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Peter Crouch Augmented Reality Demo

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For the world cup. An augmented reality application from Pringles. You can make Peter do his famous robot dance. Its a nice use of the augmented reality [...]

Peter Crouch Augmented Reality Demo
Jul
3
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Will changing my host affect my SEO?

If you are moving your website to a new host, but wondering about your SEO, then this video will give you an answer.

So it seems that there [...]

Jun
26
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Updated http://www.pianosandkeyboards.co.uk/

I have just updated our pianos and keyboards website. It has a new theme and new things that can be done including social marketing buttons and more.
Have [...]

Jun
24
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Youtube gets a Vuvuzela button

According to techcrunch youtube has added a vuvuzela button to the video streaming site!
If you want to have a play around with the button then visit the [...]

Jun
17
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PlayStation Move

PlayStation show off their new controller, PlayStation Move. It kind of is a clone of the Wii Controller but with a faster response times so we will [...]

Jun
2
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Peter Crouch Augmented Reality Demo

For the world cup. An augmented reality application from Pringles. You can make Peter do his famous robot dance. Its a nice use of the augmented reality [...]

May
27
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New theme for the blog

We have a new theme for the blog! Today I found a great theme that looks great and also has some social plugins that should help the [...]

May
10
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Mother’s Day Flower in-game advertising

In game advertising is growing at a fast rate and the latest use is Mother’s day in game promotions. The promotions are added to the social games [...]

May
8
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LEGO digital box

I love augmented reality and any opportunity to show off another use is always welcome. So now Lego have added augmented reality to the boxes of products [...]

May
6
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William Shatner fortune from advertising deal

Star Trek actor William Shatner has made a reported fortune from agreeing to take shares as part of his payment for being the face of priceline.com, an [...]

May
6
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iPhone drones…fun

AR drones have the tah line, when video games become reality. This is an iPhone controlled drone that flies around but controlled using your iPhone. There are [...]

Apr
15
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Rock paper scissors on a T-Shirt

A new way of using t-shirts with webcams that use augmented reality. This is a great way of using printed t-shirts that is a noval way of [...]

Apr
15
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Watch planes in realtime

Today I found this site that you can watch realtime air traffic live.
http://www.flightradar24.com/
This is of interest today because of the Volcanic ash that is coming over from [...]

Apr
9
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Video talk on how to build powerful links to your website

The guys over at Fresh Egg have done put out a great video on how to get links for your website.

An overview of the video content is [...]

Apr
8
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http://www.cakeboxes2u.co.uk Launch

New ecommerce cake box website launched. My company has launched a new cake box ecommerce website that we designed and built. The ecommerce platform we chose for [...]

Apr
7
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Honda’s new people mover

A new prototype from Honda that aims to aime people get around has been shown off. If you thought the segway was good, then check this out.
It [...]

Mar
29
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Brand design from Federation Design Co

I have been working with federation design, offering complete branding solutions to our clients. We have just launched the new website so check it out.
“Marketing your company [...]

Mar
22
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The new look fwa site

The fwa site has been redesigned with a load of new features and also a fresh new look. To me it looks great and continues to be [...]

Mar
10
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Adding blogs to your website

I have added just added a blog to a clients website Tej’s Beauty Salon. Blogs provide a great way to add content to your website that makes [...]

Mar
8
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HTML 5 and new possibilities

Here is a Google video about html 5

The new possibilities that html 5 will bring could be a big change to the way that webpages are developed.
Here [...]

Mar
8
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Added new recent jobs to client’s site

I have just updated a clients website with the latest jobs that they have done. I used the lightbox ajax technique to show the images larger when [...]

Feb
15
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Future of magazines concept

This video has a look at the future of what magazines maybe like. It is a concept video of how they could work in the near future.

Mag+ [...]

Jan
28
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The Apple iPad

Just a quick update to post a video that was on techcrunch of the new iPad. People really go crazy over all things Apple, so it will [...]

Jan
11
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IE Tester

I have found a good program to test websites out in the problematic ie6, its called IE Tester.
The link is: http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePag
Although I still think that ie developer [...]

Jan
6
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Bump top, a new desktop

After seeing the video on TED last year, I found the downloadable application that re-defines the way that you can use the desktop. Its called bumptop. It [...]

Jan
4
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Happy New Year

Happy new year to everyone! Hope that 2010 is a great year forus all.

Dec
18
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TED, How to make a splash in social media

A good video that isunder 5 minutes long, and explains a load about social media and how to make a mark on it.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/alexis_ohanian_how_to_make_a_splash_in_social_media.html
The video features Alexis, one [...]

Dec
14
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Optimising your wordpress website

Six Revisions have posted an artile looking at how to optimise your wordpress website to get more traffic from Google. If you have a wordpress website or want [...]

Dec
9
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Real time search results for Google

Google has started offering real time search results for searches. If you try searching for “Copenhagen”, then you will find a search box like the image below [...]

Dec
3
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SEO Ranking Factors

A good article on what are the primary ranking factors for websites is here http://www.davechaffey.com/blog/seo/update-to-seomoz-seo-ranking-factors/ The sumary was that the following percentages were what was though the [...]

Dec
2
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Working on SEO for http://www.perquisites.co.uk/

I am working on the SEO for a site about Irish fine art prints called perquisites. We have changed the website to have a faster loading front [...]

Nov
27
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Fix for form textfield and submit align

I found this tip about a tip to align the form text field and submit button it seems to work.
http://nclud.com/sketchbook/css-fix-for-graphical-input-submit-button-off-set/

Nov
20
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Chrome OS just for using the internet

The new Google Chrome OS is an opertating system that is just for accessing the interenet. It is said to have a 7 second boot time and [...]

