Category: Web
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Google superlatives
Opening my Chrome browser this morning presented a new Google doodle highlighting Google’s 17th birthday. Many happy returns, Google! Google is a company that seems to have been here for almost ever, not just seventeen years. It’s part of the…
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Mapping to the centimetre
If you think about maps, you probably think about Google Maps and Street View or sat nav hardware and software from TomTom, Garmin and many others. Maps like these – all digital and available on almost any mobile device you…
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The word on ad blocking
I run ad blocking software in the browser on my computer that prevents ads appearing on most web sites I visit. Chrome is my default browser; as I sign in to my Google account in Chrome, and have it sync…
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Tweeting a joke can be no joke
Reports emerged late last week that Twitter is deleting tweets that copy another tweeter’s jokes. The Verge reports on a writer’s request to Twitter to remove a tweet that used her content (a joke) without permission and thus infringed her…
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Idle thumbs: Why commuters are the best audience
A guest post by Simon Bailey, CEO of Axonix, an advertising technology company backed by Telefonica and Blackstone. Any marketer worth their salt knows all customers were not made equal, and that’s particularly true of commuters, where getting the bus…