The universal future
Ever since Google’s universal search was launched on May 16 2007 search results have become a lot more interesting. With many choices of media type from just one results page it’s fair to say the world of search (Google) is hotting up.
So after the first 18th months what do we think? And more importantly what does the universal future hold for searchers, agencies and companies?
Posted by Henry, 23 December 2008 , 4:26 pm
Microsoft: ‘We feel a strong obligation to customers with IE8′
Internet Explorer 8, which is already available in Beta and is expected to be officially released next year, is the next iteration of Microsoft's market-leading web browser. Oliver Hurley catches up with Internet Explorer senior product manager James Pratt to quiz him on web standards compliancy, why IE7 took so long and, erm, the significance of X-UA-Compatible header tags…
What are the main things you want to achieve with Internet Explorer 8?
Our goals are to create a faster, easier web browsing experience for the things users do every day on the web. We provide features that allow users to reach beyond the page and bring the variety of online services to life and deliver the most secure and reliable version of Internet Explorer to date. more…
Posted by Oliver, 11 December 2008 , 3:18 pm
Browser wars
Internet Explorer 8, Firefox 3. No, that's not the result of a non-league football match with no goalies but the names of the browsers fighting for control of the way we view the internet. And, as Oliver Hurley discovers, Microsoft isn't having things all its own way
When Firefox 3 was launched on 17 June, the free web browser generated 8,002,530 unique downloads in a day. It’s a hugely impressive figure that constituted a new Guinness world record, albeit in a category that didn’t previously exist.
For the Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit organisation behind Firefox, successfully encouraging so many users to download the new browser on day one was a canny way to grab headlines. But the release of Firefox 3 also more…
Posted by Oliver, 8 December 2008 , 2:49 pm
Do politicians and bureaucrats even know the world is changing?
Recently I saw some 50 or 60 new Yellow Pages directories piled up in the reception area of a smart popular business centre. It would have made a great photo opportunity but before I could organise a camera they had been collected by the recycling truck. The moral of the story obviously, who needs a great big cumbersome book when you can go online and find what and who you want so easily?
Groceries? Who needs that Saturday morning hassle when you can answer the door to the delivery man, fill up the fridge and the larder and then do something really interesting for the day instead?
The UK government is obsessed with data based on legacy thinking, particularly consumer spending on the high street. When do they include commercial data from the internet as standard in the general economic reporting? more…
Posted by Roger Allen, 28 November 2008 , 11:52 am
2400 business cards, no glue and a lunchtime or two?
One of the issues we had when re-branding Zeta was what to do with our old business cards. We had hundreds of cards with outdated information styled in the old brand, so instead of just throwing them away I tasked myself to research into different uses for old business cards.
I was quite amazed at the number of ideas online. Some were good, some were bad, and some were just strange.
Here are a few ideas I came across: more…
