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Faceless People… Revealed!

Here at the Engine House we can see through the speculation and reveal with the minutest amount of digging that the ‘Faceless People’ are a cleverly devised marketing ploy from

The Future for Nokia?

Check this video from Nokia explaining the Morph concept…

Want to know more? Click here for link to the BBC Story or click here for the Nokia Site.

It’s not how big it is – It’s what you do with it that counts

Making money online is not about having the biggest site out there but giving your potential customers the very best online experience they can get.

The task of building the perfect website is an ongoing one. Continuous monitoring, tweaking and updating is the only way to ensure your site is the very best it can be.

Here are ten tips to improve your website…

web cart abandonment – why it happens and what you can do about it

If you are a typical e-commerce owner I expect you would like to ensure the highest levels of returns from your site. You may have worked really hard on SEO strategies, paid for sophisticated features and bespoke programming, brought in designers, copywriters and the works all to lose the sale only moments away from the money hitting your account.

The best free software, online apps and lists on the Web 2.0.

There has never been a better time to explore the many free applications, software, online services and networks available on the web.

With many companies, organisations and individuals generating new content all the time it is worth taking the time to see how each may improve the way you do business, research or networking online.

In this post I have attempted to catalogue some of the many sources I have found useful in my role researching and advising companies at uknetweb on the possibilities presented by Web 2.0.

Some of the links refer to other list blogs cataloging the best of the web, others are my own selections and some are link to directories I found useful when browsing the web.

www.dontclick.it – cosmetically lovely, fundamentally flawed.

Here at uknetweb we are all for pushing the boundaries of web development and coming up with ingenious new ways for customers to interact with businesses online. We have produced a number of European and World firsts for our clients, not driven by technical superiority but from a good understanding of how people do business online.

When we first heard about the dontclick.it project we were excited to see what it had to offer and whether this might just be the start of an entirely new way for websites to work. Driven by my passion (and if I’m honest geeky desire) to search out the best of Web 2.0 projects and emerging internet technologies I first came across dontclick.it through a random Stumble and at first site was pretty impressed.

Not wanting to stop at my own first impressions I felt it was time to let the site do the rounds of the office and see just what the designers, techies and normal polite members of society thought about a site that doesn’t need (or allow) to be clicked.

In defence of the Web 2.0 Democracy

Social-media sites like Wikipedia and Digg are celebrated as shining examples of Web democracy, places built by millions of Web users who all act as writers, editors, and voters. In reality, a small number of people are running the show. According to researchers in Palo Alto,

hats off to Orange…

I just wanted to submit a quick post acknowledging Orange’s outstanding new ‘Unlimited’ site. For those of you who are yet to visit it check it out here.

will porn lead the way…again?

Time and time again technology advances have been driven by human desires to access pornography in more and more private ways. Whatever your view on it, countless advances have been driven by pornographers and their customers.

From the VHS win over the Betamax, through to the development of DVD players, interactive TV, Subscription TV services and of course the internet, pornographers and their customers have helped push technology forward.Now we sit in the midst of the Web 2.0 world, will we see a similar drive from the industry to help promote the ideals and principles of the Web 2.0 project? (Click for link to 2002 Story from The Observer)