If there’s one thing that the demise of HMV has reminded us it’s that change is automatic but progress is not. The company stood still and acted as if the digital revolution wasn’t happening. It could be argued that their executives acted with arrogance, clinging to...

A business model often found online Combines ‘free’ and ‘premium’ Users benefit from free features but must pay for additional features Many companies offering freemium products increase their user base by giving incentives for referring friends More successful than...

When Google ranks pages after crawling and indexing them, it does so according to more than 200 different factors. The three most important are: Content Backlinks (links that point to the page from other websites) RankBrain, Google’s machine-learning technology No one...

What catches my eye (apart from short people with umbrellas): When content is shared an enormous number of times on social media. It must be good When a website is written and designed without good UX in mind:   Posts on social media by people promoting their...

A brief post about a great book: The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future * *affiliate link (definition)

If you ever get paid in a foreign currency or want to spend in a foreign currency when you’re abroad, something I’ve learned recently is that it pays not to rely on your bank, who will charge more than they need to and give you a poor exchange rate. After a bit of...

Considering inted briefly and what its aims might be, I can think of two: To get kids saying: “It’s the best lesson in school.” To help kids to think creatively for themselves and the benefit of others

I saw this on Instagram recently: It had more than 100 likes when I saw it but this post made me question the information within it: Compared to – and according to – what? It reminded me of two things:   The old Whiskas slogan, “Eight out of ten cats prefer...

I really like this site as it’s a great way to avoid paying more than you need to for phone calls to customer service departments (and sometimes you can find a number that gets you through to someone who can help more quickly).I also don’t mind that its...

Webinars are great. Having said that, I haven’t been on one for about five years. They’re basically great ways to learn on the internet. The word itself combines ‘seminar’ and ‘web’, and in my experience they’re a set of slides with a live speaker or two over the top...