Aug
31st
2011
Hipsell – A hyperlocal mobile marketplace
posted in: Reviews

URL: http://hipsell.com Launching today yesterday in public beta, Hipsell is a Canadian startup designed to connect buyers and sellers on a hyperlocal level. With Hipsell, you now have the ability to snap items on your phone and instantaneously have them up for sale on the web within 30 seco...

Aug
23rd
2011
Twitter Recent Images – a slippery slope of feature creep?
posted in: Twitter
Twitter Recent Images – a slippery slope of feature creep?

Twitter have rolled out a new feature showcasing galleries of recently uploaded images from users. Galleries  display the 100 most-recent images the user has shared with their followers dating back to January 1, 2010, from supported photo-sharing services. Clicking view all launches a gallery in ei...

Aug
20th
2011
Why your content needs to have mass market appeal.
posted in: Website Promotion
Why your content needs to have mass market appeal.

One of the most frequent mistakes people make in their approach to content strategy, is concentrating solely on the audience they have built their product around. For example, I see retailers blogging soley about new product lines, I see hyper local startups blogging solely about local events, I see...

Aug
19th
2011
What if Google bought StumbleUpon?
posted in: Google

StumbleUpon, is something of a sleeping giant. The largest discovery engine on the web is now in it's 10th year, and has established a user base of over 13 million. According to ComScore, StumbleUpon is growing at a rate of 20% month on month for the last couple of months, partly due to the introduc...

Aug
17th
2011
Google Related – finding related content as you browse.
posted in: Google
Google Related – finding related content as you browse.

URL: http://www.google.co.uk/related/ Google Related is a new Chrome Extension announced today from Google that shows you content related to the page you are currently on while you browse around the web. When you're surfing with Related, you'll often see a thin bar along the bottom of you...

Aug
15th
2011
Adobe Muse lets you create websites without coding.
posted in: Web Design

URL: http://muse.adobe.com/ Adobe have just launched a new design tool aimed at traditional graphic designers without any knowledge of coding. Currently in public beta, and built in Adobe Air, it lets designers use a freeform tool to design and publish professional, dynamic HTML/CSS website...

Aug
14th
2011
Aside Magazine – Is this the future of the magazine?
posted in: Web Design
Aside Magazine – Is this the future of the magazine?

URL: http://asidemag.com/ With a whole host of major publishers developing native apps to bring their content to the iPad, you'd not be crazy for thinking that the app route was the only logical one. There are of course ways and means around this, and as further evidence of this trend, Aside M...

Aug
13th
2011
Google Voice launches in the UK
posted in: Google
Google Voice launches in the UK

As a viable Skype competitor, and a strategic product in Google's growing army of mobile technologies, Google Voice first hit the U.S. market last year, allowing people to make calls right from within their Gmail account at competitive rates. This week, the service began a phased international rollo...

Aug
10th
2011
Zero to hero – 10 bulletproof steps to 1000 visits a day.
Zero to hero – 10 bulletproof steps to 1000 visits a day.

So. You've developed your shiny new website, installed Google Analytics, and are now wondering how the hell you are going to get visitors to come and see it. This post takes a detailed step by step, no bullshit approach to getting your website from a standing start to achieving a target traffic leve...

Aug
02nd
2011
Tiggr – Cloud based Mobile Application Development.
posted in: Reviews
Tiggr – Cloud based Mobile Application Development.

URL: http://www.gotiggr.com   I'm continually impressed at the quality of cloud based applications for web development, so when I came across rich internet application - Tiggr from the guys at Exadel, I simply had to take a closer look at their offering.  At first glance, Tiggr c...

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