Jeffrey Zeldman has written an excellent article over at A List Apart concerning how we perceive web design as a discipline. It’s an easy mistake to think of web design as an extension of graphic design, many designers have made the move directly from designing for print to online designs. Those of us with some [...]
Our first seminar took place at Tiger Tiger, in Manchester, and lasted half a day. The three speakers were Bill Daring of KMP, Mark Rogers from Market Sentinel, and Fergus Burns, founder of nooked. The combination of agency and industry speakers made for an inspiring seminar, which informed the attendees about everything from a beginners [...]
So Google’s purchase of Jaiku has happened and I am delighted. It is a bit of the VHS versus Betamax battle – but where the better format wins! Jaiku is a much more accomplished, micro-blogging tool. It offers post comments/threads, groups, post/comment rss feed, external feed importing, embedable post icons, groups and fantastic mobile functionality [...]
We all have Facebook friends we like and Facebook friends we befriend because we were young and naïve and thought it was cool to connect with these people. But what happens when these people keep posting rubbish and, actually, we realise there was a reason we lost touch with them years ago… Facebook has always [...]
On November 6th, Facebook dropped more great news for advertisers keen to find ways to monetise the fastest growing social network in the world. They are: Facebook Social Ads Facebook Beacon Facebook Platform Facebook Pages Facebook Insights Facebook Polls I will be covering some of these in more detail shortly, but one of the most [...]
