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 [...]

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 [...]

My iPhone had been asking me to upgrade to the new OS5 operating system for weeks. Every time I plugged in to the computer to recharge, up would come the reminder as part of iTunes. As someone who is involved in mobile marketing, it is vital that my hardware runs the most up to date [...]

This week I finally got to do an online local mobile search. You see, there was a tragedy chez Lolly earlier this week when the kettle decided to give up the ghost but, being extraordinarily busy at the moment, I didn’t have time to go and buy a new one so soldiered on for two [...]

Brafton have alerted me to another great infographic from about search engines and local search. This evolution of local search comes from MDG The advent of smart phones has seen the frequency of mobile searches with local intent grow tremendously over the last year with over 77.1 million such searches – that’s 33% of all [...]