Mobile Devices – Can Your Website Cope?

by Colman Carpenter | Feb 9, 2012 | News, Websites, Wordpress

The growth of mobile computing You can hardly fail to have noticed the proliferation of mobile devices in recent years. Netbooks started the trend, although ultimately seem to have been crushed by the subsequent onslaught of iPhones, iPads, Android phones and tablets....

The End of the Anonymous Internet?

by Colman Carpenter | Feb 2, 2012 | News, Social Networks

I was chatting with a fellow business owner recently. In actual fact I was try to entice him to attend our new online networking sessions, Coffee and Tech. He was pretty enthusiastic, until he realised he would need a webcam to attend as it is essentially a free...

The future of networking?

by Colman Carpenter | Jan 26, 2012 | Google, News, Social Networks

As you may have noticed, I’m starting up a pretty informal, weekly networking event called Coffee and Tech. The objective is to pull together a diverse bunch of people into a Google+ Hangout (essentially a free video-conferencing system for up to 10 people). The...

Cookies and your website

by Colman Carpenter | Jan 17, 2012 | Analytics, News, Wordpress

If you own a website then you should be aware of the EU Cookie Law that came into effect as far back as May of last year (2011). In the past the EU has been accused of creating lakes of wine and mountains of beef, but this time there is no food involved, but rather a...

Google Search – the Game Changer

by Colman Carpenter | Jan 11, 2012 | Google, News

Yesterday Google announced a change to the way in which search results are presented. “not another one” would be my best guess at the common reaction to this news, if people even noticed at all. After all, Google have been tweaking lots of things recently,...