I do hope not but sometimes we do slip into bullshit-speak (or wanky-baby talk as I like to call it). So spare us 5 minutes of your time and tell us which pages are good and which pages are crappy. Some pages too long? Too unreadable? Too serious? Too flippant? Best comments and suggestions before […]
Well, I have to say I’m pretty impressed with the new baby. An eleven inch baby Mac Air arrived yesterday and the initial thoughts are, well, feck me it’s small, light and ultra-sexy (is that allowed?). In fact it’s a good deal smaller than I thought it would be and it actually fits (end-on) into […]
Apple are now shipping the new, netbook-sized, replacement for the Mac Air and ignoring the hyperbole around “version updates” and “consumer choice” it seems that the Mac Air will ship without Adobe’s Flash system. For years most manufacturers have shipped Flash as standard on PCs and Laptops, albeit usually an out of date version. So […]
I recently began my seventh year at Connected. In that time I’ve worked on more projects I can remember, many of them redesigns of existing websites. I love building a new site from scratch, it allows me to create a structure that makes sense to us and also gives me the chance to flex my […]
In recent news from our friends in Brussels it seems that the war on privacy piracy is stepping up a gear or three and now the UK will be in the European courts after failing to respond to infringement charges last year. The backlash from Brussels was brought about after a campaign of complaints by […]
£200 million button Most web marketers know the story of how Amazon changed their check-out process; the wording on the button was changed from “Register” to “Continue” and a simple message was added (“You do not need to create an account to make purchases on our site. Simply click Continue to proceed to checkout. To […]
PRODUCT DISCONTINUED, superceded by VNX VITES 3.0 was alpha released on the 1st of October 2010, it’s a ground-up re-think of the critically acclaimed and highly successful VITES 2.x web platform. VITES 3.0 brings together all the key requirements for a high-performance web strategy under a single, flexible and very powerful platform. This is the […]
Less really is more Attention span online is really short Keep it simple stupid One fact beats a thousand opinions Useful Information The percentage split of time spent reading/browsing versus doing stuff is dropping as consumers are now comfortable buying, organising and completing transactions online. This means the traditional drive to generate marketing-led content has […]
The world of the internet moves pretty quickly. New ideas and ways of approaching problems on the web are cropping up all the time. We keep a close eye on the things that go on in the world of the web, learn new processes and techniques which can help our clients’ sites work better. […]
We are moving ever more to a world dominated by pure information and the traditional role of brands is having to evolve, whilst I’m not suggesting that the world of information packs, leaflets and brochures is dead what we are starting to find is that they play a lesser role in the minds of consumers. […]
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For years, Twitter users have been split between those who predominantly tweet directly through the website and those who choose to use third party applications. As I currently sit amongst the latter group opting to use Tweetie on Mac and Twitter (formally part of the Tweetie app family) on the iPhone, I can only give my opinion on why people choose to do shy away from the web interface. […]
We are starting to see the beginnings of intelligent browsers that are centred around the needs of people and not companies. Apple have released Safari 5.0 and it has a really neat [READER] button at the end of the address bar that quite cleverly turns a advert-loaded web page into a lovely, clean browsing experience. […]
Radical? Not really, but communication is changing and that does mean the use of email as the defacto communication medium is coming to an end. Ask anyone under the age of 21 how they communicate and they’ll mention Text, Facebook and MSN but hardly ever mention email. To the Generation Y population email is just […]
It’s great to see the retailer River Island eventually give up the Flash ghost – their new site is hardly ground-breaking and just looks very “me-too” but critically they’ve decided it’s time to bow to usability pressure and get rid of the flash monstrosity they’ve been using for the last few years. Another nail in […]
Nearly 19 million households now have internet access, 11% up on 2008 with 76% of adults now having access. It is interesting to note that still over 10m have still never accessed the web (Europe has now 420m internet users). The UK (almost) tops the European table of usage with an average of 29hrs per […]
The somewhat quiet and reserved founder of Facebook is going to be the central character in a new Hollywood film “The Social Network” due for release in a couple of weeks. Most people outside of the webby world won’t have heard of Zuck before so it’s likely to be a bit of a shock for […]
You cannot help to notice that privacy is fast becoming one of the hottest subjects in town. Driven, in part, by the social networking revolution every Tom, Dick and Harry are throwing great new applications at us such as Facebook, Gowalla, Google Me (?) with the aim of capturing a large slice of our social […]
A couple of months back Google raised the search game with the introduction of Caffeine and today, continuing with the coffee theme, launched Instant. Founder, Sergey Brin said, yesterday, that he wants Google to be the “third half of your brain”. Yuk. Most of the world that simply uses Google won’t really feel the effects […]
After Kevin Rose (founder of Digg) dropped the rumour bomb in late June of the arrival on the scene of Google Me the webby world has been beside itself with excitement’ “what will it be like”, “will I be able to move easily from Facebook”, “what will Zuckerberg say”, etc. The ground does seem to […]
The Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) has announced an extension of the Advertising Standards Agency’s (ASA) remit to include digital advertising from March 2011. This is currently receiving a mixed reaction and is not helped by the ASA’s admission that the extension of it’s remit is going to pose quite serious operational challenges. Thankfully they […]
