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It’s been a breeze to add a local business listing to Google Maps for a long time and they’ve made umpteen changes to the interface since it was launched. Bing has been slower off the mark (in the UK, anyway) but they’ve finally started inviting listings.
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I’m a big fan of Google Streetview – the privacy concerns that some people have don’t trouble me. So I’m really pleased that they’ve just released images of just about every street, road and lane in the whole of the UK.
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I was talking to Andrew and Georgey on BBC Radio Leeds this morning about staying safe online. I didn’t have time to mention one of the most important things you can do: use a secure password. Continue reading…
BBC Radio Leeds Breakfast Show presenters Andrew and Georgey (@andrew_georgey on Twitter) will be discussing how technology has changed our lives during the first decade of the twenty-first century (although some people say the decade doesn’t end until 31 Dec 2010…). I’ll be with them for a few minutes sometime after 07:30; here are some of the things I’ll be talking about. Continue reading…
I have an iPhone and I love it. But I get frustrated because on an almost daily basis I find calls that have been sent straight to voicemail, even though I was available at the time the call came through. Continue reading…
Another new release from Google AdWords this week allows advertisers “whose ads meet a certain high quality threshold” to add sitelinks to their text ads when they appear on Google properties. These let searchers get straight to the content on your site that is most relevant to their query. Continue reading…
Some useful advice about when to use one of the world’s most popular fonts. Continue reading…
Google are enhancing their paid results listings in all sorts of ways, presumably to increase the click-through rate (and their revenue, of course…). Continue reading…
Google have started testing images in sponsored links.
I guess it was only a matter of time before they started enriching the content of ads within the ’search network’ (they’ve offered various ad formats, including image and video, within the content network for a while). Continue reading…
Facebook launched new payment options yesterday, increasing the number of currencies in which advertisers can be billed (it was US$ or nothing before). But beware – there seem to be a few teething problems. Continue reading…