Archive for December, 2010

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The Night Before Christmas – An SEO Tale (With apologies to Clement Clarke Moore)

23, Dec 2010

People enjoyed this so much last year that we thought we’d re-use it this year. Think of it as re-gifting. Twas the night before Christmas, when all through your site Not a product was selling, and your traffic was… Bad. The shopping carts empty and checkout lists bare, Dashed hopes that some customers soon would [...]

The FirstFound Blog’s Top Stories of 2010

22, Dec 2010

2010′s been an eventful year here at FirstFound HQ, and we’ve had to work hard to keep our readers up to date with the very latest SEO, Social Media and Online news. So in case you can’t cast your mind back 12 months, here’s a selection of the biggest stories of the year. Google Starts [...]

Twitter in Trials – Social Networking Service allowed in courts

21, Dec 2010

Unless you’ve had your head buried in a snowdrift for the past few weeks, the chances are that you’ll have heard of Julian Assange. The Wikileaks head honcho has been in court in the UK this month – and a ruling from that trial has just been approved by the Lord Chief Justice for England [...]

World’s Oldest Facebook User is an iPad Fan

20, Dec 2010

A woman from Tenby, Pembrokeshire is thought to be the oldest current user of Facebook. 103 year old  Lillian Lowe is an ex-hotel owner who’s spending her hard-earned retirement surfing on her trusty Apple iPad. As such, Mrs Lowe has become something of a Facebook celebrity. Along with friend requests from her great-grand children, Lillian [...]

Oil Spills, iPads and Justin Bieber – Twitter Trends 2010

17, Dec 2010

Well, we’ve already covered Google and Facebook, so now it’s time to turn to Twitter for the top trends of 2010. The microblogging service is used by millions of users to discuss the minutae of their daily lives, so we can only assume that Twitter’s trending topics algorithm disregards our predicted winner – “I’m having [...]

World Cup, Soldiers and Cher: Facebook Zeitgeist 2010

15, Dec 2010

We’ve already seen what people have been searching for on Google in 2010,  but today Facebook have entered the zeitgeist fray to tell us just what the residents of the world’s largest social network have been talking about. Facebook’s Fastest Growing Global Trends HMU – Apparently it’s the Internet’s hottest new acronym and means “Hit [...]

Twitter Coming to London?

14, Dec 2010

It looks like the government’s posturing on London becoming Europe’s Silicon Valley is starting to pay off. Following meetings between David Cameron, Boris Johnson, and leading executives from Twitter, one of the world’s leading social sites could be coming to the UK. But there’s one potential stumbling block with Twitter’s European HQ being set up [...]

Bieber, iPads and ChatRoulette – Google Reveals 2010′s Top Trends

10, Dec 2010

It’s that time of year again folks. Google have released their yearly report on just what the world has been searching for. And to illustrate just what’s been going on in 2010, they’ve put together a great video:

WikiLeaks ‘Hacktivists’ Declare War on Web Banking

9, Dec 2010

Hell hath no fury like an army of online activists scorned. PayPal, MasterCard and Visa have all decided to cut off payments to the WikiLeaks website, an act which obviously hasn’t endeared them to the online activists ‘Anonymous’. So, in a move nobody could have failed to predict, Anonymous retaliated last night with “Operation Payback” [...]

Google Still on The Warpath, Now it’s After a Slice of the OS Pie

8, Dec 2010

Yesterday, Amazon – today, the world? Not content with launching an online book store, cornering the search market, mapping most of the developed world, running one of the most stable webmail platforms, dropping the odd dead duck and (allegedly) building a soon-to-be-released “Facebook Killer”, Google have decided to take time out from their busy schedule [...]


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