19 April 2011
The hitchhiker's guide to the cloudDon't Panic! Following on from yesterday's bemusing story into the general public's view on cloud computing comes a slightly less ridiculous, but equally abstract offering from one of Gartner's “Coolest Cloud Vendors of 2011”, US-based Abiquo, on how to create a private cloud. Let's just hope some of the respon...
14 October 2010
Social Media and the Book Publishing Industry – Doom or Salvation?Social Media has a stronger impact to books than the movable type had, launched six centuries ago. Social Media makes information producible, accessible and spreads it easily, quickly and without barriers of entry. Is Social Media the paradigm shift which will the publishing indus...
13 July 2009
How to build loyalty via social networkingSiim Vips from CMS and CRM software company Modera discusses how an open social web can facilitate conversation between brand and consumerIn challenging economic times and with an extremely competitive online environment, brands need to do more than create (and sustain) awareness. They also need to...
30 June 2009
Social media - Over-hyped or under-used?With several high profile social media campaigns in the public domain, Simon Wayne, managing director of Parity Solutions discusses the impact upon organisations and consumersFrom the moment Barak Obama made use of social networking in his presidential campaign, it became strikingly clear to all that socia...
26 May 2006
What is metasearch and why should we care?Gavin Somers, marketing director at InfoSpace Europe on metasearch and it provides and alternative for agencies and brandsInternet users trust their search engine of choice, without question, but are they too trusting? There are literally billions of pages available on the Internet, and this number...
15 January 2007
Search - Who has the power? Is it with the user the search provider or the advertiser?Gavin Somers, marketing director at InfoSpace Europe discusses another prolific year in search and who hold the power; search engines or the advertiser.It’s been another magnificent year for search with a raft of great advancements to set the scene for another ...
04 July 2005
Why usability needs design?John Knight, director at User-Lab discusses the relationship between designers and usability professionals and why they need to work with each otherThree years ago I carried out some research on the usability profession. At the time there was an ongoing battle between designers and usability people. Designers were angr...
07 November 2005
Changing Times - Diversity comes to the usability marketThe usability market is starting to diversify, writes John Knight, director, User-LabWe recently saw the announcement of another usability company, Flow Interactive, diversifying its service range. There seems to be change in the air in the usability community. The current deman...
13 March 2006
Homepages - The great divideThe nature of the web is changing and websites need to adjust their homepages accordingly, argues John Knight, director, User-LabIf you were to sit down and think about it, how many sites would you estimate that you visit in a day? I hardly ever venture further than The BBC and about four work-related sites and ...
21 March 2007
YouTube and social media site legal spatsFollowing recent reports of Viacom suing YouTube for $1bn for copyright infringement, Simon Halberstam looks at how the web will cope with the challenges of copyright protection.Viacom, better known as the owners of MTV & Nickelodian claim that about 160,000 unauthorised clips of its programmes have b...