URL: http://canv.as/ I first came across Canvas when research new collaborative drawing tools for this post. It was still in private Beta at the time, so I popped off a request for invite, and it landed in my inbox a couple of days ago. Canvas is a fun application centred around one thing ...

URL: http://free.findmaps.co.uk/ Last year the UK government released numerous datasets to the public, an example being the Ordnance Survey’s OS OpenData. FIND’s Personalise Your Map website is an interesting development that allows the members of the public to make use of UK government d...

Sometimes you come across marketing creativity that really makes you sit up and take notice. When faced with the unenviable task of searching for a job,  and marketing yourself,  the web and social media provides a variety of opportunities that wouldn't work with other mediums. This collection ...

Music, is one of my many loves. I am, however, musically speaking inferior compared to some of the acts and independant artists to be found in the corners of the web. It's no secret that today's music chart is largely influenced by the web, and that musicians worldwide have never been better equ...

I've just stumbled upon something for those of you running Android phones, which lets you control YouTube directly from your phone. This free application provided by Google connects your Android device directly with YouTube Leanback, a full screen browsing experience for YouTube. The service esse...

URL: http://trendspottr.com/ TrendSpottr is a real time search and curation tool, which attempts to bring together the buzz and activity across a number of channels in one place, via custom software which algorithmically determines relevance, categorisation and usefulness for particular searc...

Google Analytics is a fantastic product and I use it personally on a daily basis without fail. There is however a wealth of data hidden behind its reporting tools if you can just manipulate it the right way. This collection of tips, tricks and reports should hopefully get you off to a flying start i...

The recent gold rush of companies implementing native mobile applications largely reminds me of the desktop application market about 10 years ago. History, it seems, is in the current process of repeating itself, and the benefits and lessons we've learned from the growth and adoption of the humble w...

URL: Pen.io There are loads of times when you may need to share a large piece of text content online via a link, but don't want to have to setup a blog or publishing platform to do it. Whether you are a coder needing to share your stacktrace or a tortured artist needing some poetic release on Twi...

Just noticed that Google are now showing a new "something different" section in the SERPs when using high profile brands and site names. This is likely coming from traffic patterns of users between sites, and hopefully will filter down to the lower traffic'd sites before long. It's long been recogni...