End of Microsoft and the death of Google
Roger McNamee is a pretty interesting character in the digital world and a rare sight in a world filled with 18-year kids on caffeine. Over the years he seems to have got pretty wise to emerging trends and has advised a great many companies successfully. Now in his mid-fifties you might have thought he would [...]
Infographics : A unique view of the Internet
Lots of people have had a go at predicting the future of the Internet and which trends will rise over the next 5 years. The infographic below rather beautifully lays out both the current position and also some guesses at what might happen in 2015. Digital Life: Today & Tomorrow from Neo Labels on Vimeo. [...]
Care online
The healthcare marketplace has traditionally prided itself as being above the commercialism of the high-street, seeing it’s role as a provider of clinical excellence only. This is slowly changing, as national, chain-type, brands strive to break the old GP-referrer cycle and reach-out directly to potential customers and nowhere is this more prevalent than on the [...]
Give HTML5 a big hug
The release of Internet Explorer 9 comes with a wave of relief and panic. Panic because in some development cases, this means we now have four (yes, four) versions of one browser to test website in which I’m not particularly looking forward to doing. The silver lining here is the better implementation of emerging standards [...]
A co-operative, of sorts
GiffGaff (Wiki-entry)has been around now for over year. If you’ve never heard of the name then don’t worry, they spend £0 on marketing, about £50 on branding and £0 on sponsorship. The basic idea is brilliant, take a product or a service that has lots of consumers and a continual or long buying cycle (GiffGaff is [...]
Real world A/B testing
Widely used since the 18th Century, AB testing is now one of the primary sources of web-site improvement but it’s also nice to see the conventional (ycrta: old) world embracing testing so it was interesting to see a US charity magazine (MotherJones) doing exactly that by testing two different covers to it’s February issue. They [...]
Hell YES, of course we do
I recently noted that our favourite software development company 37Signals posted a page up recently titled YES. This, I am reliably told, was borne out of frustration answering YES to the same questions time and time again. Love it. It also neatly acts as a way to explain what you do. So have a crack [...]
Google : Judge, jury and executioner?
Recently Google handed out a heavy penalty to Overstock.com because the retailer was allegedly paying for links from Colleges. Part of Google’s algorithm involves attributing “weight” to incoming links and the higher the quality of links the greater the weight is applied to the recipient site. Supposedly, Google rates colleges and universities as high-quality sources [...]
Don’t take your users’ data for granted
Privacy questions are swirling around the Internet, surrounding Google, Amazon and ISPs like a fog. So much so that the EU’s (much unused) Data Protection Directive is beginning to move front and centre in the fight for privacy. Many people have a level of distrust regarding corporate databases and are concerned that that too much [...]
Eventify.me great idea
Jason Calacanis recently tweeted a great new startup, it’s only in the US – in fact only in LA but I love the idea. On the site you’ll find a range of event locations to rent by the hour (Oooer), evening or day, everything from 500 seat auditoriums to a small backyard ranging in price [...]
