I stumbled across this site: The Email Standards Project, and I whole heartedly agree with their philosophy. I’ve worked with designers for a couple of years now, and feel their pain when they design a beautiful piece of email marketing, only for Outlook et al to turn it into something that resembles Hillary Clinton. It’s… Continue reading

We’re thinking of moving to ‘do follow’ rather than the standard WordPress ‘no-follow’. I’m a little apprehensive at the thought of opening the floodgates, but what we give out in link love, we hope to gain in contributions to the conversation. Has anyone had experience – good or bad?

A few weeks ago a friend emailed to say she’d seen a Google car just south of Birmingham with a “weird aerial” on top of it- I wondered what it was. As I was walking out of my house (in Manchester) this morning I spotted a black Google car with a rotating camera on top… Continue reading

The ideas-men at Microsoft have had another brainwave to help their fledgling search engine, Live Search gain some search traffic, bribe users. Live search has not enjoyed much success and has been failing to take any of Google or Yahoos traffic. The new scheme to coax users involves giving ‘SearchPerk’ loyalty points (up to 25… Continue reading

As a follow up to Katrina post in November last year where she lambasted the Kylie Konnect website (but really just a gratuitous way of getting a lovely bottom photo on the front page of the blog), I’ve spotted in the news today that the Kylie Konnect website has won a BT digital music award… Continue reading