Nov
11
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Playing with Augmented Reality

Here is a video of me playing with the new augmented reality technology

Nov
11
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Designing Coming soons webpages

When it comes to designing coming soon webpages you want to make sure that you have something up on the domian that looks professional but also do [...]

Nov
9
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Working on wms system seo

I am working on a website seo and website imrpovement for a company that provide warehouse management systems for leading companies in the UK. Hopefully I can [...]

Nov
8
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Augmented Reality

Here is a video that shows what augmented reality could bring to video games and actual life interaction.

Nov
6
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Another way of interaction

This talk from Pattie Maes about how they are testing new ways of interacting with the world has a glimpse of what future human computer interation could [...]

Oct
29
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Different methods of interaction

Who says that mouse and keyboard are the only ways to interact with a website. I found an interesting website project today that had interaction via a [...]

Oct
27
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Google Algorithms

An article about how the Google algorithm works. A useful post on SEOmoz explains some of the way Google works using charts to explain the link between [...]

Oct
16
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SEO for youtube

An article on imediaconnect about how to improve your seo on youtube. The article points out that youtube is now the second biggest search engine in use [...]

Oct
13
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Motivation

We all need some motivation some times. I have been watching some video lectures on the website www.ted.com, and on it a Tony Robbins talk.
http://www.ted.com/talks/tony_robbins_asks_why_we_do_what_we_do.html
We all need [...]

Oct
9
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youtube 1bn

Youtube today celebrated ‘1 billion views per day’. Thats a lot of bandwidth! There is probably over that amount but this shows just how many people use the video sharing website.

Oct
5
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England game on web only

In a first, the England football match against Ukraine is to only be available on the web only. Hearing on the radio how upset everyone is about [...]

Oct
3
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The frustration with big companies

I have had what seems like a problem with so many companies technology and support systems recently. First I could not find out how to move a [...]

Oct
2
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Updates to ecommerce website

Our company is updating stock box and packaging products website boxesdirect2u.co.uk we built the ecommerce website last year and after the shop has taken many successful orders [...]

Oct
1
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Google Insights for Search

I have today been playing around with the Google insights website, which lets you see the trends for keywords that you put in.
http://www.google.com/insights/search/
Here is google’s post on [...]

Sep
30
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Why intro pages are not a good idea

I have had another client that I have been explaining why to take off the intro page to their website. So this is my reasoning for not [...]

Sep
30
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UK online spending overtakes TV

The news today that online advertising spending has overtaken TV advertising is no suprise to most people but it’s an interesting note that the line online advertisting [...]

Sep
30
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Updating Filezilla from v2 to v3

I updated Filezilla to the new version, and found a script that enables you to easily transfer the site settings to the new v3 program.
If you have [...]

Sep
28
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Ballmer Interview

Techcrunch posted an interview with Steve Ballmer of Microsoft talking about the future of Microsoft and where they are going and other things like the cloud and [...]

Sep
24
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Measuring your SEO strength

A useful article has been written by Grant Simmons on imediaconnection.com, that is worth a read if you are interested in getting your website higher in search [...]

Sep
23
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Why a keyphrase is better than a keyword

A client was asking questions today about ranking for various keywords and should they try and get their website on the search engines for specific words. I [...]

Sep
23
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ICON website launch

I have been working for a while on www.orthopaedicnursing.org which is an online resource for orthopaedic nursing around the world. For the project we used modx a [...]

Sep
23
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Modx

Modx is an opensource cms that is equipt with AJAX and SEO resources. It runs in php and allows for easy theming and has a set of [...]

Sep
22
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Website is number 1

We just got a client to number 1 in google search rankings, hurry. Isn’t it great when you can get someone to the top of the most [...]

Sep
21
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Imogen Heap using social media

Today I found an a really good example of an artist using all the different social media’s like twitter, facebook and youtube. The artist is called Imogen [...]

Sep
21
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Twitter

Twitter is a micro blogging platform, that has grown exponentially in the last year. Everyone is now talking about twitter and it is also getting known as [...]

Sep
21
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Facebook

Facebook is a social connecting website that people can join and make friends with other people. It is known for sharing photos and also a host of [...]

Sep
21
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youtube

Youtube is a website where users can post there videos and share them with other users. It has become the number 1 video website and has millions [...]

Sep
21
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Working on a local specific website

Further to my local search post, I am working with a website that has 2 practices, in different areas. The challenge is to get them both to [...]

Sep
18
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Claming the blog for technorati

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Sep
17
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Soda pop video example of specialising

Below is a video of Galcos Soda Pop Stop in LA, it is a great example specialising in a product and believing in your product can be [...]

Sep
17
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Kanye West Disses Taylor Swift

Everyone by now has probably heard about the Kanye West / Taylor Swift VMA Award thing, where Kanye West supposedly ‘disrupted’ Taylor Swift’s speech and said that [...]

Sep
15
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Using local search for search engines

Using local search optimization can be a key to most small businesses, still a lot of people never think of it when we first discuss SEO. Using [...]

Sep
11
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SEO Work for clients

I am currently doing SEO work for a client work for bespoke luxury windows and doors. The aim is to make a squeeze page to drive traffic [...]

Sep
11
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Website for Options for Life

I have just been involved in the re-launch of a website for Options for Life a chairty that brings day to day activities to people with learning [...]

Sep
10
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SEO for Facebook and Twitter

Having a twitter page and facebook are now not just good enough anymore, you need to get people to actually read them!
An article about SEO for facebook [...]

Sep
10
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Using social video good example

I watched this video called the “100 Famous Rock Guitar Riffs”, the video was made by a guitar teacher and session musician. Not only is it a [...]

Sep
8
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Hello world! New blog up and running

Hello world indeed. I decided to use this domain (digitalsuccess.co.uk) I had to be a blog about my work with all things web and online marketing related.
I [...]