The buzz going on at the moment is all about how the US Government is attempting to control internet piracy. A new bill called SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) which has been put before the US House of Representatives, has sparked a fierce battle between the creative industries and the free speech lobbyists.
If passed in its present form this bill would affect sites like Google, PayPal, YouTube and even Facebook. Thanks to an infographic by Lumin Consulting, we can see exactly what is being proposed... [View the infographic in this blog post]
And just because today is Friday, we thought we'd share this picture with everyone.
How do you spot a serious Mac fan? Well easy really... he's the chap who casually takes his 27" iMac into a Starbucks coffee shop!!
Hope you enjoyed that as much as we did.
The team at Umbraco HQ have been working flatout to bring us a version of Umbraco 5 (Beta) to download and play with just before the festive break! So far it looks exactly the same to us from the admin users point of view. The majority of the changes are behind the scenes, where it is now using technologies like MVC, LINQ, RAZOR to make the magic happen.
Umbraco 5 has entered BETA phase on 11 November 2011! This means it's 85% completed and that the Umbraco Team is getting closer to a feature complete V5. The Beta tag means that many of the exisiting features from Umbraco 4 are now available in Umbraco 5 Beta, but there still may be some V4 features missing - but don't worry as these will appear as the Beta phase moves closer to launch day! You can follow their progress here...
The Cape Times, today, publiahed an article about how the voters
from the Name Your Hood website are divided between "A Colonial
reference" versus a "post-apartheid buzzword" in
the heavy voting that took place for the naming of Hood #6.
We understand how important it is for client's to improve their
digital presence. There are some great tools available to help you
do so, amongst which, is Google Analytics. Google analytics is a
great way to monitor your website's traffic and and to know where
and what website visitors are searching for. Google have introduced
something new to the world of analytics software - Real-Time
Tracking (beta)! Now you can literally monitor what's happening on
your site as and when it happens.
The 36 Boutiques New summer collection campaign has just been
launched. 36 Boutiques launched this campaign to create awareness
through a fun animated "strip the look" idea of their new summer
collection and to drive drive traffic to their main site.
Google has just recently allowed for the creation of Google+
Brand or Business pages. These are similar to the business profiles
you can setup in Facebook but now you can make them on Google+. Do
we think that Google+ Brand Pages will trump Facebook Business
Profiles? Hard to say at this point and a little too early, but we
need to remember that Google is a Seach Engine,
