We don’t usually post tech based stories related to computer software or hardware. But it has come to our attention from the people at Silicon News that Microsoft will not offer cheaper upgrades to the European market for their new operating system, Windows 7.

A news story broke this week of a serious social media faux pas by Habitat. Find out how not to promote your business using Twitter.

You may have many reasons for promoting your own name online as a brand. We look at the issues that surround this and how you can manage your online reputation on the major search engines.

If you have read our page on what is social media, you’ll know (or perhaps you knew already) one of the main reasons for investing time in social media is engagement with your customers. Dell’s example sets a good benchmark on how a company integrates social media tools into their business. Their next challenge is to [...]

Twitter has become mass market. Questions have been asked and debated around Twitter’s retention rate, but numbers are high and it can be a great way to get relevant followers and traffic to your site. Our advice is to use it responsibly, as mass-following or spam like activities are like to upset people and do [...]

Thought I would share this great article on 50 iPhone apps for web developers. Thanks to FreelanceSw for the tweet. Our favourites so far are the WordPress and Font apps! Let us know what your favourites are!

It’s not uncommon in literature for the writer’s identity to be masked. It can serve many benefits; studies suggest that people are less judgemental of an article if they do not know the identity of the author. Some may distrust the source or validity of the article; it’s a subjective thing. Blogging has brought about [...]

The UK government, as I am sure all governments are, is concerned about the digital divide. The divide of people who are technically competent and the technically inferior. The Digital Britain report was published last Tuesday, a road map set out by the government for the digital future of Britain. We won’t discuss the ins-and-outs [...]

When people suddenly, years after it became mainstream, realised that search engine optimisation (SEO) and pay per click (PPC) strategies could be joined together, these was a big fuss. Then everyone realised that it wasn’t anything significant, you just needed to ensure that your SEO team and PPC team were working together. Of course this [...]

The launch of Facebook vanity URLs has had the social media industry alive with buzz. Find out what all the fuss is about.