An interesting move by Yahoo today, as they launch their own Twitter search tool. An indicator no doubt of the importance that is being placed on Twitter as a platform for search.  Like some of the Adobe AIR  applications that have preceeded it (Tweetdeck and rTweeter) - it is built using Adobe ai...

I've blogged before at length about some of the things I personally feel e-commerce sites are doing wrong, and can do better. However in my opinion, one of the fundamental problems with e-commerce on the web is that retailers think about an online shop in the same way they do an offline bricks and m...

Quick post for those of you who haven't already seen it - I have recently guest posted over at Twitip - thanks to Darren and Lara for accepting my application to write. Take a read over there and let me know your thoughts. I have focused on the benefits of Twitter for receiving real time help. Th...

Some sites have it tough. If you are building a site such as Flickr, or are a photographer wondering how to get better  exposure (pun not intended) for your images via search engines, you are generally up against it. With the majority of your content being visual, it's harder to get a decent rank o...

Starting out with a new blog can be extremely daunting - even for experienced webmasters. The possibility of all your hard work ending up in the domain name heaven, because you lose interest, or traffic to your site isn't what you initially predicted can be really offputting. It's easy to get stu...

One of the first sites that I've seen advertising on Twitter is ExecTweets. The site launched today from Federated Media, and sponsored by Microsoft, is built on top of the Wordpress platform. The basic gist is that execTweets collects posts from corporate executives, and allows a digg style voting ...

There are a variety of ways to get traffic to a blog. I thought it's only fair to touch on all the ways that I currently know of to get traffic, and how to promote a website. Design Think that design doesn't matter to your website? Wrong. There are millions of other sites out there already, so wha...

[caption id="attachment_1853" align="alignright" width="300" caption="reputation management for free!"][/caption] Reputation management is everywhere, you can't turn a corner on the web without seeing another service crop up out of the woodwork to monitor your company reputation online. Infact, t...

Successful marketing is three quarters idea driven, and one quarter research, so the follow are a list of sites which may help you gain feedback on that redesign, or assertain with some degree of certainity of your new websites' potential success. They may also help you in closing the feedback loop,...

The internet has provided a great mechanism for market research. Where previous traditional methods  include focus groups, panels or face to face interviews, via a wide range of mediums - the internet provides a cost effective route to getting the research you need when you need it at speed, and at...