Automatic Twitter and Facebook Updates

(This was posted 8 months, 4 weeks, 3 hours, 34 minutes's ago.)

Automatic Twitter and Facebook updates are here!

We have been working on a way of getting our blog to update the entries on the social networking sites that we are members of without having to do x, y, z and a combination of other things.

Well thanks to a combination of a new module for ExpressionEngine, Ping.fm and our bloody minded approach to development we are there!

This is a technical thing so I won’t bore you with it but the long and short is that we can now send anything entered into our preferred CMS to an email recipient or a social networking site.

If you can’t do this or if you have to go through x, y, z, and so on give us a call so we can show you a simpler approach.

Google Sidewiki - good or baaaaaab?

(This was posted 8 months, 4 weeks, 1 day, 18 hours, 27 minutes's ago.)

Clearly I’m not one to moan about the wonderful Google but I have to say that I find the latest Google gadget to be a little annoying...

Google Sidewiki...

In Googles words ‘Google Sidewiki is a browser sidebar that lets you contribute and read information alongside any web page’.

I think that in reality is another way of adding a popup to my screen when I load a new website or page.

I have to think about the idea that this will at some point be used for advertising, something along the lines of associated website adds being shown based on comments or content!

Then there is people abusing the system, what if I was to go onto my #1 competitors site and comment that they are not worth a light – will that comment be shown when browsers to their site visit? Now I’m not a nasty man but what if my competitors are? Could they leave messages for my visitors to see? 

At the heart of it I think the idea is a good one, my problem is thinking about how it is going to be abused by Google and other web users.

Welcome to MS Construction Logistics

(This was posted 9 months, 1 week, 1 day, 9 hours's ago.)

I'd like to welcome MS Construction Logistics to the Thinking Virtually team!

We have just sent their new website live, take a look:

http://www.msconstructionlogistics.co.uk

MS Construction Logistics as specialist construction logistics experts. Providing a range of essential services that 'help you build'.

Busy, busy, busy!

(This was posted 9 months, 2 weeks, 6 days, 9 hours, 3 minutes's ago.)

I’ve been busy, busy, busy...

My son has not been well, lots of quotes to send and questions from friends and clients...

Not sure that I’m not a busy fool but the New Year is looking promising.

I swear to be back updating the blog, on a regular basis now – otherwise there was no point putting it here! Sounds like something I would say to a client...

So here is my thought for the day ‘when did you last look at your website?’ clearly I looked today...

Doodles for Google

(This was posted 9 months, 3 weeks, 5 days, 9 hours, 4 minutes's ago.)

Over the last few days the doodle on Google has been celebrating 40 years of Sesame Street.

I love Sesame Street, it’s characters – everything!

Today I looked and found yet another Sesame Street character, Elmo. This prompted me to look at what the Google doodles were all about.

OK, from what I can see there are two things to know here, there is the original doodler (Dennis Hwang) and then there is a cool competition for local schools (Doodle 4 Google).

I’m no expert on Schools but I think Google 4 Doodle is a great idea. It encourages creativity, teamwork and the prize is really cool – a day on Google for the winning design. What is most interesting for me is that I knew about Dennis Hwang but had no idea about this and wonder how many schools know about it?

So here is the challenge: everybody reading this that have children, know people that have children or that are involved with Schools need to tell the school about Doodle 4 Google.

For now however here is todays 'Doodle 4 Google' - enjoy!