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What is the point of a “Do Not Disturb” sign for your hotel door, if you then get a phone call from housekeeping asking when it is convenient to be disturbed?

Seeing as tonight is the IMNY Charity Party here at SES New York I was doing some rooting around for some way to link to some BOTW content and found this little gem yesterday – Best Of The Web Awards 1998 – 10 years is a long time in New Media…..

“Best Navigation Aid (?) – Yahoo!”

“Most Important Concept – MapQuest (closely followed by eBay!)”

There’s no Google and no social networking platforms although RuralVermont.com wins best site designed to serve a local community!

Does anyone remember Urban Fetch?

PS: Greg – Nice to meet you last night at last! Thanks for voting for me, I’m just sorry 83k Microsoft employees couldn’t swing it for me!

Very excited to say our new site for the adCenter Blogs & Forums is now live at www.adCenterCommunity.com

There you’ll find all the lates news, views, tips, tricks and best practices and forms including:

adCenter Advertiser Blog

adCenter Analytics Blog

adCenter Api Blog

Check them out, register, get involved and give us your feedback….. 🙂

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Watch Steve ROAR for Web Developers!

Arrived on Friday and spent the weekend working on our announcement tomorrow at Search Engine Strategies New York and getting out & about. If you’re thinking of going shopping, Macys is pretty cheap and they offer overseas visitors an 11% off pretty much anything in the store just for not being American!

Turn up at the Visitor Center and show some ID and you’d get a discount card!

The Hilton

View From My Room

Healthy Breakfast!

Homesick

Do You Take British Pounds?

Times Square

So That’s Where The Marketing Budget Went!

The Say That British SEOs Are Bright On Broadway

Dinner Anyone?

Medium-Rare Please Dave!

Them Travelling Shoes!

I’m on a plane later this afternoon, jetting off to The Big Apple for Search Engine Strategies.

Microsoft will be at the show in force – check out the line up at the adCenter Blog which is moving!

Part of the reason I’m making the trip. All very exciting and all will be revealed on Monday 😉

Alistair Darling’s budget yesterday raised a few eyebrows, and I dare say has tightened a few belts in beer-quaffing and gas-guzzling circles.

Find out how his sums affect you with this nifty little Online Budget Calculator from the BBC!

Hot on the heels of my personal tale last week, BBC London has been carrying out its own investigation…

The report entitled Is the Internet a fraudsters paradise? follows the real life case of hackers getting hold of data from a “lavender lotion” merchant based in Carshalton in Surrey.

The way this feature was presented on TV this morning was a bit dark and heavy handed, but I suppose gets the point across to people who may not be so careful when purchasing online.

While there is an issue, we must remember that internet fraud accounts for just a fraction of the billions of pounds spent online every year.

A very cool site outlining how Windows Vista & Windows Live can enhance the Digital Lifestyles of four very different journeys across this mortal coil.

From now on get a Windows Digital Life!

Media Week here in the UK, have partnered with Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions to bring interviews with media industry notables to the very small screen.

Media Week TV anchorman Steve Barrett is actually the publication’s editor. Using his clout to wrestle high-profile names in the media industry onto his couch for a chat, Steve’s managed to secure spots with Michael Heseltine, Michael Grade, and more recently Facebook commercial director, Blake Chandlee.

The latest luminaries, talking about how they’re handling the editorial and commercial tranistion to the online world, are Nicholas Coleridge, managing director of British Condé Nast, and Simon Waldman, group director of digital strategy and development at Guardian Media Group. Check out what they have to say here!