Graze are worried about the possible postal strike this week. So they’ve reworked their product offering so it doesn’t go off in the post, and sent this very cool email.
The brown boxes are arriving at our office in huge quantities now: Pod1’s going to need a bigger mailbox soon.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 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 [...]
This BBC news story makes the point that online fraud is going to be an increasing challenge for retailers this year, as online fraud matures into something serious criminals do. What used to be a hobby for vandals or gifted amateurs is now seen as a legitimate source of income in illegitimate businesses. It’s not [...]
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
I don’t know whether I really like this for its sincerity and humanity, or really feel it’s just wrong. I’m not at all sure what to make of it…
It’s almost exactly nine years to the day since Ocado started in a temporary office in central London, and at this festive time of the year [...]