April 2008
MySpace.com loses MySpace.co.uk on appeal →
MySpace thought it was all over when it secured the MySpace.co.uk domain in February this year. A decision by Nominet’s dispute resolution service handed over the address, which previously…
(Really) Stunning Pictures and Photos →
Photography is a very powerful medium and a very difficult craft. Excellent photos don’t only display some facts — they tell stories, awake feelings and manage to share with the audience the…
Optimizing for Product Colors: Long Tail Gold or... →
Colors are search modifiers that can bring a lot of long-tail traffic. When someone searches for a particular product and color, it often indicates someone is close to a purchase, or at least…
Expandable Table for Small Places →
A year ago I’ve presented a smart expandable table that when rotated at its outer perimeter, amazingly doubles its seating capacity and, just as astonishingly, remains truly circular. You can see…
Burger King agrees to drop foie gras from £85... →
Burger King is planning to roll out what will be the UK’s most expensive burger. Foie gras, which is produced by force-feeding geese, was under consideration as an ingredient, but the fast-food chain said in a statement today that it will not be used.
Pot Noodle ad is 'sexist', say complaints to ASA →
The advertising regulator has received 10 complaints that Pot Noodle’s resolutely un-PC television campaign, featuring a 1980s power ballad about how women should be “easy, simple and hassle free”, is sexist and portrays women as sexual objects.
Agency Time Sheets Vs. Viewer Time Sheets →
Imagine being paid based on how good you are versus how large. It takes an agency with a supreme amount of confidence in their ability to be paid based on their ability
Five tips for online fashion stores →
Leon Bailey Green gives fashion retailers five tips to think about for increasing revenue and sales.
Microsoft Signs Letter Of Intent To Acquire Xobni →
Xobni, which launched at the TechCrunch40 conference last year, offers an outlook plugin for Windows users that significantly improves the desktop email experience (particularly search).
Arsenal FC appoints new web partner - NMA →
Arsenal Football Club has appointed Trinity-Mirror’s Rippleffect as its web partner for the next four years.
After an 8 hour day moving 50 desks, computers and all sorts of crap, I feel like I’ve been beaten with a pipe…
Destroying and rebuilding the office with @natbentley
Now all I need to do is remember what bar I said I’d meet Sarah in…
The Offline Impact Of Online Advertising →
Web advertising stimulates off-line sales and in most cases, online campaigns increase sales more at advertisers’ retail cash registers than on their websites, according to a report by comScore.
Fuel registration is open →
Registration for our new conference “Fuel” is now open. Aimed at entrepreneurs and marketers Fuel will equip you with the knowledge and tools to take your online business to the next level. Tickets…
How did both alarms fail to go off this morning despite being set? Did I dream that I got up and went to work and turned them off in my …
Techno →
Dutch site reinvents what news looks like online →
Recently my attention has been drawn to the Dutch news website www.en.nl. Wilbert Baan, interaction designer for the Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant, told me he wants to see “what we can do with news, social networks, wikis and more.
Springloops Source Code Management Tool →
Springloops is a code collaboration platform with dedicated features for web development. The most important one is the Deployment. You can deploy your code changes to many servers and keep them…
Why do customers abandon the checkout process? →
Problems with the checkout process constitute the single biggest loss of revenue for many e-commerce sites, with almost half of online retail transactions abandoned at this stage.
'Philfing' irritates web shoppers →
A survey of 2,400 UK online shoppers commissioned by MoreComputers.com has revealed the irritation many feel with the practice of ‘philfing’ or ‘purposely hiding what I’m looking for’, with 93% of UK web users are annoyed by such hidden charges.
Online retail spend to reach £44.5bn in 2012 →
Verdict Research Consulting reports that online retail spend will grow 32% this year to be worth £19.5bn, or 6.7% of all retail sales.
