Category Archives: Web/Tech

Community sites may be on the rise

We created Biofind from a website I found on the web called the “Biotech Rumor Mill”. It was run by a British postgrad student who was working at Boston University, and so I went over to the US and brought it back. That was in 1997, and the site has been well used by the [...]

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Google is everywhere

Is it me or is Google taking over the World! I am sure there are many software companies out there wondering what Google is going to develop or buy next and offer for free* as part of Google Pack. Google Analytics nee Urchin Analytics, previously attainable by applying on line and then waiting a long [...]

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Email marketing gets creative and strategic

The UK market for email marketing platforms and services was worth £148m in 2005 and will grow by 20% to an estimated value of £178m by the end of 2006. For comparison sake, the UK market for web analytics was expected to grow to £46m by the end of 2005 says econsultancy. So it is [...]

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Embedded video in emails (2)

Since last week we have decided that the video is sent either as a video codec file or as flash object tag linking to the flash video communication server. Given the short length of the video and our clients expectations, we have recommended that the email will be produced using a video codec file rather [...]

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Accessibility – Part 1

Every so often I intend to post an entry like this, a round up of news and thoughts on a particular subject. This time I will be talking about Accessibility. For part 1 of this article I will start with an overview of Accessibility, the law and how it impacts the web. The encyclopaediadefinition: Accessibility [...]

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