E-commerce stores are traditionally difficult to generate links for. With many stores offering the same type of products, there's not much reason to link to product pages unless they have something unique about them. I've hinted before that retailers need to add value to see growth in their business...

Developed by the clever folks at MIT Media Lab - Fluid Interfaces Group, DepthJS is a web browser extension that allows any any web page to interact with Microsoft Kinect via Javascript. Released last night this video shows the potential that DepthJS has for developers and is open source, and ava...

It looks like new life is potentially being breathed into Google wave via an open source proposal created today at the Apache Software Foundation. Plans to turn Google's fledging product into 'WIAB' (Wave in a box) - an open source implementation of some of the protocols created at the plex, got und...

Everyone loves online presentations. They offer easily digestible snippets of content that break down communication problems and understanding. when done right, they can provide an extra level of excitement and interactivity to a talk, or clarity to a concept. It's no surprise then, that the po...

There are little to no courses available that bridge the gap between online marketing, or journalism for the web out there, and those with formal training often find themselves scratching their heads when they break a story online, and yet some other random bozo / blogger on the web outranks them fo...

Today marks our blog's third anniversary! Woohoo Whoop!  Thank you all for being such loyal and loving readers, hopefully you'll be here for the next three years to come. What better way to celebrate (or in other words, what a brilliant excuse) to share with you all a collection of geeky birthday c...

As a follow up to my earlier post on social comment systems, there are existing plugins to supercharge your comment stream for those of you who are happy enough with the way things work in Wordpress already, particularly if you have upgraded to the latest and greatest edition. The following short po...

Conversation is massively important online for a number of reasons. Firstly, it helps you build rapport with your audience, and secondly it provides you with fresh as a daisy content for your site.  An active comment stream is also  a sign that your content is both healthy, useful and engaging, an...