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Dying Online

by Luke Sherry | May 20th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Communications, Marketing

I read an interesting article a few years ago on what happens to your ‘web presence’ after you die. Cheerful? No. But it got me thinking. Just how many virtual versions of you are there? How many presences do you and your brand have online?

When we started out in web, a ‘web presence’ tended to refer to an entity’s public website. The old ‘dub-dub-dub’ site. Build it, upload it. Count the hits.

Online marketing is much more complex today, although the principles remain the same. Eyeballs. Who’s eyeballing your brand or entity online?  Who’s looking at you, when and where? And what are they saying? Once you answer those questions, you’ll quickly realise that your online presence has the capacity to stretch well beyond your painstakingly worded, carefully designed, search engine optimised website. More »

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Lynx and other animals

by Tibor Halasz | April 29th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Future, Technology, Useability

Why text browsers are still important.

Pamela Anderson was 15 years younger the first time I saw a picture in a graphical web browser. That was an early version of Netscape Navigator on an X-Windows terminal when it took nearly half an hour to download one single image from the World Wide Web.

Before that time there was a long period when the text-only browsers were popular as they were more or less the only option to access any information on the internet. More »

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