The future of networking?

As you may have noticed, I’m starting up a pretty informal, weekly networking event called Coffee and Tech. The objective is to pull together a diverse bunch of people into a Google+ Hangout (essentially a free video-conferencing system for up to 10 people). The coffee part is mainly because I find it almost impossible to function if I haven’t had a couple of cups by then. The Tech...

Cookies and your website

If you own a website then you should be aware of the EU Cookie Law that came into effect as far back as May of last year (2011). In the past the EU has been accused of creating lakes of wine and mountains of beef, but this time there is no food involved, but rather a bit of a hash of legislation about relatively innocuous text files. What exactly is a cookie? There is a rather long description of...

Google Search – the Game Changer

Yesterday Google announced a change to the way in which search results are presented. “not another one” would be my best guess at the common reaction to this news, if people even noticed at all. After all, Google have been tweaking lots of things recently, mainly related to integrating the diverse (but shrinking) range of products into a coherent whole. Actually, coherent may be too...

3 New Year Resolutions for your Website

So, 2012 is upon us, Olympic year at last. Like most, I haven’t any tickets for the Olympics, at least not yet. But I live in hope. Most of us have something else in common too, New Year’s Resolutions! I’ve gone for the fairly typical personal stuff – shift a bit of weight, exercise more, drink less, etc. Work-wise, I want to make sure my website is doing its job as well...

Social Networks for Business Pt 3 – Making it easy

I’m sitting here writing this in front of the TV – watching a documentary on Steve Jobs. It’s very apparent that he was very good at seeing the business opportunities in some very geeky areas of technology. His real genius, though, was in hiding the complexity of that technologyfrom the person using it, and presenting instead a very slick and user-friendly interface. So how does...