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Monthly Archives: June 2009

Pod1 gets audited

I’ve just written a post about PCI compliance for the Pod1 blog. You can read it here.

Graze.com – fantastic new snack delivery service

I just received my first delivery from graze.com, a service that delivers healthy (and not healthy) snacks to your home or office regularly. The website’s a great experience (lots of control, rating opportunities, personalised product and some lovely Ajax coding), and the product looks good too. This is the sort of smart innovative new service [...]

Banana bag, anyone?

Yesterday I was looking at Lakeland’s website and browsed to a particular product by searching for “banana”. Lakeland sell several products that will help you to care for and transport bananas, and their search tool made these very easy to find.
Later, I went to Cineworld’s website, to look up when the new Terminator film is [...]

Useful guide to DIY PR

Devon Dudgeon, a former colleague of mine at Agency.com, has written a helpful guide for small business and the self-employed to do it yourself online PR. It’s available here. It drew a few things to my attention that look useful to anyone, including the ability to create a Google public profile for yourself.
Well worth a [...]

Google establishes dominance in web tracking

According to this research Google now has an enormously dominant position in the tracking of which websites we visit every day. They have their Google Analytics tags on millions of websites, including 92 of the top 100. This is important, because it positions them to do extremely targetted advertising when their ad products are used. [...]

Making a billion online

I’ve been wanting to write something about the value Facebook has as a business for some time, but it was this story at econsultancy’s blog that finally provoked me into action. Since Facebook sold a stake recently to a Russian investor, there’s been wild speculation and stacks of comment about how the company could possibly [...]

Do offers always work?

Yesterday I received an email from a car hire company containing an offer that must end soon. I didn’t book any car hire because of it though, because I don’t need to hire a car. Had the offer been for, say, a cheap flight to Paris, I might have taken it up, but very few [...]