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08
MAY
HTML5 in the Headlines
08 MAY 2012 | Posted in HTML5, internet, semantic web, web 3.0 | Author Alex McLachlanIt's not often that a technical subject like HTML5 hits the headlines, so I was interested to see that a BBC article "HTML5 takes the internet by storm" was in today's top 10 most read articles.
HTML5 will include a number of new features such as video and dynamic graphics allowing animation without Flash plug-ins and semantic web mark-up.
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FEB
Mobile Web to replace Apps
13 FEB 2012 | Posted in apps, HTML5, internet, mobile, website | Author Alex McLachlan |
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Further to my previous post "Mobile web, mobile apps and mobile commerce", web usability expert Jakob Nielsen predicts today that mobile web will become preferred over apps in the long term.
Currently, developing apps for different mobile platforms provides the best user experience if you can afford it (ie if the expected return justifies the expense). In contrast, web content formatted for mobile devices is currently the cheaper approach, but often doesn't provide the richness of user interface that apps do. The increasing use of mobile phones and tablets is leading to more companies reaching the point where investing in apps becomes worthwhile.
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DEC
Technology Predictions for 2012
28 DEC 2011 | Posted in CMS, CRM, internet | Author Alex McLachlanThree of Real Story Group's Technology Predictions for 2012 particularly caught my eye: big data meets web marketing; CRM and CMS on collision course; and new job titles emerge.
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SEP
Mobile web, mobile apps and mobile commerce
16 SEP 2011 | Posted in apps, HTML5, internet, mobile, website | Author Alex McLachlanMobile devices are becoming an increasingly important channel for customer contact, but as with many new technologies, it is important to cut through the hype - in this case that mobile will replace PCs and that investment should be solely directed at mobile.
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MAY
Challenge of Wikipedia for Charities
31 MAY 2011 | Posted in charity, internet, knowledge, NFP, SEO, social media, Wikipedia | Author Alex McLachlanProviding information to the public is one of the main "charitable objectives" of many charities, particularly medical-related charities. So it was interesting to see the recent announcement by Cancer Research UK of an initiative to tidy up some of the key pages on cancer on Wikipedia.
The challenge is that for typical cancer related searches, Wikipedia comes second, whilst Cancer Research comes around eighth. Wikipedia gets many more visits as a result of the higher search result ranking (3.5m per month over its 1,500 cancer-related pages), but Wikipedia articles are not necessarily accurate or well written.
10
MAR
IE6 Refuses to Die
10 MAR 2011 | Posted in internet, website | Author Alex McLachlan | 2 Comments
Internet Explorer 6 is still used by 12% of users worldwide and refuses to die, despite Microsoft's attempts to kill it off.
IE6 causes real business problems as the lack of up to date style support means that IE6 styling has to be coped with as a separate task and there are acknowledged security and speed issues.
Microsoft want to get IE6 use down to 1% and are encouraging internet users to educate IE6 users to upgrade
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MAR
Resilience in Internet Connectivity?
16 MAR 2009 | Posted in connectivity, internet, resilience, risk | Author Rob SmithLiterally one week after highlighting the business risk of having a single communication line to the internet, that risk is cruelly exposed at the IChemE by a workman digging up the road (I should point out that contrary to popular rumour he wasn’t sponsored by IndigoBlue).
Internet connectivity, primarily for email, is now the lifeblood of every organisation; lose it and your productivity will plummet. An errant workman can easily cause a week of down time. This is a surprisingly common issue, and yet the solution of a second line is relatively easy to implement and is certainly cost effective.