March 2009 - Posts

• PageLife and Silverlight brings Seat Exeo launch alive on the web

  The designers and developers who work buried deep below ground in the Silverlight mines here at Metia have unearthed a rich vein in PageLife. Responding to some of our customers' requirement to explain their products or services via a structured, narrative Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 31 March 2009 23:23 by Steve | 1 Comments Filed Under: Marketing, Technology

• The ROI from Twitter: updated

  Here's one     -------------------------- and updated: Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 24 March 2009 21:52 by Steve | 0 Comments Filed Under: Marketing, Social

• New toy: Google Street Views

  After a couple of days of MIX09 inspired love for Microsoft, I have also to give credit to Google for getting Street Views out to market. This is Metia's London office view. Eerily quiet though for the heart of Covent Garden. If they had dropped us Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 19 March 2009 15:05 by Steve | 0 Comments Filed Under: Random

• The future of conferences and live events: add an online experience

  Dennis Howlett writes a great post on Microsoft's MIX09 and his experience of the live online event. I spotted Dennis and James Governor discussing their feedback on Twitter at the time (see below for a few soundbites) and Dennis obviously felt moved Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 18 March 2009 18:46 by Steve | 0 Comments

• Best Buy's new marketing initiative: publish an API

  I like Best Buy's idea to create Remix, an API for Best Buy product line information and price data. Basically, third parties can now incorporate the data into their own service offerings, extending the reach of Best Buy into new channels and services. Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 16 March 2009 17:38 by Steve | 0 Comments Filed Under: Technology, Social

• UK Newspapers forbid links to their websites. Say again?

  Thanks to Guy Clapperton for pointing out this great post on the Online Journalism Blog. The consistency with which UK newspapers forbid links to their sites is amazing. I'd guess the in-house lawyers were all out on a libel case when the Internet 101 Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 12 March 2009 14:09 by Steve | 0 Comments Filed Under: Media, Technology

• The Age of Stupid debuts with People's Premiere

  My friend Dave Hampton - aka the Carbon Coach - nudged me to highlight the premiere of The Age of Stupid, a film designed to get audiences to re-consider their personal self justifying Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 11 March 2009 08:30 by Steve | 0 Comments Filed Under: Random

• Guardian Developer Community gets to work with Open Platform

  While most newspaper groups are getting coverage for layoffs and write downs, the Guardian has announced Open Platform, a set of technical initiatives supporting the free (but with strings) re-use of their content through an open API and Data Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 10 March 2009 15:50 by Steve | 0 Comments Filed Under: Media, Communities

• Building in the clouds with Microsoft Azure Services

  Here is a new site Metia has built for Microsoft Dynamics which has just gone live. It's a great looking site, the team and - most importantly - the clients are all very happy. It's also - we believe - the first Microsoft website to be built and Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 05 March 2009 15:05 by Steve | 0 Comments Filed Under: Marketing, Technology