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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I remember in 2007 there were a few people getting very excited about QR codes, which are special bar codes that can be read by mobile phones and such like. They were predicting they’d be in magazines, on posters, t-shirts… all over the place. We were all meant to be scanning these codes to link [...]
I’ve been leading technical projects and teams for getting on for 20 years, but my current role is the first where open source has been a point of principle. I’ve used open source software many times, but I’ve reached a point where it’s become important to explicitly support and advocate its use. Why? The first, [...]
This is a link to Google’s Street View of the SIS HQ at Vauxhall. How did they get the bus to follow Google’s car all the way alongside the building? Was it waiting all morning for the Google car to come past? Cunning.
I used to use a tool called OpenAds, which was an open source ad server. Very impressive in itself, but the latest version, now called OpenX, looks even better. I’ve set it up on my blog as a test, and signed up for it to serve the ads on my site that I always had [...]
http://refreshyourcache.com/en/home/ is dedicated to telling people how to clear their browser caches. And that’s all it does.
