Tag Archive: culture
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 photo week. [...]
That takes the biscuit
Some of the really clever stuff we do here is quite difficult to explain, and technologically, even more difficult. We are _not_ web designers.
Sometimes whilst down the pub, I get asked what I do. Depending who I’m talking to and in what context, it’s sometimes easier – and a bit of fun – to use [...]
The BBC launches new iPlayer in beta
The next version of the BBC iPlayer has been launched in beta, with changes to the user experience, more personalisation, and integration with social networks.
The iPlayer is as popular as ever, enjoying its best month to date in April 2010, with 123m requests for TV and radio programmes.
The homepage now has ’sliding drawers’ which open [...]
An old dog can learn new tricks
My enjoyment of all that’s available with technology – a personal account.
The very first record I ever bought was Come On by The Rolling Stones. It was 1963 & I had to stand in a queue to take my turn to sit in the booth at Valences on the Headrow, Leeds, headphones on, buzzing with [...]
Talk to the Bear
Recently we introduced hot desking in our office, I traded my desk, my phone, my calculator and my coaster for an entire office worth of hot desking – I’m sat in an armchair as I write this.
One of the benefits this brings is the ability to share problems and ideas with those you wouldn’t usually. [...]
“About us”: the good, the bad and the missing
About us pages come in 3 flavours:
1. Corporate babble – meaningless waffle about “management teams”, “strategic partnerships”, “proactive solutions”. Sometimes “stakeholders” creep in as well. If you hide the company name then these pages would fit any organisation from NASA down to Rotherham Pet Supplies Ltd.
If you are a me-too company with a me-too website [...]
In praise of Apple products “Even the packaging is beautifully designed”
Hi, I joined the team at Connected in February 2008 & I still learn something new every day.
I stepped into Connected’s lair of internet gurus & web developers to find a sprawling forest of PC towers, monitors, cables & dull black, dusty keyboards.
I clutched my “personal” Apple Macbook Pro very firmly in my hand on [...]
Client-side analytics. Problem No: 222
It appears that the old chestnut of “privacy” and “data protection” might put a bloody great hole in the “Client-side analytics” ship. Specifically our old friend Google Analytics has been declared illegal in Germany.
“So what”, I here you cry, “we’re not in Germany”. But we are, sort of, in the Federated European States of Brussels [...]
My first year @ Connected
Smart people, thinking-caps on, and the best tools. But, as they say, “Don’t watch the tool, watch the hand that wields it.”
Corporate responsibility
Connected are one of the world’s leading providers of web-personalisation platforms and as an employer and significant business partner we are committed to taking our corporate responsibilities very seriously indeed…
