the opportunity to sit on a panel at a Social Networking Conference organised by Oxford University's Internet Institute and Ofcom. According to Ofcom’s report on social networking almost one in five use these sites to introduce t...

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Google Zeitgeist 2008 on YouTube

2008-05-26T14:31:17Z

The videos of every session, and of the Gala Dinner entertainers, are now available on YouTube. You can access them by visiting http://uk.youtube.com/user/eurozeitgeist08. The highlights for me are the conversations with Salman Rushdie and the te...

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Google Zeitgeist - Partner Forum 2008

2008-05-19T18:54:09Z

I’m currently attending the Google Partner Forum held at The Grove Hotel in Hertfordshire. The key note this morning was given by Gordon Brown, I read about this in the Times yesterday with some suspicion as they pointed out that perhaps this was...

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Online dating thrives on social net

2008-04-23T06:04:04Z

2008 seems set to be the year that the popularity of online dating makes it truly mainstream. Over the past couple of months, we’ve seen coverage of online dating and match.com on high profile programmes including Sky News and Working Lunch and, ...

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