Is the Twitter buzz over?...

When I first heard about Twitter, I had the common response of: “what, just like FB status updates? sounds rubbish.” But since I have enjoyed using Twitter, mainly for keeping up with SEO stuff which seems to gel with the whole “real-time search” thing. What really frustrated me, when I was still in my sceptic phase, was the sheer volume of people telling me either how great Twitter is, or how to use it, or why I practically must start using it for fear of being so far behind I might never catch up. This led to a lot of people talking about the...

Please don’t start: “In this...

Recently, women’s clothing company Whistles relaunched their site, and Econsultancy did a site review of it. Basically, the site is very “visual” and the navigation is quite a long way from the average eCommerce site. This led to a lot of people wading in, brandishing huge egos, with their opinion of the site, positive and negative – mainly negative. The main talking point seemed to be the comment that the designers made: “We spent a lot of time researching best practice online. We then threw out everything we had learned, and just designed...