Love is in the air…
I find that, sometimes, owners of maturing businesses can overly concern themselves with gross margin, overheads, efficiencies, cash-flow and various other accounting measures. I think most owners would agree that this is not why they started-up in business in the first place. Words like passion, belief, focus and innovation are more usually associated with young [...]
End of the “one-size fits all” web
Since the web came of age in the early noughties really bright-spark and innovative companies such as Amazon, Google, Ebay and Apple have been breaking away from the “one-size fits all” approach and creating personalised web assets. These early adopters ploughed their own development furrow, investing hundred’s of millions of dollars into bespoke-built personalisation/profile/testing platforms. [...]
Doing mo’ for charity
The Connected lads are taking part in Movember. Read all about it and donate to a good cause!
Are we bullshitters?
I do hope not but sometimes we do slip into bullshit-speak (or wanky-baby talk as I like to call it). So spare us 5 minutes of your time and tell us which pages are good and which pages are crappy. Some pages too long? Too unreadable? Too serious? Too flippant? Best comments and suggestions before [...]
Rework? We don’t need Rework
I’ve just finished reading Rework as it had been mooted as suggested reading. It sounds trite, but we could have written that book 10 years ago. Amazing! It’s exactly how we have been running the company – almost to the letter, and from day one. Makes you feel quite proud. Related articles Rework by Jason [...]
VITES 3.0 : Alpha release overview
VITES 3.0 was alpha released on the 1st of October 2010, it’s a ground-up re-think of the critically acclaimed and highly successful VITES 2.x web platform. VITES 3.0 brings together all the key requirements for a high-performance web strategy under a single, flexible and very powerful platform. This is the third major release of our [...]
Giving 20%
The world of the internet moves pretty quickly. New ideas and ways of approaching problems on the web are cropping up all the time. We keep a close eye on the things that go on in the world of the web, learn new processes and techniques which can help our clients’ sites work better.
VITES 3.0 Features & benefits
Due for restricted launch at the end of Summer, VITES 3.0 brings a whole new set of features for market-leading organisations to rip into and turn into huge competitive advantage Here is a brief outline of what you can expect in the next release of the worlds first, commercially available, personalisation and customer journey platform [...]
First FREE space for creative minds in Yorkshire
From September 1st, Connected are throwing their doors open to any creative types What? Yup, we’re opening 1,500 sq ft of cool office space to anyone who wants to use it We already have quite a few friends and clients who use our office space and we thought, “to hell with, invite everyone In” Great [...]
This week: beard week
Just for a laugh this week, we’ve decided to have a ‘beard week’, so no shaving from last Friday to see who can come up with the best beard – we’ll have marks for colour, length, style, funniest looking and density. We’ll let you know the outcome! Next week is vinyl week, followed by old [...]
