Since the explosion of the personal computer in the 1980s, the PC has evolved from being a business tool to an integral part of our daily lives. From work to entertainment, education to communication, the personal computer and its offshoots, such as mobile devices, have revolutionised how we live and work. When some forty years […]
Carbon neutral for over a decade, carbon negative since 2020. Connected is carbon negative, that is we store away or sequester more carbon than we use. And by 2030, we will have offset our total emissions since we founded in 1996. Our carbon initiatives are broadly broken into four categories: Lower carbon density: Use less […]
Connected understand and actively embrace the opportunities that AI can offer in terms of labour-saving, insight, data-processing, economic growth, nature of work, and invention. We are also very aware of the risks it poses. We are fully committed, where appropriate, to the adoption of non-prejudicial systems – specifically around computer vision and natural language processing […]
The world’s most popular digital platform It might be the world’s most used Internet platform, but why and how should your organisation use WordPress? 1. WordPress is a content management system (CMS) that is free and open source. 2. WordPress is used by millions of people around the world, including many large organizations, such as […]
Twitter should pivot away from a grimy dependence on advertisers and advertising. Very few of us like advertising, especially the stuff that pretends to know things about us. The slimy feeling you get as you scroll through and see crummy quasi-personalised ads trying to sell you stuff you don’t need or really want. You know […]
Important dates for this holiday period It’s that time of year again. The long hot summer is a distant memory, nights are closing in, and the early Xmas adverts are already on the telly. Due to the way the working week falls, it’s an early close for us this year and lasts 11 working days. […]
After holding our support prices since 2017, it is now time to revise the pricing due to increasing costs and squeezed margins. The price rise is a modest 10%, taking the standard Peerless Service product to £875. This is effective August 1st 2022 for new clients and January 2023 for existing contracts. Some existing support […]
Did you know that we are the first and only national WordPress agency to openly publish our rate card? Transparency is baked-in to our culture. Updated Pricing It was 2017 when we last raised our prices, so from August 2022 for new clients and January 2023 for existing clients, our rates are: WordPress support from […]
Its been a few years since we joined in with the “predictions” silly season, but here goes. Previous efforts, such as 2011, saw us predict the rise (but not fall) tablet computing, the wildly desperate end of Google’s search dominance. Cloud computing and subscription models fared better. 2014 went slightly better with the rise of […]
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TL;DR – Relax, it doesn’t affect what we do, but be aware. There is lots of MSM comment about how destructive a recently discovered security flaw that exists “almost everywhere”. You’ll be pleased to hear that after further investigation this security vulnerability does NOT affect any of the services we supply to clients. This applies […]
Updated 2021-11-29, first published 2020-03-05. WINTER UPDATE NOT QUITE THERE Back in early Summer, we stated that we were almost there. Sadly, that seems not to be the case as the world seemed to settle down to rolling outbreaks of the Delta variant and getting on with the job of mass vaccination. However, vaccine longevity […]
We all know that social media is not healthy. Some of us might have seen the dangers of addiction, and others still the under-current of mental health issues that swirls around the whole shock/influencer/peer pressure/fake-existence/information disorder dramas that plays out 25×7. Many folks put this down to poor self-control, an addictive personality, or simply deny […]
Important dates for this holiday period It’s that time of year again. The clock has gone back and the mercury is hovering just above zero. Bonfire night is upon us, the early Xmas adverts are on the telly … and after that, it’s 7 weeks until Christmas. As per usual, we will be officially closed […]
In this great politico-media fest that is #COP26, it’s useful to highlight our commitment to eradicating negative traces that our business might have left on Spaceship Earth over the last quarter of a century. From our very early days in the 90s we trod lightly, embracing home working, cloud-services, and e-commerce. By 2006, we were […]
If you believe in the boom-bubble-decline cycle of tech innovation, then the last few years have been mesmerizing. To give some background, our company was founded a handful of years before that momentous Dot-Com bubble moment in early 2000 that eventually saw three-quarters of the value of the Nasdaq wiped out, along with thousands of […]
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Welcome to the birth of the Metaverse. Or at least it’s conception. The goal of a unified web is not new, but has arguably taken a quite sinister turm. Our CEO, Martin Dower, recently wrote about it and here is a short extract Apps are dead, as is desktop computing, and real life has seemingly […]
For many, working at home in a toxic culture is the new norm. Sadly, many employers have made a real mess of the #WFH opportunity that the pandemic has offered us. Rather than embrace the whole ethos of location and time-independent working, many employers have made the working week longer and more stressful. A recent […]
But that, we don’t mean the freedom that the internet offers, but the provision of free services is coming to an abrupt end. Since the early noughties, we’ve all become accustomed to using free services on the web. Free email, free search, free directories, free music, free video, the list goes on and on. And […]
Lockdown forced a new world on us. Some good and some bad, so lets take a closer look. The price of COVID has been high and continues across much of the world, but in the UK we’re quite fortunate to be coming out the other side. As the UK opens up, what are we hoping […]
March the 11th 1989, write that down as its the day the Internet was born. 32 years old and still going strong. Ok, the pervasive advertising is becoming a real bore, social-media platforms are the sewers, and privacy has all but gone as netizens are bought and sold like cattle. But, apart from that, The […]
