Internet Psychologist
The number of people earning a second income by trading online has doubled in the last year. A survey by Collect+ [http://www.collectplus.co.uk ], the parcel delivery and returns service, dubs such online entrepreneurs ‘e-pportunists’, finding that a third earn over GBP10,000 a year.[1] Over half (59%) of those trading online …
Amanda Knox (R), the U.S. student convicted of murdering her British flatmate Meredith Kercher in Italy in November 2007, arrives in court after a break during her appeal trial session in Perugia September 30, 2011. Knox, jailed for 26 years, and her Italian ex-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, are fighting their convictions …
One of the easiest ways to increase web traffic and boost sales is to properly utilize search engine optimization (SEO) to the best of your ability.
Hardly a week goes by without the industry discussing whether the future is social, with Facebook set to be leading the way. With more than 750 million active users, Facebook’s population exceeds that of the European Union*, making the Facebook platform increasingly attractive as an enterprising marketplace. With the recent …
Today the GSMA announced the results of a study of more than 4,000 mobile phone users in Singapore, Spain and the UK, which sheds light on privacy issues, particularly relating to the use of the mobile Internet and mobile applications. The research follows the January publication of the GSMA’s Mobile …
New Research Data Suggests non-English Speaking Internet Users Deserve More Attention From Brands Brands are failing to capitalise on the vast spending power of non-English language Internet consumers, according to digital media company, Populis, which today released new research data on worldwide Internet use and the size and potential of …
Muslim men in the UK are increasingly deciding to have more than one wife, according to a study performed by the BBC Asian Network. Religious rules allow Muslim men to have up to four wives, though under British law, they are only legally allowed one; the other wives are arranged …
By Jon Rhodes For years when I worked in employment I instinctively knew that something was not right. I am not by any means a lazy person. I have regularly gone to the gym several times a week for years. I used to spend hours every day practicing the guitar, …
Troy Davis was executed yesterday for a crime he denied committing. Amnesty International had a petition of over 1m signatures protesting against the unsafe conviction. Even the Pope weighed in with a plea to prevent the killing. There was a massive international campaign protesting this man’s innocence – even the …
Infographic showing how much you can do online, rather than leaving home to do it.
In the early days of the Internet, when search engines were a new concept, programmers came up with algorithms that allowed web surfers to search for content that was relevant to their initial query, comparing the search terms entered against the content on any given page. Early Internet searches threw …
Facebook users are going to get a surprise tomorrow; the social networking site that they love so much is trying to make them love it even more. On average we each spend 15 minutes every day using Facebook, creating three new pieces of content every day on the site. But …
People who love the concept of “Neuro-Linguistic Programming” (NLP) will often try to empathise with you by “mirroring” your body language. There is plenty of research which shows that when people are attracted to each other they tend to adopt similar body positions, make the same gestures and so on. …
Dr Brooke Magnanti is a scientist who you might know better as “Belle du Jour“, the £300-an-hour prostitute who wrote such a famous blog it was converted into the TV series, “Secret Diary of a Call Girl” starring Billie Piper. Dr Magnanti was finally “uncovered” in 2009, some six years …
