Monthly Archives: March 2006

Design – Step by Step

Browsing through Digg today, I came across a great example of how designers develop a series of pictures to end up with something truly beautiful. If you have ever dabbled with design, you’ll appreciate just how clever this is. Hats … Continue reading

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Search Engine Promotion – Yahoo Changes Index

Yahoo have announced they have made changes to there index last weekend. Why is this important? Search engines don’t actually search the internet in real time, what they do is pre-search websites and build a database to all the pages … Continue reading

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SMS Marketing – Hotxt the new Skype?

Hotxt is launched today. It’s a subscription based text messaging service, which uses the internet to send your messages. Co founder Doug Richard (the American guy, who is on the Dragon’s Den panel), seems to think the service can save … Continue reading

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Search Engine Promotion – Look no further than Google

Three out of every four UK searches are made using Google. That’s the latest statistic, which has been produced, independently, by WebSideStory. These figures, which state that the UK are bigger ‘Googlers’ than the Americans (UK 74.67, USA 55.39%), will … Continue reading

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eMail Marketing Tax? AOL Facing Pressure

AOL’s planned charges for sending emails to their email users is facing pressure from businesses and individuals around the internet. There are many groups now opposing the charges which are due to begin testing later this month (see previous post). … Continue reading

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PR Machine Google Forced to Pass Data Over

Google were ordered by the courts to hand over search data to the US Government. Unlike AOL, MSN and Yahoo, Google had held back from releasing any data to the US Government. They formally rejected demands to comply with the … Continue reading

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Microsoft Motivates

Following my last post, a reader sent this short clip in…. Microsoft Motivates And another….. Developers I’ve heard many motivational  speeches before, but this guy – Microsofts CEO… well take a look. Keep them coming, all good examples will be … Continue reading

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Lesson in Branding

A recent viral email doing the rounds, shows a short video demonstrating Microsofts branding strengths! View the video here and  a news piece about it.

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Web Accessibility Guidelines (PAS 78)

My recent post regarding the accessibility guidelines, has obviously had some impact with the BSI (well i’d like to think it was down to me). For anyone wanting a copy of the guidelines they are now available to order and … Continue reading

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Offensive eMail Marketing?

lastminute.com have admitted that their recent email marketing message was inaproppriate. Inappropriate? That’s an understatement. Their email marketing message, was sent to their subscribers advertsising children’s shows in London’s West End, with two young boys faces and the headline…. “Doing … Continue reading

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