Yahoo! News
Been asked to comment on a story about what our email address says about our personality for an article being written for Yahoo!
BBC News Website
Interviewed by the BBC News Website for a story on online distraction – are workers distracted by the likes of Facebook? I explained that the distraction usually only occurs if the job is boring. Distraction is more of a comment on the design of jobs than it is on the …
How to get more clicks on your Google listings
It’s great if your website is listed on Google’s first result page for the right keywords. It’s not so great if nobody clicks on your listing because there’s something wrong with it. There are some easy and some not-so-easy things that you can do to get more clicks on your …
HostGator.com Web Hosting Increases Bandwidth on All Dedicated Servers to 10TB
HostGator.com, a leading web hosting provider, has announced today that it has increased the bandwidth allowance on all dedicated servers to 10TB free of charge. This includes existing client’s servers automatically increasing to the new 10TB allowance. “We are constantly working to improve our services and make our offerings even …
Web page graphics don’t need to be excellent
Web page graphics are important; they help us get a sense of the organisation of a page, they help us pay attention to specific ideas and they give us a feeling for the kind of website we are on. Even if you are not a visual thinker, graphics on a …
Story telling beats facts online
A German hairdresser is celebrating this morning after winning the “world’s best beard” contest in Norway – a story that is proving hugely popular online. Indeed, it is the second most shared item on the BBC News website, after the story about bomb threats to London. It is evidence taht …
How to succeed online the Mashable way
The twenty-five-year-old Scot, Pete Cashmore, is an Internet superstar; six years ago, aged just 19, he started a humble blog, Mashable, which is now one of the world’s most influential and most widely read websites. This weekend he entertained an exclusive audience of 300 people at Disneyland in Florida at …
Web design psychology – you need to know your vistors first
Lady Gaga has made history and helped us understand a bit more about web design psychology; she has become the first celebrity to have more than 10m followers on Twitter. Whoopee! Of course that means that over 96% of the Twitter world ignore her. And as for the rest of …
Graham Jones on Wikipedia
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Five psychological reasons for blogging
Blogging is, of course, great for business. Indeed, many successful businesses put blogging central to their online activities. There is plenty of evidence which shows that blogging is related to search engine success, social media success and – importantly – financial success. Blogging works. However, there is more to blogging …
The Five Rules of Social Media Etiquette
Leading family law firm Bross Bennett is warning just how damaging digital communications can be if used incorrectly, with detrimental effects going further than recipients and online communities, and right into courts of law. Only this week a US court has slashed maintenance payments to an ex-wife because of her …
Twitter has its best day ever – and it shows what you need to do on your website too
Jemima Khan helped give Twitter its biggest day ever this week. More people logged onto to Twitter to find out about the alleged “superinjunction” than in the short history of this social website. And the person who had Tweeted about her and Jeremy Clarkson – a so-called “Billy Jones” – …
1&1 Dual Hosting secures web projects in two separately located data centres
Nowadays, no company can afford for its homepage to be unavailable. Therefore, 1&1 is the first big hosting provider worldwide to make the double security of geo redundant server technology accessible to budget hosting. This redundancy across locations guarantees maximum availability 365 days a year and has until now mostly …
BBC Radio Berkshire
Just been on BBC Radio Berkshire’s Anne Diamond programme spending a whole hour talking about the Internet. They must have liked me because they invited me back – listen again in a couple of weeks…!