The latest series of ‘The Apprentice’ just came to an end in the UK and, if you were among those following, you’ll know the winner was a man called Mark Wright, who gained a £250,000 investment (roughly $400k for any Americans reading), to spend launching a Digital Marketing Agency. Not an original idea, but sensible nonetheless: Digital …
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Four of the UK’s largest broadcasters have announced plans for a series of leadership debates prior to the next general election. The BBC, ITV, Sky and Channel 4 plan to hold 3 debates: One with the Conservative & Labour parties. One with those parties plus the Liberal Democrats. One with Conservative, Labour, Lib Dem, and UKIP. Their …
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In 2012, “the cookie law” was implemented in the UK (it was actually a year earlier, but UK organisations were given a year’s grace period). I put in a ‘Freedom of Information’ request to the Information Commissioner’s office to see how they’re currently enforcing the law. Ashley Duffy (Lead Information Access Officer at the ICO) very …
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This site uses cookies. At the time of writing the technology that places those cookies is roughly as follows: Twitter – the site uses a tweet/follow button occasionally, which uses cookies. If you’re logged in to Twitter, this may mean they know you’ve been to particular URLs. Google Analytics – the site uses various pretty …
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Google have been rolling out “Sitelinks Search Boxes” for many sites recently. These have existed for years, but on a very, very limited number of sites, and without any auto-complete functionality. These are useful from a user point of view but – something that has not been spoken about particularly – they also provide a …
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The Scotland referendum question is worded like this: “Should Scotland be an independent country?” As a result, the “Independent Scotland” campaigners are called the “Yes” camp, and those who want the UK to stay together are the “No” camp. I’ve heard it suggested quite a few times that 犀利士 this puts the ‘unionists’ at a fundamental …
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Here are the results of a poll run on a sample of Scottish web users between 7-9 September. The poll reported – when weighted to match the Scottish internet population’s general makeup – a 53.9% ‘Yes’ vote for the question “Should Scotland be an independent country?” The poll results were from 1,000 people in Scotland (for …
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Google Analytics is now recording Post Code data for visitors to websites across Europe. Rachel McCombie of Air Experiences was the first to spot the change. Here’s an example for the UK, where over the last few days roughly 5% of ‘city’ traffic has been recorded with a postal code rather than a city name …
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Here are the results of 2 surveys. The first is one that’s been run quite a lot by polling organisations over the last couple of years. The second one is much rarer. Here are the descriptions: Survey 1: A survey of 1,000 people in Scotland, carried out over the web, asking the simple quesiton “Should …
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Occasionally at the moment when you click a LinkedIn notification on your phone, the LinkedIn app opens and – before you’re taken to the notification – you’re presented with this screen: That looks fairly mundane at first glance. Often apps present you with information before taking you to wherever you were going. But… if you …
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