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Mobile internet usage is exploding and the business case for mobile websites or applications is becoming stronger than ever. According to a recent report from Affiliate Window, smartphone penetration has now reached 45% in the UK, m-commerce has grown by 300% in the last year and on July 9th they exceeded the 2011 total for […]

It won’t be long before internet usage from mobiles is greater than desktops. According to a study by market analyst firm IDC (Aug 2011); ‘The number of people accessing the Internet from smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices will surpass the number of users connecting from a home or office computer by 2015’ Across a range of […]

Beyond the media’s attention on the Facebook IPO there has also been a major announcement by Google detailing the overhaul and unification of their privacy policy. As a user of any Google products you are likely to have either been sent an un-personalised standard email message or upon login you’ve been displayed a message in […]

I’ve been looking at moving house recently and during my lunch time web-surf, somehow I stumbled upon the business section of the Guardian website looking at share prices. This article caught my attention – “Bank of England turns to Google to shed light on economic trends”. I am a quite a Google-fan-boy so was immediately […]

In a post yesterday I looked at the current accuracy of Google Insights for Search data. Further.co.uk had indicated that the data presented by Google could be less valuable today than it was in 2008. I agree, it does appear that the data has been modified (it looks like the data has been smoothed) – […]

Google Insights for Search is now two years old – Happy Birthday Insights! I do love Google’s Insights for Search tool. Whenever I am looking at keyword opportunities for clients, the tool is there to give me long-term trends, geographical distribution and suggest other keywords I might like to have a look into. Two years […]

I am going to lay my cards on the table early, but I’ve a gut feeling that AOL’s sale of affiliate marketing arm Buy.at to Digital Window, parent company of Affiliate Window, will end up being bad news for merchants. Both Buy.at and Affiliate Window are already major players in UK and European affiliate marketing […]

Isn’t it great when things just work? Sometimes – especially after updating computer software – things do go wrong. Earlier this week, a website news ticker crashed my installation of Firefox. Normally I’d just restart it and get on with what I was doing, but on this occasion the team at Mozilla struck a very pleasant […]

It looks like Google is going to update its Adwords trademark policies again. As a few sources reported recently, Google is trialling the removal of trademarking in the US market, starting on 15th June 2009. Advertisers in the UK market can already bid on each others’ trade-names. For example, if Adidas want to bid on […]

The online world is maturing. Much of the jargon associated with the internet is no longer regarded as such. Instead much has passed into the collective vocabulary, becoming part of everyday conversations, particularly in the realm of social media. This evolution has even begun to affect basic spelling. For example the hyphens once associated with […]