There has been the realisation more recently that there is an opportunity to make a more professional and polished impression on customers with a branded app, preloaded with presentation materials, video content, testimonials and social media feeds.
Continue readingVine, Twitter and the attraction of limitation
Posted on 8, Feb by John Auger
Recently acquired by Twitter, and with a newly released app sitting pretty in the top ten iOS apps of the week, Vine has joined an already crowded marketplace when it comes to photo and video sharing services available on iOS. But what are the implications of enforcing limits on how users can create?
Continue readingIn Search of The Board Portal
Posted on 3, Jan by Kishen Hawkins
Most organisations have already embraced technology to support different areas of their business – from email and CRM, to accounting and ERP; good technology just makes good sense. What is your organisation doing to put technology to use in support of your board?
Continue readingAnti Free Software Movement?
Posted on 21, Dec by Matthew Jensen
Wind the clock back a decade and we recall the unbridled enthusiasm with which we embraced Google and it’s unparalleled search and most of all it’s freeness and ethical motto “don’t be evil” Google have been at the spearhead of the opensource moment since Sun Microsystems go bought by the decidedly not free Oracle.
Continue readingGoogle Maps, Back in Black
Posted on 14, Dec by Matthew Jensen
As of this week, Google Maps is back on the iPhone. Hurrah! Actually Google’s products have been a little flaky recently, the reliability of Google apps must be called into questions however the new iPhone app goes a long way to restoring faith in the Greatest internet brand.
Continue readingWhat is This… A Website For Ants?
Posted on 16, Nov by Matthew Jensen
Did you know that at least 30% of your emails are opened on a mobile device, most commonly an iPhone? You want your recipients to click those links on your marketing email right? Well then you better make sure that the website that they lead to is mobile friendly.
Continue readingThe Nostalgic Surfer
Posted on 25, Jun by Matthew Jensen
When I first visited London, it was a large city like any other I had seen, not at all like I expected, in my head it should have been more like York or Edinburgh.
Continue readingWhat You MUST do Online in 2012!
Posted on 18, May by Matthew Jensen
The world is a buzz with jargon relating to developments in the online space. For those of us in the industry, it is all very exciting.
Continue readingWhat Can Apps Do For My Business?
Posted on 30, Apr by Matthew Jensen
The question is simple enough but the answer is not the same to all people. You see, mobiles and tablets that for the last few years have been designed to run 3rd party software downloaded by the user. These have been colloquially called “apps” for some time which as you guessed it is short for applications.
Continue readingThe Future of Apps
Posted on 12, Apr by Matthew Jensen
In the last few weeks we have seen the high profile launch of the Instagram for Android app and the subsequent buy out of Instagram by Facebook for a cool $1 billion. It may be a coincidence but it seems to me that Facebook felt that for them to continue to own photo-sharing, they had to own Instagram and the android app brought Instagram to far too many.
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