Monthly Archives: June 2008

Is it me or is Ken Livingstone sounding like a broken record? He lost and now he’s acting like the worst loser of all time. Looking to wait for Boris to make a mistake? Honestly, like the rest of his compatriots, he really doesn’t know when his time is up!

Will we, in the future, view yesterday’s Conservative by-election victory in Henley as the actual day when there was no turning back for the Labour Government, leading to a Conservative general election victory and David Cameron as Prime Minister? I think perhaps so, and if you have read any of today’s media I’m sure you think the same. It seems so timely that the Henley thrashing has come at a time exactly a year after Mr Brown became PM. We’ve had one year and it seems long enough.

Here are some great analysis pieces for you to have a butchers at…

Nick Robinson’s blog
Politics Home research
Political Betting
Polly Toynbee @ Comment is Free
Daily Telegraph

Hi peeps. Just a quick flag…I’m starting to contribute to the great Londonist blog. Here is my first contribution, all about the State of London Debate that took place the other night. Enjoy and feel free to stay in touch with my contributions!

1. Techcrunch – Google Faces Off With Compete, Alexa, Comscore, Quantcast (And Soon Firefox)
Google launches a website traffic tool

2. Reuters – Nokia buys social networking site Plazes
Nokia makes social network acquisition

3. Read/Write Web – Nokia Acquires Symbian; Takes on Google’s Android
Nokia acquires the open source mobile operating system

4. Financial Times – Facebook heads MySpace in unique visitors

5. Mashable – YouTube Officially Launches Personalized Homepage

6. Techcrunch – Modeling The Real Market Value Of Social Networks
A look at the valuation of social networks