Archive for April, 2008
Yahoo are Monkeying around with their search engine
Saturday, April 26th, 2008There’s some really interesting stuff going on over at Yahoo. They’ve announced a complete rewiring of the Yahoo plethora of sites in a bid to offer end users a single place to manage all things Yahoo related.
They claim not to be building a new social network but are focusing on building social into everything they […]
Microsoft Song of Praise: “Our Ecosystem Rocks”
Thursday, April 17th, 2008Just a few days ago I remembered an episode from “Only Fools and Horses” about Batman and Robin. And now all of us here have been glued to the screen, watching a spoof Bruce Springsteen video to the song praising Microsoft Vista SP1 (and there’s a spoof version of a superhero, as well). If you […]
Tudor Fruit Musings and The Tree of the Blogosphere
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008When I was looking at this lovely picture in a Search Engine Land article (drawn by Elliance) I noticed that an image of a ripe apple stood for “fresh content” and an image of a bird-pecked apple - for “user comments”. Both types of apples can be found on the Tree of the Blogosphere (see […]
We are feeling the Google Love again
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 Google dumped us recently, pulled out our heart, spat into the open wound and walked off into the sunset without so much as leaving us a Dear John.We sat and sulked for the first couple of days blaming everything and everyone, life is so unfair, we didn’t deserve that, […]
How Does Your Cell Phone Smell?
Monday, April 14th, 2008Jim Neath @ Virtuaffinity was somewhat disappointed to learn that in Japan they have invented the way to send a fragrance from your cell phone. NTT Communications proclaims that fragrance is the next big thing in telecommunications. The New York Times review, When Roses Won’t Do, E-Mail a Fragrance, describes it, as follows:
“users will be […]
Account Win for PushON: Undiscovered Alps. Activity and Family Adventure Holidays in the French Alps.
Friday, April 11th, 2008Are you a fan of activity holidays? I did my fair share of skiing and snowshoeing in the country renowned for its heaps of snow in winter (Russia, that is), although I never did either snowboarding or cross-country skiing. I also adore dogs and sledging, so “husky dog sledging” sounds like a perfect adventure. I […]
Best Use Of Search Marketing
Friday, April 11th, 2008We’re delighted to be shortlisted for an Award at the 2008 Big Chips.
The Big Chips Awards are the most prestigious digital awards outside of London. They are run by Manchester Digital; the independent non-profit association for digital and new media in the area, and the awards are judged by industry experts.
We’ve been shortlisted for our […]
Blogging For Business Seminar Manchester
Thursday, April 10th, 2008We’ll be attending the Blogging For Business seminar tomorrow morning at MDDA. If anyone spots us there please do say hello.
Obviously we blog for our own business and encourage all our clients to blog for their businesses to, so we’ll be hoping to learn something new at the seminar.
I’m particularly looking forward to Mark Rogers […]
Gaming Google with Sprocket X
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008I saw very interesting and effective demonstration of gaming Google using a multi layered implementation of Sprocket X. Basically a Sprocket takes data from multiple sources such as Wikipedia, chews it up and spits something out that is actually meaningful and readable. It’s the readability that is the key and differentiates from other Spammy techniques. […]