The new way to discover music – Twitter #music

Twitter have launched their new music discovery app and website – just over a week after closing down acquired site We Are Hunted.

Gov.uk named winner of Design of the Year 2013

The Design of the Year 2013 awards were announced on Tuesday and for the first time ever a website won the prestigious title of “design of the year”.

WordPress security alert!!

WordPress have been hit recently by attackers targeting the "admin" user account.The incredibly popular website software is used by millions of websites around the world and it's important to keep your installation of WordPress up to date.The people attacking WordPress currently seem to be aiming their attack at both stand…

How to get around Duplicate Content issues with Cloudfront CDN

Cloudfront is Amazon's Content Delivery Network (CDN) offering and provides web developers with an easy to use and cost effective way of letting people access content from a variety of regions around the world with the aim of speeding up website delivery. This isn't a guide to using Cloudfront -…

How to add special offers, discounts and vouchers in OpenCart

There are various ways you can offer discounts to your customers with OpenCart - you can do it via "Specials", "Discounts" or "Coupons" (voucher codes).Specials:Specials let you mark an item as being reduced in price - depending on your theme, this might show the old price with a line through…

Disney breaking copyright?

I’ve just read a post by Katie Woodger published on her Tumblr blog about an hour ago and it appears that Disney are using a drawing of hers without her permission.

Google’s semantic web needs to be careful

We've just had a conversation about Gilbey's Gin, after a client of ours did some work for them.So, the first thing I did was Google "Gilbey's Gin", which brought back a result showing me a photo of Sir Walter Gilbey, along with a photo of him and some info about…

Using Twitter Web Intents

We've just added some social media links to Poole Trail so that people can share the great stories and media on the City Insights route.As the design called for custom links rather than just social media icons / widgets, we discovered that the old way of doing things for Twitter…

Looking behind the headlines – the success of Summly

National news headlines yesterday were full of Nick D’Aloisio and the acquisition of his iPhone app, Summly, by Yahoo in a multi-million pound deal.

Line breaks in Twitter posts

Not exactly the most exciting Social Media news ever, but yesterday Twitter announced that you can see line breaks in tweets on the web/from your desktop rather than only in it’s mobile off

Tablets overtake smartphones as the device of choice

Last week Adobe Digital Index announced that global websites are now receiving more traffic from tablets than from smartphones.

Google+ cover photos just got (a lot) bigger

Well I picked the wrong day (yesterday) to decide to finally sit down and sort out the Talking Web Google+ page and try and tie up the string of old Google services / places pages my company