Blog entries posted during 2012

According to Gartner’s latest figures issued earlier this month, Smartphone sales reached 115m units worldwide and account for 26% of all mobile phone sales. It goes without saying that if your customers are adopting smartphones and spending...

2012 is shaping up to be quite a ride. We'll be using our mobiles to pay for our morning coffee, see the demise of apps and start getting 'phygital'. 2011 proved to be an eventful year for digital marketers with scandals, acquisitions and IPOs. Fr...

I'm often asked by clients and colleagues about the potential pitfalls around SEO when it comes to site migration. Here I share a few things to consider. Primary concern should be at least maintaining (and preferably improving) the commercial...

Huge news broke on Tuesday 10th January when Google announced the roll out of it’s integration of social network Google+ into Google Search. This is the culmination of months of work, and a final decision to cement their belief in ‘social signals’...

Monday 30 th January 2012 and Alterian have officially become part of SDL. This is personally very exciting for me, not least as I am an Alterian alumnus like my good friend and ex-colleague  SDL’s Ian Truscott , but more importantly, it raises th...

In this two part blog post I will look at the process of selling Quality Assurance (QA) to the project stakeholders and in particular the client. In the second part I’ll sell the QA process, but for now we will begin by selling the QA Professional...

It’s nice to remember sometimes that this thing we do, called user experience, isn’t always about what we see on a screen. Architects and city planners get it, casinos are purely Machiavellian about it, and retailers worship it. Unfortunately the...

Ahhh, the homely QR Code. Becoming ever more prevalent, and yet ask your average Joe on the street what they are, or point one out and ask how they work, and you’re more likely to get a blank look than a Wikipedia style response. For those playing...

The question was recently posed to me: What are the mandatories; the absolute basics I need in place for my online store? What is the base platform I need to work from to make my online retail offering a success? With the Australian eCommerce mark...

Amidst the oranges, cerveza, sunshine and flag-waving protesters , Barcelona this week played host to Mobile World Congress ( #MWC12 ).  Upwards of 60,000 delegates from around the world met at Fira de Barcelona to discuss the latest trends and...

A few nights ago I was out with a journalist friend for a wee drink and a general catch up and of course after we talked about house prices, sport and the joys of offspring we inevitably ended up talking about journalism and the state of newspaper...

The Internet has the power to dispense sublime good or evil to the world; we all know that. From connecting loved ones across great distances and giving suppressed nations a voice, to the unscrupulous phisher trying to scam your granny out of her...

I didn’t know what to expect on my first trip to the legendary Music, Film and Interactive festival, South by South West in Austin, Texas, USA. Before I left London, everyone I met who knew about the event was emphatic, ‘it’s gonna to be, like,...

What do artists, brands, technologists, filmmakers, and musicians all have in common? Two weeks of the best mashup our industries could want, I’m talking about none other than SXSW, hosted in Austin, TX. For a first timer, SXSW is completely...

A landmark decision was made last week by Microsoft’s ASP.NET web development team. They announced that three key technologies used to develop web applications, ASP.NET MVC, Web API and Razor would be made fully Open Source 1 . This is a big step...

Social networks leverage our time online and what they know about our interests to sell us as – our eyeballs and our attention – as their "product". For most of us, this is a fair trade for the services we receive in return. We’re seemingly happy ...

A colleague asked me over coffee, “What do you do?” I sipped my full fat cappuccino and reflected on the question. Sipping coffee and reflecting go well together so I may have milked the situation a bit more than was required. “Hello!” he...