As the year draws to an end and I retreat home to wrap presents and eat mince pies, I find myself wondering if 2008 will go down as the year in which Google’s fall from grace began.
Don’t get me wrong - there’s no way I’m forecasting doom for Google. It’s not Woolworths. But a large [...]
In this post, I’m going to try to outline a convergence between two separate trains of thoughts. It might get messy, so bear with me.
Train one (think of this as the Edgware branch of the Northern Line) is search engine optimisation.
One of the areas I’ve been working in a lot recently is search engine optimisation. [...]
Even though I’ve been known to use the phrase “Web 2.0″ from time to time, I’ve never really liked the idea very much. It’s useful shorthand for when you’re talking to anyone whose knowledge about the internet is defined largely by current trends and ‘hypes’, but really, what’s ever been new about the idea of [...]
Online intelligence service Hitwise released a report last week claiming that UK internet usage patterns were changing in response to the current economic situation. The full press release is here.
Hitwise gathers its data by looking at the traffic logs of its clients’ websites, which number around 1,500. These websites are divided up into a range [...]
I’m currently carrying out some research into open-source e-commerce platforms. The research is at a pretty early stage and I’m still putting together the list of packages that we’ll then go on to assess in detail.
While putting this short-list together I’m visiting quite a lot of ’showcase’ sites for each package on my long-list. And [...]
Since October 2007 I’ve been working on a redesign project for Image Source, a stock photo provider not unlike Getty Images or Corbis. The site went live last night.
My company was initially hired to help flesh out the information architecture and design concepts. The central aim of the project was to build something that [...]
My friend Lindsey sent me this link earlier on today. It’s a video exploring a future user experience concept, developed by Adaptive Path for Mozilla Labs.
Jill looks at the New York Times website
In the video Jill, the principal user, makes use of a number of futuristic interface devices to:
Interact with a friend while browsing
Extract and [...]
I posted recently about Tweets on the bus, a little site that aggregates all Twitter posts containing the phrase “on the bus”.
Since that post, I’ve been following the “on the bus” posts using Google Reader. Every now and again there’s one that makes me laugh. Here’s a digest of my favourite “on the bus” tweets [...]
Yesterday I went along to the Wealth of Networks conference at Imperial College. I was only able to attend the morning sessions, but it was a valuable chance to hear the thoughts of various individuals with diverse backgrounds but a shared understanding of the power of networks (in the broader sense of the word).
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After my previous post on not “getting” Twitter, I’ve spent a fair bit of time getting to grips with it and have been sucked in to a considerable extent.
I’ll post more about my road-to-Damascus Twitter conversion in the next couple of days, but in the meantime I’d refer any interested readers to this video, “Twitter [...]