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Archive for the 'PPC Advertising' CategoryWorld’s most expensive domain name to go up for saleThe theory that sex sells has never been disproved, many of the most visited sites on the internet that do not have any affiliation to searching or social networking have something to do with sex. So it doesn’t come as a surprise that the domain name ‘Sex.com’ is the most expensive in internet history. Well, get your chequebooks out because it is going up for auction.
Read the rest of this entry » Healthy growth for domain name registrations in 2009Despite the global economic downturn causing mass panic as we plunge into recession the ever reliable internet has been quietly going about its business and making some very good progress at the same time.
Read the rest of this entry » Google take on TwitterGoogle have announced that they are going to use their Gmail service to take on Twitter by adding a ‘status update’ capability to it. Much like the popular social networking site Twitter, Google is attempting to provide the ever increasing users of their e-mailing service with the ability to give up to the minute updates on whatever it is they are doing in their lives at the precise moment.
Read the rest of this entry » Europe revolts against IE6The French government have joined their German counterparts in recommending that citizens don’t use Internet Explorer. The government issued a statement today, two days after Germany, warning French people to avoid all versions of the browser, both statements appear to have been prompted by the online posting of the malicious code implicated in the recent attacks on Google, to which IE6 is thought to be particularly vulnerable.
Read the rest of this entry » Samsung to build iPlayer into new TVsAlmost since the launch of the BBC’s industry leading iPlayer portal, technology insiders have been predicting that the system would eventually be installed in TVs. Though few thought that it would happen quite this soon. Samsung have announced that the BBC iPlayer will be one of the first apps to be installed on their new range of televisions, with the first ones being rolled out as early as this year.
Read the rest of this entry » Xbox Live used to recruit SpiesGCHQ, the organisation which collates the UK’s intelligence data, has launched a recruitment campaign on Xbox Live to target what it calls ‘quick thinking 18 to 34 year-olds’. Through its use of banners, video clips and static advertisements, the campaign highlights some of the key roles within GCHQ that it hopes will appeal to gamers. Perhaps unsurprisingly, that mainly consists of IT and technical roles.
Read the rest of this entry » Times to switch to paid model from Q1 2010James Harding, the Editor in chief of the Times newspaper, has revealed that his publication’s online arm, Times Online will begin charging for access to content in Spring 2010. According to Harding the prospective payment model will include two different methods of payment, a 24 hour pass, and a subscription model. Details are still sketchy but the one day pass is expected to cost about as much as a copy of the print edition which currently stands at 90p.
Read the rest of this entry » iPlayer coming to FreesatA limited roll-out of the BBC’s iPlayer service will begin on free satellite TV provider, Freesat at the end of this month, with a full service scheduled to be launched at the start of next year. The new service will allow people to access the full iPlayer site through their TVs rather than their computers.
Read the rest of this entry » Guardian Jobs Site compromisedThe Guardian newspaper emailed around half a million of its users this weekend to alert them to the fact that the Guardian Jobs website site was subjected to what they have called ‘a sophisticated and deliberate attack’. The Jobs arm of the guardian boasts about 10 million new unique users per year, many of whom upload personal information and CVs, so any hack is a very serious breach indeed. However, the Guardian claim to have stopped ‘the hack was stopped before it was completed’.
Read the rest of this entry » Spotify still not making MoneyDaniel Elk, one of the men behind internet radio service, Spotify has drawn attention to the continuing difficulties of making money from online music by hitting out at the perception that popular online music companies should be making money immediately.
Read the rest of this entry » iPhone is coolest Brand in BritainThe iPhone has been named the most desirable brand in Britain in a yearly list of the twenty products that British consumers most want to own. The touch screen device overtook the Aston Martin as the most desirable product in Britain, moving up from its second place position last year.
Read the rest of this entry » BBC calling iPlayer PS3 Launch a successAccording to reports, the BBC is ‘delighted’ with the success of its iPlayer service following the launch of a PS3 version as part of the most recent firmware update.
Read the rest of this entry » Web Design School: Tips for Writing good Web Copy#3. House Style Another thing to remember is house style. It may seem like a chore but you really do need to sit down at some point and decide what kind of style you’re going for, is it friendly and informal or corporate and professional, there’s nothing more jarring than reading dry professional facts and figures on one page and informal, matey copy on the next. Also decide on the site’s interpretation of grammar and stick to it – does internet have a capital I? Do we use colons or dashes for definitions? This is all stuff that needs to be worked out in order to maintain a consistent tone.
Read the rest of this entry » Is Green Dam’s influence Spreading West?A new browser specifically designed for safe searching has been launched in Russia and is provoking a lot of negative feedback on forums, blogs, etc. The ‘Gogul’ browser is designed as a tool to allow children search the internet without being exposed to harmful content. Nothing particularly controversial or even unusual about that, the issues concern the scope of sites that are allowable.
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