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Monthly Archives: May 2010


Twitter – the future of Law Enforcement?

Unless you’ve spent a fortnight locked in a darkened room without access to television, Internet or radio, the chances are that you’ll have heard of the now-infamous “Twitter Joke Trial”. Paul Chambers, a Twitter user, was arrested by four police officers and tried under the communications act. For an ill-judged … Continue Reading


IP Address Glass Significantly Less Than Half Full

September 9th 2011 is a day that will surely live in infamy, because that’s the scheduled date for the release of the last bundle of IP addresses. And if experts are to be believed, the Internet’s whole remaining address space will be accounted for a year after that. As everything … Continue Reading


FirstFound’s Friday Round Up

It’s Friday May 14th, 2010 and as promised we’re here to share some of the best blog posts we’ve read this week. David Leonhardt’s Daily SEO Tips discusses link building for your links. In a week when everyone’s talking about the end of permission marketing, Brian Carl explains how Threadless … Continue Reading


Become a Better Tweeter in Just Two Minutes

We may have mentioned Twitter before on the FirstFound Blog, and every single tech/SEO/marketing blog you’ve ever read is packed full of helpful information on how to make the most of the social media platform. But who’s got time to read through all the backlog when there’s Tweeting to be … Continue Reading


The A-Z of Ecommerce Acronyms

If you’re attempting to run an Ecommerce site, then you’ll have been confronted with a whole host of baffling and bewildering acronyms. Working out just what anyone is talking about can be a veritable minefield, so the FirstFound Blog has put together a handy A-Z (well, A-X) guide to Ecommerce … Continue Reading


FirstFound Founder Gets on His Bike

Move over Sir Chris Hoy, because cycling’s got a new champion. Ok, that might be over-egging the pudding slightly, but FirstFound’s MD Chris Bellamy is hopping on his bike to raise money for a good cause. For a number of years, FirstFound have supported the Lancasterian Specialist School for Communication … Continue Reading


New Google Interface is Live!

If you’ve done any searching over the weekend, you may well have noticed that Google’s had a few changes. We’re not just talking the tweaks to the logo (although it does look much brighter) – we’re talking about the changes to the search engine results page (SERP). Yes, there are … Continue Reading


FirstFound’s Friday Round Up

That’s right, here at the FirstFound Blog, we’ve been trawling the blogosphere so you don’t have to. So here’s the pick of the week’s links from the SEO community: See what the SEO Noobie ranks as his best free Twitter tools. Has Google just killed your online business? Century House … Continue Reading


2010 Election – the Social Media Roundup

After a month of hard campaigning, Election day is finally here. Up and down the country, millions of people will be casting their votes, and by tomorrow we should have an idea who the Prime Minister will be. Unless there’s a hung parliament. But whatever the outcome, 2010 will be … Continue Reading


Google to enter the eBook market

Anyone who’s paid attention to what Google have been up to for the past few years will know that they’ve been scanning and indexing over 12 million in-print and out-of-print books. Unsurprisingly, news sources this morning are reporting that they’ve found a way of turning this stack of digital paper … Continue Reading