Web stuff
The bebo story
bebo has just been sold to AOL for £417 million. Here’s their story from the Sunday Times. Read More …
The top 10 Web Apps revealed
A little while ago I added a vote for your favourite Web App button on here. Now the results are in. My particular favourites are Mint and Basecamp and of course WordPress. Surprisingly FaceBook is only number 4 although it does seem to be going through a ‘it’s got too big let’s knock it down’ phase at the moment. The full list is here. Read More …
What's your web app?
If you’re into web apps (and why wouldn’t you be?) you can vote for your favourite and have a chance to win a wii. Just click on the box at the top and it’ll take you to the voting form. Read More …
A new BBC (beta) home page
Today the BBC launched a new version of its home page. Good to see it centred in the page at long last and the analogue clock is a nice nostalgic touch. It’s also customisable which starts to make the site far more personal to use wherever you are. Expect to see much more customisable home pages and perhaps more use of aggregate sites like Pageflakes as the internet goes mobile. More detail about Read more …
Tips for building great websites
In the run up to Christmas, especially with postal delays looming, a timely list from Retail Bulletin Top ten mistakes that could leave your website vulnerable as the Christmas rush approaches. Seth (isn’t it great when your first name can be your brand) has been majoring on websites and CSS lately, here’s his list of do’s and dont’s for creating a website. And finally e-consultancy’s Read more …
Social Networks – the numbers
The numbers are out today on Europe’s social network use. Here at Comscore the amazing figures that nearly 78% of the UK’s online population visit a social networking site on average 15.8 times (average 5.8 hours) every month. ‘Heavy’ users are up to 22 hours a month, still well short of an hour a day though. In the subtext we’re told this doesn’t include under 15′s, Read more …
A couple of Web 2.0 articles
In the past couple of days I’ve read a couple of articles worth a read around the Web 2.0 theme. The first on mad by Paul Dawson tells us of a survey of 1,000 marketing managers of which ‘almost half’ 42% didn’t feel that customers were interested in being provided with Web 2.0 technologies, although I’d prefer to look at it that 58% (of marketing managers) do and the Read more …
