HM Revenue & Customs implements changes to help businesses
In British finance minister Alistair Darling's pre-budget report to parliament last month, a plan was laid out to help businesses in the UK.
Here are some of the changes that are being implemented that may impact you.
An awesome WordPress 2.7 is released
Automattic, the maker of the popular WordPress open-source blogging software, made a big announcement last week - the release of WordPress 2.7.
As a WordPress user myself, this was exciting news because WordPress 2.7 is a major update.
Save money with these 20 voucher code and coupon websites
In today's economy everyone is on the lookout for opportunities to save money. Voucher code and coupon websites offer some of the best opportunities to save money on products you may already be planning to buy.
Here are 20 voucher code and coupon websites that make it easy to save money on both business and personal purchases from a wide range of retailers.
Experimenting with social media
There's a lot of talk these days about using social media to engage with your customers (and prospective customers). A huge amount of debate has taken place between those who argue that social media is crucially important to businesses today and those who say the emperor has no clothes.
Would you buy fashion from Microsoft?
In its effort to make itself cool again, Microsoft and ad agency Crispin Porter & Bogusky have launched a Microsoft clothing line called 'Softwear by Microsoft.'
Crowdsourcing with Amazon Mechanical Turk
There are some tasks that computers and software programs just can't perform. Sometimes, these tasks are tedious or the 'resources' required to complete them require more man-power than you have.
Endemic advertisers versus demographic advertisers
At a time when the act of direct advertising sales (both online and offline) is getting tougher due to economic conditions, I thought it'd be worthwhile to discuss the oft-unrecognized distinction between selling ads to endemic advertisers and selling ads to advertisers looking to reach a specific demographic.
Is 2009 the year of the mobile internet?
It seems that for the past decade, we've all been told that the mobile internet is going to be "big" and will eventually eclipse the "desktop-oriented" internet that most of us are still most familiar with.
8 SMS gateways/aggregators
Last week in my SMS primer, I discussed the role of the SMS gateways that provide connectivity to the mobile infrastructure that makes SMS messaging possible. If you've developed a mobile application and need connectivity to the carriers, you'll need an SMS gateway.
Tips for a tough job market
It's hard to escape the dour economic news that seems to be getting worse with each passing day. Even though the job market in certain areas of the technology industry seems to be holding up far better than in other industries, many are still concerned about the possibility that they could find themselves out of work in the coming year.
Holiday shopping forecast 2009: a lot like 2008, with more coupons
The NLA explains why it is going after the news aggregators
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Graham Charlton
Strategy & Planning
