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 [...]
I’ve Started So I’ll Finish… I Promise
So week 1 of my first project and the pressure is on. Proper on. As in ‘ring spasm-ingly on’. But thats cool, I can handle that. Gulp. How the hell can you ‘Project Manage’ a vague idea into a product? How do you start?… Well here is the thought process we (I got some help [...]
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 [...]
Two screens better than one
A recent study by Deloitte in the US suggested that nearly half of the adult population had surfed t’internet at the same time as watching TV. Ok, no real shock there except that as we see the growth in tablets, ultra-portable lightweight devices with 20hr battery life can we expect to see this becoming the [...]
Need for speed
Since Google announced in 2010 it was going to take into account page load speed in it’s search engine algorithm the web world seems to have gone speed-crazy. It’s a good thing, I remember an A/B test we did back in 2006 showing a 50% improvement by using a 30k Landing Page rather than 150k. This [...]
Google Analytics is not for marketers
Back in 2005 Google acquired a great little analytics company, Urchin and shortly afterwards shook up the web analysis world by offering the previously chargeable product for free. It’s progress over the last 5 years has been one of Google’s great success stories and around half of the respectable commercial sites in the world use [...]
Killing the conversation
Like many I’ve been using Facebook for a number of years. In that time it’s gone through various versions and iterations as most site invariably do and no matter how much I use the site, some things continue to bother me and my mind just won’t let go. For a long time I just put [...]
A stand against perfection
We’re now in the full swing of 2011 and the new year is unfortunately still carrying lots of baggage from the last decade. This baggage consists of old ideas, principles and standards which are still hanging around causing headaches for developers and more importantly, costing money to clients. The web is a fast moving industry [...]
