Monthly Archives: December 2007

Creative Brighton

In my earlier posts I have covered some Brighton based businesses, facilitators and entrepreneurs. Often individuals who make this possible i.e. designers, programmers, account managers etc are not covered. I thought it will be good to maybe give them a mention
One such group of very talented designers are Callender Creates and Subcircle creative, [...]

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Bye bye Netscape

The hottest news on the blogosphere at the moment is that Netscape, my first browser, will be discontinued. AOL who acquired Netscape back in 1998 for $4.2 billion, found there weren’t enough Netscape users.
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Statistics show that Netscape’s usage is less than 1%. If you look on W3Cschools for browser usage, Netscape doesn’t appear in 2007
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BBC Beta very 2.0

BBC launched beta version of BBC.co.uk. You have all the 2.0 features like:

Dragging and dropping your favourite channels

Ajax opening and closing of menu’s

Customising your home page

Colours reflect tab you have selected + drag and drop features

Over all a very modern, 2.0 styled website. Very good move in my opinion !
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Walmart offering Search Engine Marketing (true)

I wrote earlier that Walmart offering SEM might be a hoax. Apparently its not as reported by Karl Ribas:
Karl says: “ Sam’s Choice Cola and Sam’s Choice Drinking Water… there’s a brand new product offering hitting the shelves. Introducing Sam’s Choice Pay Per Click services”

Wow its actually true

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Walmart (ASDA) offering Search Engine Marketing. Hoax?

Walmart or ASDA (ASDA’s UK website) as we know it in the UK, are offering Search Engine Marketing as a product. The product can be seen on Sam’s club. I was well surprised when Tesco’s started offering mobile phones but this is really, taking it to the next level.

I haven’t done any independent [...]

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Social networking in flash Rocks!

As a programmer I never liked flash but thats just a personal thing. For a web user its not really an issue, unless its mobile phone/PDA they are using or if flash is not installed on their computers (highly unlikely now).
My major worries with Flash have been search engines not being able to spider [...]

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Kwiqq 2007 and ambitions for ‘08

If you have been following kwiqq you might know that we began on 15th Jan 2007. In just a year we have seen some amazing results. We met some fantastic people in the community: Brighton (BNM), London, California, European etc.
I would like to thank everyone for being supportive and accepting funny accent multicultural (Raj) and [...]

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Badoo soon in the UK

If you are in mainland Europe between the age of 17-40 years its likely that you have heard of Badoo.com .

Badoo is an online dating community popular in Latin America, Spain, France, Italy etc. Whats so special about it is its interface. Very clever use of Flash and Ajax to give users a very delightful [...]

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Photobucket now integrated into Myspace

If you are a Myspace user you should have used (or atleast heard of) photobucket like several times. Photobucket allows users to upload their pictures and videos. Users can then embed them into their myspace profile using the code.

Myspace bought photobucket in May 2007 for £150M. Finally they decided to integrate it into myspace. A [...]

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