Archive for 2007
Metafocus in China
Alan Clements, Metafocus MD recently returned from a business trip to Southwest China. He was part of the East Midlands Trade Mission organised by the Leicester based East Midlands- China Business Bureau and UK Trade and Investment (UKTI). Councillor David Parsons, chair of East Midlands Regional Assembly and leader of Leicestershire County [...]
Holly Cottage – Peak District B&B
 Holly Cottage is a traditional English B&B in Derbyshire. The romantic bed and breakfast is located on the Chatsworth Estate just one mile from Chatsworth House in the unspoilt village of Pilsley. The village has many old traditional limestone cottages, some lovely gardens, the popular Devonshire Arms pub and the Chatsworth Farm [...]
Planet Nottingham – 12th October 2007
October 15th is Blog Action Day. This years theme is the Environment, where people are asked to blog about something relating to any environmental issues. We’d like to take the opportunity to tell you about an environmentally friendly event which is taking place in Nottingham this weekend. Planet Nottingham is an event focussed on [...]
Vouchermania.com
One website we’ve recently started visiting regularly in the office is vouchermania.com. We all like a bargain every now and again! The site is “designed specifically to help you make savings, whilst at the same time promoting the products and services of local and national businesses.†The site originally started off in [...]
Required: Web Developer – Nottingham
We are seeking an experienced web production person. You will be fluent in X/HTML and structural CSS and able to build sites conforming to W3C and WAI Level 2 standards. Experience with Javascript and working with content management and e-commerce systems is also required. Experience of working within ASP and PHP development environments would be [...]
Liberty Industrial – Recruitment Agency in Nottingham
One of our client’s websites that has recently undergone a bit of a transformation and update is Liberty Industrial. Liberty Industrial is a Mansfield recruitment agency who also have an offices in Redditch. In the past the company have mainly focussed on helping organisations recruit for jobs in Nottingham and jobs in Redditch. Due to the [...]
Mahalo.com
One thing we noticed online recently has been the launch of mahalo.com. What’s that then? Well, it’s a new “human powered†search engine. Launched in May 2007, the idea behind it is that by using human editors it will make search results that are more relevant to the end user. Mahalo describe themselves as “a [...]
More Wikipedia Controversy
Now, on a personal level, I'm a big fan of Wikipedia. I think it is one of the most organised and accessible information sites out there but because of the very nature of its editability, it is very open to abuse. However, the scale of abuse appears to be somewhat larger than expected!! An American student, Virgil Griffith has developed a [...]
Wikipedia & Google double standards
There has been a lot of discussion recently regarding double-standards and even corruption from both Wikipedia and Google. To read some controversial comments, have a look at Ross Dunn's recent article about Wikipedia and also Aaron Wall's Google-based tirade. Both of these make strong cases questioning the working practices of each company, [...]
Using You Tube as an Online Marketing Tool
We've all heard about Google Vertical Search and no doubt you will have seen items like videos appearing in your Google search results. We're using that to our advantage now by adding videos to YouTube for our clients wherever we can. Our latest efforts can bee seen below for www.adrenalinjungle.com and www.paintball-jungle.co.uk. Luckily both [...]
