Future
Internet experts invent the past
Website content is fundamental to your website success. But content has always been vital to every business – it is not a new idea.
23rd May 2012
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Facebook Optimizes Ordinary Links
All People Require Informative Links which explains the Facebook Optimized Ordinary Link system revealed today exclusively on this site.
1st April 2012
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Is Google having a panic attack…?
Google is a fine company – let’s get that straight at the beginning. They provide you and me with plenty of useful services. Even if you only use their search engine, can you imagine life without? We all depend on Google to a smaller or larger extent. And as a
4th November 2011
Future
Online businesses can learn from Woman’s Weekly
This week, Woman’s Weekly magazine is 100 years old. Happy Birthday, old gal. And in spite of the magazine market exploding since the introduction of the 1d (one old penny) magazine, it remains the best performing magazine in the sector, with sales slightly up in a market that has seen
3rd November 2011
Future
Did Prince Charles or the Pope invent Twitter?
His Royal Highness Prince Charles was responsible for a considerable change in the conversation in Washington, DC, when he and his wife – Princess Diana at that time – were due to visit the political centre of the USA. Some eight weeks before the couple’s planned visit in 1985 the
28th March 2011
Future
You can get people to pay for websites
Readers of The Times online are going to have to dig into their piggy banks come June; The Times and The Sunday Times are to start charging for access to their websites. You will need to pay £1 a day or get it discounted to £2 a week. If you
29th March 2010
Why you must print out every page of your web site
Your company web site has no-doubt had several loving hours spent on it. If you have a blog, it’s pretty certain that there will be tens of thousands of words in it by now if you have been blogging for a a year. This web site, for instance, has over
17th February 2009
Music industry still fails to understand the Internet
Most people who download music from the Internet do it illegally. According to a new industry-backed survey 95% of all music downloaded from the Internet is from “pirate” sites. This morning on BBC Radio Five Live, a UK industry spokesman came out with the same, old, tired arguments that if
16th January 2009
Happy New Year: What will the Internet bring you in 2009?
Happy New Year; I hope you have enjoyed the celebrations and that you don’t start off 2009 with too much of a headache..! At this time of year, of course, it is traditional to look towards the future and set your resolutions for the coming 12 months. Don’t. Resolutions are
1st January 2009
Newspapers and social networks set to die in 2009
Your fate is in your hands; up until now businesses have been able to use newspapers, social networks – other publishers – to help them get their messages across. Marketing experts have often emphasised media coverage and social networks (word of mouth) as a way of promoting your business. However,
10th December 2008
Banks will disappear soon – centuries of tradition to be replaced by Internet systems
People aged over 40 are often amazed by what is happening online. Sometimes they find it difficult to consider things the way those born in the 1970s do. For instance, people under 30 tend to distrust corporates and they also seek the best solutions for what they want to achieve,
12th November 2008
Future
Is your business prepared for the way your future workers will think?
Businesses are ill-prepared for what is going to happen to them in the next couple of years. Students currently at university and college are avid users of social networking sites. New research shows the dramatic increase in uptake of social networking by students. The study reveals that six out of
24th September 2008
Warning: The BBC is over-reacting on the web’s future
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the British inventor of the World Wide Web, spoke recently about his worries about certain parts of the Internet. He is concerned that the web has been used to spread disinformation; he is worried that we can trust some parts of the web when we shouldn’t. Today,
15th September 2008
Future
The net effect of Wimbledon
Today sees the start of the Wimbledon tennis championships in South London and millions of fans will be glued to TV sets and the radio over the coming two weeks – weather permitting of course. The official Wimbledon web site will also doubtless get tons of support as will the
23rd June 2008
Web 2.0? Most businesses haven’t even caught up with Web 1.0 yet..!
Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, was in London earlier this week speaking about the benefits of Web 2.0 for businesses. He’d highlighted what he was going to say in an interview last month with Computing magazine. However, in spite of his enthusiastic support for Web 2.0 and online collaboration,
6th December 2007
Oh dear – Britain is going to lag behind online
Experts frequently fail to get things right. History is littered with so-called experts who predicted things totally incorrectly. The boss of IBM famously said there would only ever be a need for a handful of computers. Ha..! So, why should we believe the “experts” at Ofcom and BT who tell
3rd December 2007
Podcasting? That’s old-fashioned – video is the online future
Professor Jeffrey Cole reckons that before too long we will be watching several hours of video programming on our mobile phones. At a conference in Sydney, Australia, he told digital marketers to expect a major shift to mobile video. We all know that video has taken off online – YouTube
4th November 2007
Your Internet future depends on meeting people
Futurist David Zach recently spoke to a group of business people and told them to drink more..! What he meant was to go out and drink more coffee at places where you can meet people who can help your business. He is a clear advocate of the fact that business
28th October 2007