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 […]
Social media is becoming a liability? Discuss. Most observers agree that the influence of social media and the “power” of influencers have gotten way out of control. In just a decade, social-influence has permeated every corner of our lives. Some of that influence has been positive; including climate awareness, and empowered communities. But a lot […]
The rise and fall of the pandemic, the creation of a new paradigm and how society jumped forward 15 years in just a few months. Looking back to February and early March, no one really saw how the future of “the outbreak in Wuhan” would unfold. What transpired was the greatest threat to public health […]
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Important dates for this holiday period It’s time to chill and try to spend quality time with friends and family (whilst adhering to COVID-19 government policy). As per usual, we will be officially closed over the extended holiday period, from late on Friday, 18th of Dec thru to the Monday, 4th of Jan. Underlying primary […]
COVID has made for a challenging year, but a lot of good has come out of it. Forcing many of us into a socially-distanced, work-from-home mode has accelerated what, for many, was inevitable in working-practices. The benefits of doing your job from home are now been realised by up to half of the population, and […]
A changing world has changed how we think about urban space And it’s not the virus that has caused this, but the indirect secondary effects of home-based working and online retail that has changed how we see, and what we need from urban areas. Over the centuries we’ve seen pandemics wipe out population centres, but […]
…Is my stock answer when folks ask me how web-sites work! The digital world shares much in common with the relatively ancient world of watch craft so it acts as a great metaphor when explaining how the digital world is designed and engineered. The beauty that is the watch metaphor The elegance of a good […]
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As the first wave of the pandemic subsides we now see a new normal starting to be forged. Last year you might have sniggered at folks on the tube wearing masks, or pitied those that worked from home. The new normal is starting to be, erm, normal. And that means avoiding crowds, more specifically, unnecessary […]
The new normal may not be virtual, but it’s certainly a lot less corporeal. The world has been rocked off its axis this year due to Coronavirus snd the social upheaval is huge, and life-changing for many. Millions of people have been forced to work from home, relying on digital links and services to do […]
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Just about seven weeks since the country went into lockdown, and three months after the first reported deaths in the UK and it looks like we finally have the end in sight. It’s been a terrible time for the country: over 30,000 dead, 6m folks off work, families ripped apart, and households pushed to breaking […]
As the COVID-19 outbreak v1.0 passes the peak, the light at the end of the tunnel is now clearly visible. Yes, it is still a month or two before we’re even beginning to get a sense of what this might be. But it is different; the world is different. The light at the end of […]
As the CV19 outbreak really starts to take hold we’re seeing some clients scrap their digital advertising plans. I think this is crazy and short-sighted. Just because a business is not able to function in its entirety, there is no reason it can’t keep ticking over to maintain what are essential services. I once described […]
Five years ago we wrote about how the cloud had changed our business, from the early cloud days in 2008 of tentatively moving project management and then email onto the cloud. Well, a decade on and we’ve moved on, too. Everything we use, from ticket management to resource control, in-house communication to accounting is all […]
The tension between needs and wants is often what fires the ambition in us all. Sadly we listen to the voice in our head that says “more”, even when we know that is rarely the right answer. Giving into needless drive is the fastest way to create an unhealthy life/work environment and balance – In […]
Back at the dawn of this century, and years before the iPhone ruined everything, the Blackberry was king of the hill. It was the device that democratised mobile email and business communications. In fact, it unwittingly set the ground-work for the “always on” existence that plagues us today. It’s vice-like grip on email and BBM, […]
The computing world is changing. It’s no longer about unlimited computing power and bandwidth – both are in increasingly short supply due to the end of Moore’s law and the increasing carbon cost of processing our lives. Bill Gates famously wrote the entire Basic compiler in 16k because resources were tight, he had to. Today, […]
I’ve not heard that said round these parts in over a decade, probably even this century. So here goes … Microsoft are committed to be “net carbon positive” over it’s lifetime. So they’re going back to when they were founded in 1975, work out their total CO2 emissions and then arrange, through afforestation probably, to […]
It’s not that the platform is bad per se. In fact, WordPress is pretty much the best web framework and platform today. WordPress drives over a third of the world’s web-sites, almost two-thirds of the CMS market space and most of the top companies use WordPress somewhere in their portfolio. It’s open-source, extensible, well-supported, easy […]
