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 Online Gamers battle a real enemy – AIDS. And they’re winning.September 20, 2011 – 7:29 am Online gamers have cracked a problem that scientists have struggled with for decades. They’ve helped identify the structure of a key protein in the AIDS virus, and so brought a cure for aids one step closer. read more » Happy 55th Birthday to the Hard DiskSeptember 20, 2011 – 7:25 am The Hard Disk is 55 years old ! IBM released the first commercial disk in September 1955. It held 5Mb, and cost $38,400 per year to lease. I guess if cars had improved as much as disks a Rolls Royce would now cost £50 and do one million miles per gallon. Scented Candles OnlineSeptember 2, 2011 – 10:37 am We’ve just put live a new site for scented candle manufacturer Stoneglow Candles. They have a beautiful product range and excellent photos of those products, so the site highlights the images and makes it easy and engaging for visitors to interact with them. read more » UK PLC Likes Social MediaJuly 18, 2011 – 1:38 pm Consultancy The Group monitor social media usage by FTSE 100 companies. The latest survey shows 56 of the 100 use Twitter and 38 of the 100 use Facebook. Usage is growing quickly : up 25% and 50% respectively in the last 6 months. 34 have no social media presence at all, but that figure has dropped from 46 six months ago. read more » One visitor in every 40 uses iPhone or iPad.July 15, 2011 – 2:40 pm One in every 40 of the visitors to your web site uses and Apple mobile device, according to NetMarketShare. Does your site work for them? read more » Make Your Phone Your WalletMay 27, 2011 – 7:54 am In the past few thousand years since we started using money the kind of money we use has changed just three times—from metal, to paper, then plastic cards. Google think we are brink of the next big shift. They’ve released a phone app, Google Wallet, that lets your phone replace your cards. Eventually your loyalty cards, gift cards, receipts, boarding passes, tickets, even your keys will be seamlessly synced to your Google Wallet. It manages offers and discounts too : Every offer and loyalty point will be redeemed automatically with a single tap via NFC. Full story here Print me a guitar !February 23, 2011 – 8:34 am There was a fascinating article in the Economist a couple of weeks ago called “print me a Stradivarius”, about the impact of 3d printing : how it reverses the economies of scale that powered the industrial revolution, because creating one-offs is as cheap as manufacturing on a production line. SEO Tip : Listen to Matt CuttsJanuary 27, 2011 – 3:39 pm There’s lots and lots of Search Engine experts around. The one to follow is Matt Cutts. He is more authoritative than all the others because he works for Google. read more » New regulations for web content from 1 MarchJanuary 25, 2011 – 9:28 am The Advertising Standards Authority remit is being extended to cover marketing on websites from 1 March 2011. This covers a company’s own web site, and also third-party web space under the company’s control, such as Facebook and Twitter. read more » SEO tip : Sitemaps Tell Google What’s Important On Your SiteJanuary 6, 2011 – 10:50 am Google reads every word of every page of your site, and uses all of that information to decide what the site as a whole is about. Some pages are more important than others for this. Your home page is the most important, the Contact page less so. The Terms & Conditions and Privacy pages aren’t important at all. Sitemaps let you tell Google this. |
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