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Twitter – Less Interactive Than You’d Think

30, Sep 2010

While we’re sat around waiting for New Twitter to appear on our screens, the FirstFound Blog team have been reading up on just how good Twitter is for engaging with people. And according to this post at ReadWriteWeb, the answer is quite surprising. It turns out that only around a third of Tweets result in [...]

Blog Comment Etiquette

29, Sep 2010

Leaving comments on relevant and well regarded blogs is a link building technique that divides opinions. Some people claim it will have no effect on listings, others swear by it. What is true though, is that a well-written comment will drive traffic towards your site, regardless of whether your search engine listings benefit. But just [...]

Solicitors Under Scrutiny from Online Privacy Campaigners

28, Sep 2010

Online rights organisation Privacy International is about to launch a legal campaign against ACS: Law, a firm of UK solicitors who accidentally leaked the names and addresses of over 5,000 Sky Broadband customers. The firm in question specialise in tracking down P2P “Pirates” who illegally share content, before handing them substantial fines. This brought them [...]

Happy Birthday Google News!

23, Sep 2010

Depending on who you believe, it’s either a fantastic source of up-to-the-minute information or a service designed to steal content from News International websites. Google News has split opinions across the news industry, but as of this week it’ll have been quietly doing its thing for 8 years. Indexing over 50,000 sources (including The FirstFound [...]

One in Five Students Claim to be Hackers

22, Sep 2010

According to a poll of 1,000  students, 37% of people attending the UK’s college and universities claim to have hacked into computer systems. These keyboard warriors have avoided traditional targets such as banks, international companies and The Pentagon to target much larger, tougher prey. Yes, 37% have hacked a friend’s Facebook profile, while 26% have [...]

All-Star Gala Dinner for the Lancasterian School

21, Sep 2010

On October 23rd, The Lancasterian School and FirstFound will be holding a black-tie event at Manchester’s Lowry Hotel. The evening will feature music from the Ivor Novello award-winning Cherry Ghost, and an auction and raffle hosted by a special guest compere. You could win anything from a case of champagne to a helicopter ride! Tickets [...]

Ask Jeeves’ Unanswerables – How do the Other Search Engines Fare?

20, Sep 2010

The only search engine with a suited mascot, Ask Jeeves (formerly Ask, formerly Ask Jeeves) is ten today. And to celebrate, they’re asking some of life’s “Unanswerable Questions“. But are they really unanswerable? Or could Google and Bing do better? We’re going to put the two leading search engines to the test by asking them [...]

Is Facebook Going to Increase Your Insurance Premiums?

16, Sep 2010

Yes, another day, another way that the Internet is going to make your life a little bit worse. Hot on the heels of Google destroying your brain comes news from Confused.com – using social media services could lead to a hike in your insurance premiums. Following a spate of burglaries prompted by people filling in [...]

New Twitter is Coming

15, Sep 2010

The furore over Google Instant still hasn’t died down, but that hasn’t stopped another cornerstone of the online experience from announcing that they’re changing how they do things. Micro-blogging platform Twitter has announced that as of today, it will be rolling out an updated interface to all of its users. The new update will include [...]

Celebrity Autobiographies? There’s an App for that.

14, Sep 2010

It seems that iPad and iPhone Applications (Apps) are no longer just for keeping up to date with social media, playing games and keeping up to date with football results. Apple’s number one fan and product evangelist Stephen Fry has decided that rather than printing his autobiography on paper, like every other writer since the [...]


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