Lollipop Local

My iPhone is at it again and this time it won’t let me connect to the internet! After my experience with the camera roll being obscured by the album, the loss of a year’s worth of business contacts when I followed the instructions to upgrade to os5 and then not being able to work with [...]

It was gratifying to read that Google are shipping Dave Burke, one of their senior UK programmers to their headquarters near San Francisco in order to work on better mobile voice command software for Google search on Android. Mobile Voice Command for Google Search on iPhone I didn’t even know that I had mobile voice [...]

I am indebted to The Marketing Pilgrim for drawing my attention to the 2012 survey by AT&T and this graphic about reaching customers. With the news that social media presence for small business had increased on Linked In but gone down on Twitter, it was curious to see that word of mouth is still the [...]

O2, Google et al want to personalise adverts etc. The 02 representative at the recent Google ‘Think Local’ event pointed out the importance of personalising the experience of the end users. He said the idea was to connect the customer to their passion. O2 speak from a position of authority because they have lost customers [...]

Despite the enthusiasm of our American cousins, business sms messaging has been slow to take off, so, why would you want to use text message alerts as a business advertising opportunity in the UK? Text Message Alerts Get Opened More Quickly and More Often Well, according to CTIA.org, it takes 90 minutes for the average [...]

South Korea is the second most hard working people in the world and shopping for food once a week is not top of their list of priorities. So, in order to increase their share of the market, Tesco came up with the idea of virtual shops. They pasted images of the actual shelving units in [...]

Back in May 2011, Dan Zarella published statistics about the use of Facebook on Mobile devices. From those users with open privacy settings, he took a sample of 70,000 Facebook public posts, including videos, links and photos and discovered that almost 33% of those posts were created from mobile devices. And more than 18% of [...]

This week I discovered that there are all sorts of iTunes Windows 7 problems, many of which involve the dreaded BEX error. I wanted to upload some mp3s of webinars that I had missed and listen to them on one of my many long journies. So, having an iPhone, which only allows you to synch [...]

Really enjoyed this article about how to decide whether you are designing your website in the right font Apparently, there is something called the Golden Ratio which helps you to produce the most aesthetically pleasing textual lay out. As Chris Pearson, the designer of Thesis theme, explained to WebProNews, applying the Golden Ratio to typography [...]

I have been informed that a photograph from one of my clients’ websites has been reproduced without permission elsewhere but the person who told me couldn’t remember the website. So, when Working on the Go alerted me to the fact that Google Goggles could be used to search for similar images on the internet, I [...]