Remember when you used to type a search term into Google and get a little block back with a single link to each website?
Nowadays, Google go to extreme lengths to understand the structure of a site and give popular shortcuts in its own results, as in the example for the Royal Mail in this post. [...]
Lots of people have problems with spam, in their email, but web developers also have problems with people putting garbage into websites. I get a lot of comments from spammers who are trying to get links to their websites onto my blog. We get computer programs trying to win (by cheating) competitions we have created [...]
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Trafalgar square today, originally uploaded by harkmopwood.
Trafalgar Square has been turfed to promote greenery in London. Here are a couple of shots from my phone.
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Trafalgar square today, originally uploaded by harkmopwood.
Trafalgar Square has been turfed to promote greenery in London. Here are a couple of shots from my phone.
Some recent user generated content projects have been pretty disappointing in their responses, but that really isn’t the case with some of the entries for Pringles’ Spiderman 3 contest. Contestants are invited to submit videos on the theme of Pringles as a Hero, and some of them are incredible. People are spending serious amounts of [...]
Thanks to Iain at http://www.crackunit.com/2007/05/22/spot-the-bull/ for reminding me of this. Poke have GPS-enabled a Bull for Orange (at http://spotthebull.orange.co.uk/ and competitors have to guess where it is exactly on a map, to win tickets to Glastonbury.
I really like the combination of web, GPS and a fabulous sense of humour that came up with all of [...]
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With Google making so much of their data collection and targeting potential, I made the observation the other day that more people trust Google than trust the Government, and some people had the temerity to disagree with me, so I’m keen [...]
Google are in every news report I read, see or hear this week. They even made it into London Lite last nite, where it’s said they’re going to start answering questions like "where should I go on holiday?" based on the data they’ve captured about you from past interactions with their [...]
This is the presentation I used at today’s Brown Bag Lunch on blogging at Agency.com.
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Attendees at the blog presentation, originally uploaded by harkmopwood.
What do you think of them then? A good crowd?