Internet Culture from London… and beyond
Transcultural Marketing
Social networks are lost in translation…
Oct 7th
The Brits are notoriously bad at foreign languages. I have met so many people in the UK, including Brits, Kiwis, Ozzies, Saffas and Americans, who wished they could speak another language. There seems to be a common misconception that learning a foreign language is easy. My dear friends, you couldn’t More >
The horny onion and the scary looking gherkin
Sep 1st
This almost sounds like a twisted tale written in Vegetable Land! I am in fact talking about Burger King’s latest Dutch ad campaign, spotted on Marketing Profs Daily fix.
After landing in Amsterdam, feeling a little peckish, Paul Williams headed to Burger King and discovered this controversial ad on his tray…
Cuil review from a linguistic point of view…
Jul 28th
I picked up a thread by Mashable on Twitter this morning talking about the new search engine Cuil, packed with ex-Googlers in their team. Cuil claim to be the world’s biggest search engine, with an index of 120 billion websites in the world. Rather than relying on superficial popularity metrics, Cuil More >




