The Great Facebook Redesign of 2011
Hot on the heels of the facebook redesigns of 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010, which involved a like button being made two pixels wider, the login shifted to the other side, and the main shade of blue shifted up an octave, we have possibly the most radical changes ever seen [...]
Who’s Using Google’s Personalized Search?
Have you ever wondered why your Google search results look different on other computers to your own? Have you ever wondered why you get different results when searching from within a different browser that isn’t signed into Gmail? It’s personalized results, yknow. Just have a look at the following video [...]
Is Google the Simon Cowell of Search Engines?
There’s only one thing worse than you thinking your kid is super special, and that’s somebody else vicariously thinking the same and you liking it on facebook. As much as Simon Cowell must be stopped in his pursuit of destroying music, his ability to destroy a parent/child axis of delusion [...]
Why Google Maintains 6×9=42
Just the other day I was yakking to Justin about the answer to life, the universe and everything in relation to smashing pies with sledgehammers and had to explain what it was. No prizes for knowing that it’s 42. One of the things (in fact the only thing) about my [...]
Are Your Site Pages Up To (Google) Speed?
You don’t need an SEO charging you an arm and a leg telling you a broken site isn’t much use when it comes to SEO. I’ve yet to come across anybody who doesn’t grasp this particular concept. But a broken site can take on various forms: Bad Coding: Scripts, html [...]
Facebook #Winning?
There’s Charlie Sheen crazy then there’s Facebook owns your interwebs crazy. “Rhymes with winning? That would be us. Sorry, man, didn’t make the rules.” However, Stephen Haines (above), commercial director of Facebook’s U.K. operation, has said: “A day might be coming when the power of Facebook means that major companies [...]
Policing Twitter
Oh to live in a world where one only has to sign into Twitter or Facebook and utter the phrase ‘Viva Le Revolution’ with a time and a Google Mapped place and your government is as good as overthrown. Although, the timeframe for such transitions of power need to be [...]
The Taming of the SEO Shrew
So hell hath no fury like an (SEO) woman scorned, huh? Or somebody who understands the basics of tagging images correctly to help them rank in Google Image searches. Anyway, consider this scenario: your young love fails to bloom and the next thing you know, an indentikit image of you [...]
Google Offers Itself as Groupon Clone
Groupon is one of those peculiar phenomenons on the internets in that fits in the usable category. Yes, its coupon format so familiar that I’m fairly sure your technotard Aunt first informed you that it existed. And now can’t help forwarding you 75% off spa deals every Thursday. The other [...]
Social Media Disclosure Now Legally Required in UK & California
Twice in the past four months my wife has found out close family members have died through facebook. No, not due to excessive status updating, rather that’s where she first heard the news. Maybe this is just part of modern life with large extended families, but it might be an [...]
Pew Generations 2010 Shows Search at #2 and Blogging AWOL
So, Pew decides to do one of its inimitable research surveys into internet usage and here’s how it shakes down: As far as takeaways go, we’ve still got searching for stuff as being the second most common / popular / loved activity across all known age groups. Obviously a similar [...]
Yahoo Cuts 4% of Workforce, Kills Delicious
You may be right in thinking that we’re a bit Google-centric in these parts. It’s not bias, rather a reflection of their dominance in the search engine landscape. Nowadays, all you hear from Yahoo! is mergers, buyouts or job cuts. As the BBC reports: Yahoo has confirmed that it is [...]
The Contextual Discovery Channel
“Google results without the search!” shrieks TechCrunch. I’m not clicking on this. I’ll offer you what is meant by it from elsewhere. Marissa Mayer from Google has been talking to Michael Arrington of TechCrunch about Contextual Discovery: Contextual discovery, Mayer explained, encompasses “local Search, Maps, Earth, Latitude, and all the [...]
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