Skype Group Video Calls – Beta Version

Released earlier this year, Skype Group Video Calling, a beta version for Windows users. In order to use this software everyone in the call must all be using the same version of Skype 5.0, but hey it’s a beta. If this rolls out to other devices then could prove to be a killer app for [...]

UK iPhone iOS4 Review July 2010

In Aug 2007, I decided to leave my current 12 month phone contract and opted for a Sim only deal. Advantages included were not being tied to a contract, I got a reasonable amount of minutes for my buck, and as a bonus there was the choice of a free bolt on, like free 3G [...]

Mog Music Service.

On the homepage of this website it says that Mog is “The Most Sophisticated, User-Friendly Music Player on the Web”. So why have I not come across it before or none of my friends recommended it to me? I know now, it’s not accessible to the UK. So why do sites make statements like “on [...]

Four Square Promotion At Graze Coffee Shop – Hong Kong.

I got to explore Hong Kong the other week and came across this interesting in-store promotion. See image below. It’s nice to see even small coffee stores adopting new media to engage their customers in order to drive in new business. By the way, the coffee is not bad ether. Find out more about Graze [...]

Microsoft & Sharp Bring You Kin One & Kin Two.

New mobile phones tend to evolve towards becoming smarter and smarter, with better technology and a wider range of features. But earlier this week Microsoft who have teamed up with the Japanese manufacturer Sharp have decided to try a slightly different tactic. They have introduced two new mobile phones into the marketplace branded Kin One [...]

The Twitter Advertising Models Emerge, That’s Right, Models.

Twitter has now been around a few years and is utilised by Big Brands, SME’s and individuals as a very useful communication channel. You can read more about using Twitter and catch up on some case studies at : http://business.twitter.com/twitter101 New Twitter advertising models are emerging, allowing businesses to promote their tweets above others in [...]

Web Trends : Get Started In Online Marketing Today With Inbound Marketing.

10 years ago, marketing your website required the use of simply adding a few popular key words. This was great for bringing in traffic but the conversion rates were well off the mark. As the dot com bubble burst, website owners demanded much more justification for their marketing budgets and this gave rise to the [...]

You Can Help Science Today With The Solar Storm Watch.

Interested in helping scientists to spot explosions on the Sun and tracking them as they travel towards Earth? Then the Solar Storm Watch could be for you, and in fact anyone can be a solar storm watcher thanks to the Internet. Brought to you by the Royal Observatory Greenwich, The Science & Technology Facilities Council [...]

Blur – Mario Kart Meets Burnout …Socially Of Course.

Blur is a game created by Bizarre Creations the people behind the Project Gotham series and Activision the pure play online and console game publisher. Due for release in May later this year, I played a demo version of the game and noticed was a social twist has been placed within the game. Although other [...]

Web Trends : More Social Crowd Funding …This Time It’s Fashion.

Focusing on fashion, consumers will soon be able to fund designers directly through a website called FashionStake in return for credits on clothes. This model offers an alternative to purchasing from retailers and the communication channels of this model allows for the unique opportunity of supporting the creative process. Not sure if it will have [...]

Get Funding For Your Project By Using Social Media.

Do you need cash for a personal project without sacrificing any ownership of your idea, then Kickstarter may be for you. Kickstarter is a New York based website that allows its users to create a project with a set cash objective and deadline. Other users are then open to making contributions towards the project, however [...]

Google Analytics For Your Facebook Fan Pages …Nice Touch.

Understanding the habits of your users is an on-going process. Learning about the pages visited, time spent on those pages, new vs returning visiting numbers, keywords, geographic locations etc can help to improve the value provided by your website. If you want the exact numbers and science then you would probably need to spend money [...]

The Next Big Website.

Information Gathering was a class I took at university. As a process, this a very important part for researching and creating web applications. However what are the effects of continuous information gathering in one area? 10 years ago, I thought that the refining process of information would happen quite quickly, because information from websites that [...]

Blippy – Fancy Telling The World What & When You Buy Online.

Blippy is a site that allows you to share your online purchasing habits with fellow Internet users. On their website they say that Blippy is a fun and easy way to see and discuss what everyone is buying. It works in a similar way to Twitter, in that you follow other users purchasing habits and [...]

Google Reader Play – A Visual Way To View The Web.

Google is always coming up with new ideas, some of the ground breaking, some of them not. One of Google’s latest releases is Google Reader Play. It’s a different way to view content on the web, by bringing together images, video and text in a visual slide show rather than a text based list. Content [...]