Check out the new Economist.com screensaver. We’ve been working with the great team over at Economist.com for a while, and were set the challenge to help re-invent their previously phenomenally successful screensaver from several years back.
The 3D globe screensaver showcases 66 of the world’s major economies, drawing on the 2007 edition of The Economist’s […]

Not literally but technically, here’s a delightful site for the technical savy art loving tourist about to hit Paris.  Google Maps continue to power the mash up arena with this art lover’s blog providing a doubly visual offering of what’s being exhibited in Paris now!
http://www.artscape.fr/map.php
All they need is a download to blackberry functionality so that […]

Following the lead of Adidas, Toyota and Reuters, CNET reports Vodafone is the latest big brand to announce a presence in Second Life - the ever popular virtual world. But why? Well, Vodafone say one reason is to “find out how you can carry on a conversation you started in the virtual world […]

I recently e-mailed a supplier and waited a week before I got a response - only to find out they had been on holiday all week. As it’s our office policy to switch on the ‘out of office assistance tool’ in Microsoft Outlook when we are out of the office I was surprised that […]

Are you one of those people that hasn’t registered on Friends Reunited or other similar sites in case that old class bully or dodgy university pal will get back in touch?
Well, New Scientist reported in their flippant column Feedback about one US site where you can search for the names of new and previous prison populations.  The […]

Interview with Maz Nadjm from Rareface about Social Networking.

We’ve just finished developing the beta release of Cogenz. Based on the social media success of del.icio.us, Cogenz, which stands for Collective Intelligence, offers a shared bookmarking facility: a knowledge management tool that sits behind the firewall of an enterprise. The first review by Anu Gupta appears positive. We’ve developed it in .Net on Microsoft […]

If you’re launching a new site, using Google Sitemaps is a must. The reason is simple - it alerts Google about your existence. Including all your pages in the XML file ensures that Googlebot will have an easier time crawling your site.
Just 10 years ago, all major search engines accepted and […]

Ever since the advent of the internet, sending software on CD’s has seemed like a dying art. According to the blogosphere, the 95% profit margins on the software sent on these CD’s have been dead for some time already.
If you like grim predictions for the future of software companies who still stick […]

I spoke to a room full of Charities at UK Fundaising’s Perfect Pitch last week and I told them it was time they stopped sending me all this random junk mail which must be costing them a fortune! They couldn’t even tell whether I opened the mail. The only value they were […]