Here at Designbysoap Ltd we’re constantly on the look out for new creative additions to our services, particularly if those services can be integrated into our holistic approach to SEO and online PR. As of this week, Designbysoap will be offering bespoke QR code design, incorporating both the generation of the code and a unique [...]
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Google’s +1, The Next Stage Of Social Search?
As far as social media goes, Google hasn’t had the best of times. If we take a quick look at the history of their social ventures we can see that nearly all of them have faded into obscurity, or been amalgamated into other services. The list goes as follows: – Orkut. The first of Google’s [...]
AOL Buys Huffington Post To Keep Up
With the relentless pace of technology forging on, it is inevitable that you’ll be left behind if you’re not careful. A prime example of this is AOL. From 1991 to around 2000, you couldn’t move for AOL CD’s. At the peak, America Online had over 30 million subscribers, all using the same hideous software. Sadly, [...]
Superbowl Weekend Brings Advertising Madness
It’s that time of year again, where the entirety of America and maybe 6 or 7 people from other countries tune in for the Superbowl. The culmination of the NFL and AFC seasons come to a head in the largest annual sporting event next to the Champions League Final. It is estimated that this year [...]
SEO News: Google Launches Anti-Spam Algorithm Update
On Jan 28th (last Friday), Matt Cutts confirmed that Google have launched a new algorithmic update, designed to cut the number of spam sites making it into the index. According to Matt, the update was aimed at ensuring that websites with low levels of original content (including those that re-post other people’s articles verbatim, leveraging [...]
Google ‘Body Browser’
We all know Google’s love for browsing. They developed Google Maps and Google Earth so you can browse the entire world, in increasingly minute detail. With Chrome they’ve designed their own web browser, smartphones, OS and a host of other innovative browsing products and devices; it’s fundamental to what they do. Next on the list [...]
Google Streetview Completes Continents
Google Streetview, the GoogleMaps service that allows you to view continuous panoramas of street level activity, has been working on the range of their mapping recently. Since the launch in early 2007, the fleet of streetview vehicles have driven hundreds of thousands of miles to record roads around the world, but this latest update means [...]
Protesters Lay Siege To Google HQ
A group of ‘net neutrality’ demonstrators laid siege to the Google headquarters in Mountain View, CA last Friday, protesting about the recent Google deal with Verizon. The peaceful protest lasted for an hour or two and involved around 100 people waving ‘Dont Be Evil’ banners, as well as a fair percentage of journalists and other [...]
2010 Social Network Map
In a tribute to the 2007 ‘Map Of Online Communities’ produced by XKCD (which you can see here), Ethan Bloch has updated the concept for 2010. With a little social commentary alongside such as ‘The Former Kingdom Of Myspace’, and ‘The Sea Of Master Debaters’ it’s informative but a laugh and definitely worth a look [...]
Jailbreaking For All
Since the iPhone was launched in early 2007, people have been dissatisfied with Apple’s software restrictions and have set about trying to ‘jailbreak’ them. This is basically a clever way of making your iPhone accept unsigned code by unlocking the OS and allowing root access. Whilst this was the privilege of the techy for several [...]
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