Archive for the ‘Internet Strategy’ Category

Miley Cyrus becomes a web designer - a message to the Outsourcing community

We received an email this morning from some company who provide outsourcing services and was surprised to see that it was sent by Miley Cyrus.


Past, Present and… Past?!

I read about the Memento Project this evening on New Scientist. An interesting concept, the working group have a server and client update that allows the web browser (user) to access not just the current version of the website, but previous versions of the site too. Unlike the Internet Archive Wayback When machine, rather than taking [...]


Re-inventing the wheel

I’m all for speeding things up. My folks are still living in dial-up land in Co. Clare and my own thesis for my degree was on “The Future of the Web,” most of which focused on the improvement of technologies to accommodate faster processing and more transparency of function to the user (using AJAX for [...]


Internet addresses set to recognise non western characters

ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the organisation charged with responsibility for  Internet Protocol (IP) address space allocation and country code (ccTLD) amongst other things is meeting in Seoul this week.
Coming out of that meeting it has been agreed to to allow non-Latin-script web addresses, that is set to change the way [...]


Happy Birthday Mr. Internet

The internet is 40 years old today. Can you believe it? It only seems like yesterday… only joking I am not that old.
October 29th was when one message was sent from one computer to another… the message consisted of one word with three letters …. “Log” but the computer crashed and only “LO” was received.
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Good practices: change your passwords…

Many Hotmail/Live/MSN users should change their passwords: lots of credentials have been illegally collected thanks to phishing techniques and published on the web over the weekend


Lance Armstrong - The Bikes of Stages

Check out the Trek Bikes of Stages a campaign, exhibition and website that supports Lance Armstrong Livestrong campaign.


So newspapers, TV and twitter are not for teens..

There are several interesting articles that appeared everywhere last week about a report written (full report) by Matthew Robson, a 15 year old intern at Morgan Stanley. The report gives an insight into the habits, likes and dislikes of teens


Google Ads - to be or not to be…

There’s an interesting article in the Irish Times regarding the behaviour of Irish internet users when using search  - Surfers pay “little attention” to Google ads.
There is no doubt that being on the first page of a search result is the holy grail for your business. However relying on Google Ads (Paid Search) to attract customers [...]


A picture says a thousand words

There is a school of thought that would argue that a visitor to a website makes lasting impressions of their visit in a just a few seconds.