Springloops Source Code Management Tool →
Springloops is a code collaboration platform with dedicated features for web development. The most important one is the Deployment. You can deploy your code changes to many servers and keep them…
Magazine publisher Hachette Filipacchi UK buys... →
Hachette marketer Jones takes temporary digital... →
Hachette marketer Jones takes temporary digital reins by Daniel Farey-Jones Brand Republic 14-Apr-08, 10:30 LONDON - Hachette Filipacchi UK has given Anna Jones, its head of marketing, the additional role of acting digital director following its acquisition of entertainment news website Digital Spy last week. Hachette’s last permanent digital director Dave Killeen, resigned in February to...
ddmenu - Mootools based Context Menu →
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Developing an accessible slider | Filament Group,... →
At Filament Group, we build elegant communications and interactions that help people understand, work, and collaborate effectively across a variety of media - from web sites to wireless, to…
In manchester.. Quite drunk..
Mmm sushi
Footers In Modern Web Design: Creative Examples... →
According to classic principles of web design, everything at the bottom of the page isn’t that important. Most users think like that. And most designers are convinced that this is true. Site…
Top 10 bad excuses for staying in a bad job →
If you’re unhappy at work, I’m sure that the thought “Man, I really should quit!” crosses your mind occasionally.
So why don’t you?
Even if you long desperately to quit, to get away from…
Google App Engine is the word on the street →
Everyone’s talking about Google’s freshly launched App Engine, a cloud service which will host your web apps as well as featuring a bunch of other features. Check out some of the coverage at …
one last london thought on joost →
Yesterday I met with a slew of people who are close friends with Niklas Zenstromm and Janus Friis, aka the Skype guys, and I had a pretty frank discussion about Joost with one of them (although I…
SarahLacy.com: one last london thought on joost →
Google App Engine: Launching a startup gets even... →
This is pretty cool. Google launched App Engine, which lets you write code for a web application, then Google takes care of the scaling/failover/logistics-type issues. You can store your data in a…
1007 + Ajax/Javascript/Dhtml examples and demos to... →
With a diverse collection of over 900 Ajax examples, java scripts, jQuery plug-ins, DHTML codes and demos from around the web, Ajaxrain gives you the perfect start to web development Saved…
Eriksson welcomes Ronaldinho link →
Manager Sven-Goran Eriksson would love Manchester City owner Thaksin Shinawatra to buy Ronaldinho.
With Feedback, It’s Kind to be Firm →
Giving people personal feedback isn’t easy, and it’s necessary to keep a smooth working relationship. The quicker you are, as the feedback giver, to make your point, the kinder the feedback is.
Application Lego: Build a Wiki with Symfony in 20... →
This tutorial shows how fast you can develop with symfony. It showcases symfony’s admin generator capabilities, and makes great use of a couple of symfony plugins. Installation Start with an empty…
Magento / Drupal Integration Project →
As part of Google Summer of Code ‘08, a Magento / Drupal integration project is getting off the ground. A detailed proposal has been posted on the Groups.Drupal site, and the…
Leading With Insight →
Some thoughts on insight, how to generate it and how to use it to more.
It’s snowing in
It’s snowing in London! And sticking a bit too…
Watching the Arsenal v Liverpool game at The Clapham North. (Sarah’s a Gooner…)
Watching the Arsenal v Liverpool game at The V
Hmm, I’ve noticed rather a lot of random people following me in what appears to be twitter spam - an attempt to get me to follow them back..
The Next Web Awards winners →
Winner of The Next Web startup competition was:
Wakoopa
Since May last year, Wakoopa will scan your drive, tell you what software you use most and suggest new stuff, as well as hook…
Google to allow trademark bidding →
Google is to allow UK advertisers to bid on trademarked keywords for the first time from 5 May, the company will announce today.
BizTech: Best Practices: Plan a Better Project →
NextWeb - Startup pitches round 4 (Day 2) →
Symbaloo
A new take on the personal home page with the weirdest interface you’ve ever seen. Search and discovery. Wayfinding on the Wbe. There is a lot of volume on traditional start…