August 2008

Are search and location based services going places?

Location and geolocation technologies might sound boring to the novice, but they're fuelling a raft of bold new web and mobile services with a social and locative flavour that are setting media and technology trendwatchers alight with excitement.

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29 August 2008 by Deirdre Molloy

Digital Mission to NYC in map form

The preparations for Digital Mission to New York continue apace. There'll be lots of handy information when the Digital Mission companies get to New York, but to help with planning, the lovely Aoife has been working her magic with Google Maps. The map below shows the main venues (so far).

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28 August 2008 by Sam Michel

Captcha No More

Since I wrote about my sweary run-in with Captchas - those squiggly things at the bottom of forms that can only easily be read after too much coffee/beer - a week or so ago, I've been paying more attention to this technology.

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28 August 2008 by Sam Michel

The Guardian buys Madeleine McCann


Newspapers competing for audiences are not dissimilar to kids in a sandpit as they jostle for that top search engine ranking. The seach engine is king these days and online content is often written for SEO bots instead of human eyes. In fact this boring headline is written for Google.

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27 August 2008 by Suzanne Morrow

Moving offices...and involving everyone

Creating a great environment to work in may not be viewed as an important factor to engage your talent but its been one of my many priorities over the past year during our office move (in addition to the day job of course). 

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26 August 2008 by Nicky Swain

Flash joins the search party as Adobe embraces SEO


Adobe is creating programs that will make their applications search engine optimised and they’re providing their optimised Adobe Flash Player technology to Google and Yahoo to enhance search engine indexing of the Flash file format (SWF).

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26 August 2008 by Suzanne Morrow

Mobile content business enters the Dragons Den

For those Dragon's Den fans out there, tune into BBC2 at 9pm this Monday 25th August (or later on iPlayer) to see Romi Parmar of the 3G Dating Agency – and a member of Chinwag’s uk-wirelessmarketing email discussion list - pitch his business to the panel of investors.

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22 August 2008 by Suzanne Morrow

Your turn to shine: Channel 4 leads cross-discipline talent search

4Talent are scouring the country for the UK’s most innovative and ground-breaking talent for the 4Talent Awards 2008.

Those entering will be judged by industry insiders who, if you’ve got what it takes, could be your commissioning editors of the future.

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19 August 2008 by Suzanne Morrow