"I came, I shared, I left." - in many cases, this is the pattern that forms from traffic arriving from social platforms to many sites on the web today. Take a snapshot of the traffic to your website from social bookmarking sites, Twitter, Facebook et al, and you'll see high bounce rates, low time on...

Having explored how many profiles Google currently have, compared to Facebook, one of the notable things that occurred to me at the time, was why was their current people search so poor? With the roll out of Google+, there have been obvious improvements to this product from just over a month ago, ty...

Following on from their announcement two weeks ago, that content creators have influence, Google have rolled out a new feature that shows the Google profile of certain content creators in the search results. For example, if you perform a search (as I did this morning) for content produced by 'Matt C...

I've been sitting on this post for quite some time. It's seems with the rapid pace of mobile development on the web, and the increased focus that this brings to developers, that there isn't a day goes by without someone bringing something new to the table. Whether that be a new library, a new framew...

Consumers of information on the web have always been fickle. With the next website being a click away, and viewers quickly scanning instead of reading - increasing engagement on your website isn't an easy task. Which is why some of the successful social startups on the web are all the more intere...

Whilst there are numerous websites out there dedicated to keeping track of particular brand and competitors mentions across the social web, there isn't , to my knowledge, any solution for watching URLs getting hotter across multiple aggregated topics and services. At least none that don't require th...

Having taken a peek at Google's  robots.txt file, I uncovered a pretty interesting URL. (It's a biggish download if you are wondering why your browser is struggling). Turns out the entire list of Google profiles that Google has on it's books (which are  forming the basis of Google +1) are all ...

URL: http://thinkupapp.com/ Thinkup started life as a personal project of  Gina Trapani - many of you will already be familiar with her work on Lifehacker.  It is a great free, open source web application that captures your posts, tweets, replies, retweets, friends, followers and links on ...

I'm pretty many of you noticed the Techcrunch guest post last week, "Why Facebook will put Google out of Business" - pure trash talking linkbait, that appealed to the many masses of sheeple enamoured with Facebook, and ready to chase after Google with pitchforks. In many ways I applaud Techcr...