The Web Guy, Online Insights for Business
Could this be the rival tablet that is going to get the Android platform some market share? The recently released Samsung Galaxy Tab with a 10.1 inch screen, dual core processor, front and rear cameras is certainly a great looking piece of kit. They haven’t held back in their creativity when it comes to promoting [...]
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Facebook own Social Media, Amazon own E-commerce, Apple own the Tablet market, Google own Search; well we’re pretty much done everyone else may as well go home. That’s probably how it felt to many of the competitors to these online Super-Powers; but wait it a minute they all compete with one another. They all also [...]
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Short-termism in Business really frustrates me. I have been quite used to the fact that many wrongly see that what I do for a living as cheap and simple. Well, so is riding a bike, but did you take part in the Tour de France this year? Online gets such bad PR inside Business because [...]
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A week in which Facebook promised to change the face of Social Media, Google+ opened the platform to all comers, and my eldest daughter got her first Saturday job. Where does the Online World go from here; Facebook has truly drawn a line in the sand, challenging others to cross it. Frankly I don’t believe [...]
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So Google+ goes public, open to anyone that now wishes to sign-up. Many will, but many more will not. Personally, I love the idea of Google+, so many of Google’s web based applications make sense, are easier to use and more often than not, user centric. The problem I face, like many others, is one of [...]
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Social Media is evolving fast; competition and the search for ROI are driving platforms forward rapidly. This week has seen some significant announcements from the 3 major players in the space. Facebook is becoming more like Google as it trys to fend of the Internet Giant from it’s sacred territory. Dependant on privacy settings, you [...]
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I witnessed an amazing thing this week; I saw a publishing company less than a year old get a book into 7th place on the Amazon best sellers list in 2 days. This was no ordinary company though, this was Seth Godin’s Domino Project. A publishing company, in partnership with Amazon, with the aim of [...]
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We all go through life with perceptions of what things are and what things are not, how things should be done and how they should not. The use of Social Media is no different. Some believe there are defined rules for how Social should be used, that there is an etiquette to be followed. There are [...]
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It’s official the summer holiday season has now finished, for me at least. Leading up to the summer break I had been hitting the blog and social media quite hard. My daily blogging experiment finally gave way part way through July. Even though I had all good intentions to blog whilst on vacation, it never [...]
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We don’t get things right 100% of the time, we all make mistakes. It’s about how we deal with those mistakes that defines us, rather than the mistakes themselves. The online world lays our mistakes bear. We are an open book for every potential and existing customer to draw an opinion about us. Social Media [...]
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