Category: Web

  • A compelling route for the mainstream media

    The Economist is one of the best-value subscription deals for a mainstream medium that I can think of. For the amount I pay quarterly (about £20, if I recall correctly), I get a print magazine every Friday in the mail,…

  • Wikio Top 30 UK tech blogs for Sept 2009

    This month’s ranking of Wikio’s top 30 technology blogs in the UK is a great snapshot of what’s popular in this space across the UK. The top 30 list is a subset of Wikio’s compete Top 100 UK Technology Blogs…

  • Is ‘social business’ the new black?

    What does “social business” mean? I’ve been wondering this since reading about the acquisition of Headshift by US agency Dachis Group announced this morning UK time. Among the flowery prose in the press release is this phrase that strikes me…

  • The cloud is still not reliable enough

    Much gnashing of teeth yesterday as Gmail (Googlemail in the UK and Germany) was out for the count for some hours following what Google called ‘routine upgrades’ to some of their servers. In a post on the Official Gmail Blog,…

  • PayPal and SMS: a reassuring combination

    I bought my early-bird ticket for Reading Twestival this morning,  paying for it via PayPal. The simple purchase transaction I completed in a couple of minutes reminded me how much I place trust in PayPal, partly because of its neat…