“The internet – is that thing still around?” – so goes the quote from Homer Simpson. Those memorable words rang in my ears upon seeing the sign below on a particularly chilly commute home. For those of us looking for public transport information delivered to us painfully slowly, unclearly and from something called a television [...]
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Watch Out, the Internet – Your Days are Numbered
October 20, 2009
Filed under:Fun @ Fluid, Industry News
Paid for content is unavoidable
October 20, 2009
Filed under:Industry News
…say leading publishers. That was the sentiment coming out of last weeks AOP summit at the Business Design Centre in London. The key point here is who is doing the talking. In much the same way that the oil industry might say “fossil fuels are vital for the world’s future” – there’s a clear and [...]
CommentsRead MoreWhat is Magento? How to get a Magento store.
October 19, 2009
Filed under:Web Development, magento
What is Magento?
Magento is an open source e-commerce platform with an impressive feature set out of the box and is built using the industry standard Zend Framework. The community edition of Magento is free to use but for larger stores there is an enterprise edition available with an expanded feature set and a support agreement [...]
Burnley Council Logo – How Did They Do It?
October 16, 2009
Filed under:Fun @ Fluid, Graphic Design
Local goverments seem to enjoy the unenviable reputation of being red tape obsessed beaurocrats. Luckily some of these organisations are willing to shake of this dusty image and rebrand themselves in a way that will appeal to the man on the street.
Last month we blogged about what we felt was Birmingham City’s overcosted and shoddily [...]
The social media stunt of the year
October 16, 2009
Filed under:Industry News, Social Media
Late yesterday whilst reading reddit, I spotted a link about some 6-year-old who “couldn’t have done all of this by himself”. I didn’t bother to click on it, but nevertheless it was the first vibrations of buzz surrounding what was to became a major news story. That evening, I checked reddit again to see the [...]
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