Last year when we were all rocked by recession I vividly remember coming across one article. It stated that sex was “the most popular free pastime” in the UK. The YouGov survey conducted over the Internet between 21 and 23 … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: July 2009
How Wide is the World Wide Web? Google Services Are Not Available Worldwide
Although Google by no means make up the whole of search, it constitutes a large part of it and plans to stay there. Recently we have seen Google making steps towards aggregating all of the content published on the web … Continue reading
Zappazon: “Zappos and Amazon Sitting in a Tree”
The deal is expected to close this autumn: Amazon, world’s largest online retailer, is buying Zappos for $927.9 mln, mostly in stock. Zappos management team and employees are said to remain intact. Both companies are said to suit each other … Continue reading
Rendeznew: Meeting People Made Easier?
A Hollywood classic, Meet Me in St Louis, is set at the time when it was difficult to sustain a long-distance relationship. It would be hard to commute between St Louis and New York in 1904. There was no Internet … Continue reading
Can Creativity Beat Google?
Dean Rieck has written a blog post at Copyblogger, enlisting 11 traits of highly creative people. Among them are: will CHALLENGE ASSUMPTIONS and ask hard questions to discover what is real; are MOTIVATED BY A TASK rather than by external … Continue reading
Hosting a Webinar: Do Speakers Realise That Their Audience Is International?
One of the things I personally love about the Internet, and Social Media in particular, is that it has the global reach. Be it blogging, podcasting, online video or photography, you may be thinking that you are only producing the … Continue reading
We Have Moved! Please Note the Change of Address
Last Friday has seen a bit of a havoc in our headquarters as we moved from Pall Mall Court in Manchester city centre to Maclaren House in Old Trafford. For some of our colleagues, this is a familiar territory; for … Continue reading
Your Ring, Your Pledge: iPhone Increases Mobile Web Usage… and Encourages Celibacy
Since its arrival into the UK last year, iPhone has been making many a wave. At one point Twitter community were gleefully sharing the joys of using Audioboo, the iPhone blogging app. Artists are using various iPhone apps to produce … Continue reading
The UK Parliament Uses Social Media and Viral Content to Celebrate the Big Ben’s 150th Anniversary
One of the most famous British landmarks – the Big Ben – is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year. Over the years the Clock Tower, on its own and together with the Houses of Parliament, has been commemorated in paintings, … Continue reading
Mixing Marketing with Digital
Even if the title of the post seems startling, the contents of this mammoth presentation highlights the conundrum in which we sometimes find ourselves today. Whereas to some “Digital Marketing” means cultivating a virgin land, for others this is an … Continue reading
