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 also many other features. Looks like fun.

For more informatioin http://ardrone.parrot.com/parrot-ar-drone/en

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 interating with the website. The website plays you at Rock Paper Scissors. I wonder who will be using this kind of idea in the future.

The website to play on is:

Rock Paper Scissors T-Shirt using Augmented Reality

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 Iceland, so you can watch the planes live avoiding airports that are affected in the UK.

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 below:

Link Building
People are turning to internet marketing in the recession because:

• It’s targeted
• It’s measurable
• Great ROI (return on investment)

How?

• Google algorithm
• Relevance and importance

Relevance

• Matching pages to keywords

Importance

• Query dependant
• Links are used as votes, ones with the most links are the most important ones
• The combined authority of links that are coming to your site, how much influence and authority are those links giving your site?
• Not just links but authority links!
• Linkerati: the section of your audience that have the power and authority to link to your site, bloggers, online journalists, social media, bookmarking, tagging. Every niche has a linkerati: who are they? Why do they link? Give them something to link to?
• Power of giving away value for free. If you don’t’ share your expertise you’ll never get any links, and you’ll be invisible on the web

3 DAY PLAN – to get authority links

Day one

• Find your linkerati
• 10 sites to link to
• Google it – top blogs for your area
• Blog search – Google blog search, technerati – pick a topic relevant to your area that is time relevant
• Link diagnosis – allows you to see your site and your competitors links

Day two

• Don’t rush
• Reading, listening, understanding, absorbing
• Language they use, why they link when they link, learn from that
• Comment on the posts
• Gets you in the mind of your targets

Day 3

• Create one piece of content on your site that you are going to give away to the linkerati for free
• How to or beginners guide, something that hasn’t been done before
• Money saving tip or do it yourself guide
• To collate information that’s already out there and put it together as a resource – an authoritative resource
• If your willing to dedicate time and energy to your site you will be able to start getting your authority links

Will become more and more necessary to get these links as the market becomes more saturated

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 this web project was PrestaShop. This is the first time that we used this platform so it will be interesting to see how it goes.

PrestaShop is a modern opensource ecommerce platform that allows quite a few options that come built in.

View the site now.

http://www.cakeboxes2u.co.uk/

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 is like a mini uni-cycle that can not only move forward and backward, but also sideways.

The link has a video of some people trying out the prototype. Looks like fun.

http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/04/06/hands-on-with-the-honda-u3-x-the-amazing-people-mover/

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 through innovative design and technologies to deliver your bespoke project, surpassing your expectations and building a long-lasting professional relationship.”

http://www.federation-design.co.uk/

The new website has just launched and we are looking to build on our already strong working relationship.

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 a great source of whats hot in website design.

http://www.thefwa.com/

Check it out and share your thoughts on the sites that are submitted.

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 it offer more than just a site about you and your services. Answering question and adding new useful information all make your website more useful to potential clients and can position you as an expert in your field.

We added a wordpress blog to the website which allows it to be easily updated and edited without being an expert in web design. If you would like a blog for your website then just get intouch.

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 is a good resource site about it:

http://html-five.net/

Also YouTube are now starting to use html5 video embeded videos.