April 2009
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Smart Technology in action
The Independent is the latest publisher to take our innovative Picture Gallery tool. Designed to work with wire services and image feeds, our tool automatically creates Picture Galleries based around keywords. Images are cropped, resized and published on the fly with updates every 15 minutes.
February 2009
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Yet another new domain extension
The .tel domain names will be available from this afternoon. Apparently they will cost $210 for 3 years and then $20 a year after that. Does anyone else think these new domain extensions are just a scam to make money? The only extension that people really value continues to be .com. I would spend my money getting more of those…
January 2009
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The end of newspapers?
“Read all about it: newspapers are done for” - The Sunday Times (Dec ‘08). Apart from the irony of reading this information in a newspaper, it’s worth asking if this is true? With the fragmentation of media, it’s certainly hard to see how the papers will arrest their circulation decline. But they have - for the most part - some very strong brands and they just need to...
Another Tech Crash?
Is the technology industry headed for a worse downturn than the one that followed the internet crash in 2001? No, back then revenues declined by 6% after rising by 17% the year before. In 2009 most analysts are forecasting modest growth - but growth all the same - of 3%. And this includes all technology spend including hardware - it’s likely that spend on digital services will grow faster.
September 2008
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John D Wood look to WAI for the next generation...
John D Wood have just launched their latest site, www.johndwood.co.uk, which takes a unique and somewhat refreshing approach to estate agent website usability. With over 80% of property enquires starting in the digital realm their approach was to focus on the search, stripping away all the traditional clutter seen on most agents sites - a solution we believe will help the business improve digital...
Real Estate TV goes live
We’ve recently launched a new concept in portals with the Real Estate TV site - www.realestatetv.tv. In a time when every man and his dog appears to be launching or considering a portal concept Real Estate TV have forged ahead with not only a highly innovative solution, utlising the latest Flex technology, but one that has positioned video at the heart of the offering.
In time those agents...
May 2008
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“It’s the mid-1990s for the mobile industry: lots of walled gardens, lots...”
– Quote from CNet.com article describing how the mobile industry is going through its ‘AOL in the 1990s’ phase.
April 2008
7 posts
Novel Idea For Google Maps
While there are a wealth of possible applications for data visualization/location based services, using the technology to write a short story isn’t one that immediately springs to mind. But that’s exactly what publishing giant Penguin is doing as part of its We Tell Stories digital fiction initiative. The 21 Steps by Charles Cumming is a short story that was written for a Google Maps...
March 2008
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“We have very much hit a watershed moment in terms of mobile Internet. We are...”
– The mobile Internet era is about to dawn, according to Google. The search giant has seen a huge increase in mobile device users and claims the best is yet to come…
Flash Lite For Windows Mobile
Microsoft has been busy trumpeting the virtues of Silverlight - its “Flash Killer” plug-in. But today the powers-that-be in Redmond announced the company had signed an agreement with Adobe to license its Flash Lite product for Windows Mobile. This is interesting on a number of levels, namely: 1. This is a sign that Silverlight isn’t ready for prime-time on mobile devices 2. The...
“I want to know if I look up a whole lot of books about some form of cancer that...”
– Interesting BBC interview with Tim Berners-Lee on his concerns surrounding tracking users’ surfing activity.
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3, 2, 1, Ignition.....
Today marks the official launch of the World Archipelago blog and to celebrate the occasion we created a life-sized model of a Norwegian cruise liner out of old business cards, and attempted to smash a bottle of Chateau de Sunny Delight against the side of it. We would have posted a picture but unfortunately the one person with a camera is stuck to the floor in artificially colored orange beverage...