Successful bloggers are helpful people

Babies prefer helpful people to the nastier kind. New research from Yale University’s Infant Cognition Center shows that in almost all cases babies as young as six months old show a distinct preference for things which help others. In the experiments, puppets and objects are shown trying to achieve something, …

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ITV News

ITV News (ITN as was) has asked me to be interviewed about the 5th Birthday of YouTube and why we have all gone video crazy…!

Online shops fail to predict customer behaviour

The Political Editor of Sky News, Adam Boulton, is now a YouTube sensation after his live TV spat with Labour Party adviser, Alistair Campbell. “Don’t keep saying what I think,” yelled Mr Bolton, “don’t keep telling me what I think.” There is no love lost between these two anyway; but …

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Email marketers taken to task for failing and being wrong

We love email – so why don’t more companies get it right? People like receiving emails. In spite of all the hype about spam and “phishing attacks”, email is still one of the most loved aspects of the Internet. Indeed, recent research by the Direct Marketing Association shows that people …

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You Can Judge an eBook by its Cover

eBooks are one of the fastest-growing areas of the publishing industry, with the Amazon Kindle and Sony Reader providing a platform for readers to access their favorite books in electronic format. Forrester Research estimates that by the end of this year, U.S. consumers will have bought a total of 3 …

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1&1 helps fight misuse of domain names

More and more frequently, imitations of well-known domains are misused for various, sometimes criminal, activities.  The target of the masterminds is primarily companies, and the effect on the victims’ image is often tremendous and can lead to a loss of customer trust. In the fight against the increasing misuse of …

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WordPress is wrong and graphic designers are right

A standard WordPress page does not help your website visitors remember what is important WordPress is one of the most popular pieces of software around. Indeed, on WordPress.com there are over 11m blogs – and as for the number of websites that are built using WordPress.org, well it’s anyone’s guess. …

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Coalitions are not just for politics

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and Prime Minister David Cameron seal their relationship in public as this still from the BBC News website shows The wedding guests were all arranged in the garden and then, as the sun shone and the birds sang, in walked the “happy couple”. Smiling, confident …

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Consumers Worldwide Change How They Communicate, Becoming More Fragmented, More Mobile and More Connected through Social Media

Consumers around the world are changing how they seek and share information, according to new research that Survey Sampling International (SSI) conducted among adults in the US, UK, France, Spain and Japan. Media multi-tasking — such as simultaneously searching Web sites, emailing and talking to someone — is prevalent in …

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Niche blogs do not mean success

The people of Newbury, in Berkshire, must be keen grocery shoppers. In spite of the fact that this small market town has a population of only 30,000 people, Tesco has just opened it’s third store there. There is a massive Tesco Extra a mile or so South, there is a …

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5 Reasons to Build a Facebook Page For Your Business

By Tahire Khan Creating a Facebook fan page only takes minutes to do and it is an incredibly cost effective way to build an audience of targeted and interested users, and what’s more you can communicate with them regularly for free. If you’re serious about social media, here are my …

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