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How NOT to Engage With a Social Media Audience

6, Jul 2010

Oh dear. It’s not like the Beeb to make a mistake with their microsites. But as The Media Blog reported over the weekend, someone in the BBC web design department doesn’t like Facebook. The page was only a placeholder while the new Olympics microsite was completed, but the saddo label is hardly going to encourage [...]

YouTube Add “Fun” New Feature

24, Jun 2010

If you’re casually browsing YouTube today, and see a small football shaped button, don’t press it. For reasons known only to themselves, YouTube have added a “Vuvuzela Button” to a seemingly random selection of videos. And should you push that button, you’ll be treated to a cacophony of vuvuzela noise. You’ll get the full South [...]

Google Street Map Now Covers 95% of the UK

11, Mar 2010

Despite large amounts of criticism, Google Maps’ Street View service now covers nearly 95% of all the streets in the United Kingdom. A full 360-degree view of your street is available from today. Previously the service was restricted to only major cities. It means that Britain will join Spain, France, Italy and the US, which already have [...]

Metro Newspaper Launches News iPhone App

29, Jan 2010

This week, Metro announced the launch of their news iPhone App, the FirstFound blog reviews this interesting move from the North West UK based newspaper and identifies the broader context of what similar moves mean for the news industry.

Must Have iPhone Internet, Web, Network and SEO Apps

11, Jan 2010

Today I will be discussing some of my favourite, must-have iPhone Apps for Internet and network debugging, SEO and Web ranking tools, telnet and secure shell (SSH) clients and MySQL database access that every self-respecting Web developer, SEO consultant and network engineer should have!

Google Launch the Nexus One

7, Jan 2010

Google have just made a massive leap and launched their own phone, another handset to be dubbed the “iPhone killer”. It is the first time Google has designed and sold its own consumer hardware device. Related posts Real Time Search – The Irony (0) The Secret Art of Writing Text Content That Will Earn You [...]

Social Success in 2010 Part One – Twitter

5, Jan 2010

In 2006, a micro-blogging website crept onto the Internet and allowed users to share 140 character messages. Nobody paid much attention. Then, as the decade drew to a close, millions of people stood up and took notice. Over the last year, Twitter was the fastest growing website on the internet and businesses have been signing up in their thousands.

Optimise for Foursquare – Deliver Visitors Right to Your Shop Door!

8, Dec 2009

Foursquare is a new game played by mobile phone, but how can this social networking tool be used to benefit both your SEO and your sales? If you get involved, you will find it can be turned into a mass marketing tool that will literally lead people to your door!

Real Time Search – The Irony

8, Dec 2009

In a world where we’re now getting information appearing on Google within seconds of it being published, real time search is now old news. However, if you’ve not had the time to take a closer look, it’s well worth thirty seconds of your time. Just head over to the Google Trends page and click on [...]

“To Tweet or Not to Tweet…

13, Nov 2009

Shakespeare probably wouldn’t have regaled us all with tales of his supper, his “EPIC” Call of Duty: Elizebethan Warfare high score, or the fact that Anne Hathaway is “teh hotness”. Why? Because nobody cares. People care about Shakespeare’s plays (his product), less so about his preferred toastie filling (the banal chatter).


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