Google Real Estate launched in UK
News broke last December that Google was “entering” the UK/European real estate market, which at the time sent the share prices of Rightmove (an online real estate portal who was also the first UK property portal to launch an application for the iPhone) into a…
Best practice for video content
Google’s goal with video search (as with web search) is to provide the best and most relevant results to users. So, how do you try and make sure your videos will be returned in the search results? The Webmaster Central blog has some great video…
Tweet Tastic
Twitter shows no sign of slowing up as it hits its 15 billion tweet mark last weekend. Bearing in mind the 10th billion tweet was only sent on March 4th. It took Twitter a year to hit 5 billion tweets, but by adding another 5…
An Internet Election?
At the last Election in May 2005, social networking sites were few and far between. YouTube had only been going for 3 months, Facebook was largely unheard of and no one really used blogs. How different that all looks 5 years on. It was predicted…
The end of Bebo?
We heard today that AOL plans to either sell or shut down the social networking site Bebo. You may remember that AOL reportedly bought the site 2 years ago for £417m, but analysts predict a selling price, if that’s what AOL do, of significantly lower…
Facebook overtakes Google (but won’t in the UK)
Last week, Nick posted on the story that Facebook had picked up more US Internet visits than Google.com. But what about the UK? I found a very nice post by Robin Goad from Hitwise that goes in to a bit of detail about this. Facebook…
Bing launches new UK TV ad…
This week saw Bing launch its first UK TV ad campaign under the tagline ‘Bing and decide’. The campaign aims to show how Bing simplifies the ‘information overload’ that accompanies the results of many searches. Personally I’m not really a fan of the ad. I…
10 years since The Dotcom Bubble
Wow, 10 years today since the bursting of the dotcom bubble! Great post here from Robin Goad from Hitwise about how the Internet landscape has changed over the last decade: “Below is a list of the top 20 websites in the UK last week, with…
Dads and their dancing skills
Has anyone ever wanted their Dad to dance in public. Has anyone ever wanted their Dad to dance in public, and then video it?? Well apparently The Jamaica Tourist Board is doing just that – encouraging kids to not only laugh at their Dad’s most…
Bigmouthmedia merger with LBi
Big news today folks…big news for the Bigmouths at Bigmouthmedia that is. I saw the tweets come flooding in this morning at about 9am, shortly followed by the official press release which reported the merger of LBi and Netherlands-based Obtineo (amalgamation of Bigmouthmedia plus €40m…