Empire Avenue Social Stock Exchange
TweetI’ve been playing Empire Avenue for about 6 months, and it’s probably the main reason why I’ve become much more prolific at blogging, Tweeting, and generally getting more active within social...
View Article$75 Trillion … WTF
TweetThanks to the increase in high quality streaming services like Spotify, BlinkBox, and LoveFilm, file sharing looks like it might have started to decline recently, however that hasn’t stopped the...
View ArticleOnline Brand Protection
TweetThe rapid growth in social media and the ability for users to post content to the web has grown exponentially in the last few years to the point where roughly 40% of the population are now active...
View ArticlePatent Trolls, Greed and Naivete : It’s Legal Season
TweetYou can always be certain that when talk turns to money, particularly large amounts of money, that interest will be piqued, and ordinarily reasonable people will start to look at where their share...
View Article5 reasons why your Social Media Campaign is Shit
TweetHey there hipster, the chances are that if you’re reading this, you’ve got some kind of internet thing going on, and you’re spending a lot of time reaching out to users and trying to get them to...
View ArticleAbiding Themes 8 / Increasing Website Speed
TweetBack in March when it was announced that Larry Page would be taking the reigns at Google as CEO there was an interesting profile about him in Wired Magazine that had a lot of focus on his...
View ArticleSAScon 2011 / Social Commerce
TweetIf there was a single theme to SASCon 2011, it was the convergence of different digital disciplines. How web development skills can be leveraged for SEO, how paid and natural search can work...
View Articlenews and privacy
TweetA while ago, I posted about the importance of privacy, and controlling how your personal information is being shared and used by the services that you engage with on line. Over the past few...
View ArticleWhy Fake Reviews are a Bad Idea
TweetBehavioural research is big business. Every year, millions of pounds are invested in customer research ahead of product launches. Focus groups, customer panels, beta tests are all used, and all...
View ArticleConversion Friendly Web Design
TweetThere was an interesting story on The Independent today that cited a study about how badly designed websites have cost businesses around £500 million in sales over the past 3 years. At first...
View ArticleOrange Customer Services: Unhelpful, Rude, Arrogant
TweetOrange Customer Services are unhelpful, truculent, dishonest robots with no concept of customer care. They’re not my favourite people at the moment. In addition to the above, I’ve found them...
View ArticleWhat I learned from running a million metres in 2017
I’m not usually one for life changing New Year resolutions. There are a few reasons for this, but the overriding one is that I can’t be bothered with them. I’m not immune to self-improvement, but the...
View ArticleLet’s Talk About Engagement
Ernest Hemingway is not for everyone. It is hard work to read his novels. Not because of the language used, but because of the language not used. The books are deceptively short, and the style is...
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