Steve's Blog
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My Space music breakthrough
December 08 2009
Thanks to the ground breaking deal it's just struck with PRS (the company who handle music rights) Myspace is set to position itself as one of the big future music distributors. It will rival music streaming services such as Spotify with it's own free online service with what it claims will be a larger catalogue and without any ad breaks.
Do you think the music labels will finally wake up and smell the coffee? Unfortunatly I don't think so. Whilst at a social media conference earlier this year they were still happily shooting themselves in the foot being stuck on mp3 issues. There's a big pot of money from the newly de-criminialised music listening public that the record labels simply don't want to take. Strange.... I'll have it :)
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Add your face apps
October 02 2009
We're very exitied by the launch of our new customisable flash apps letting users add their own faces to animated sequences. The scope is endless for helping our clients engage with their audience in an inovative and engaging way. If it takes your interest please get in touch and we'll brainstorm a way to get the system to deliver a knock-out campaign for your sector.
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Marstons emarketing
September 26 2009
As our relationship strengthens as a digital partner to Marstons Brewery we look forward to some exciting projects for Hobgoblin Beer over the halloween period. Look out for our favourite, the hobgoblin groove which will be launching sortly, get your dancing boots ready!
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ie6, how long is left?
July 16 2009
Since the news that Apple’s Mobile Me has dropped support for the eight year old ie6 browser, it seems that many more high profile nails have been nailed into its coffin. Both YouTube and Digg have recently announced limited or no support for ie6 users. I personally applaud their leadership in moving sections of the online community forwards for the greater good.
Whether for better or for worse it seems that there is the beginnings of a common sense counter revolution to the sometimes extreme accessibility culture of the present day. This culture encourages us to support an eight year browser which is no longer secure or in any way standards compliant whilst there is a huge amount of easy to instal alternatives. This support accounts for significant developer resources which is in turn in needlessly funded by yourselves, the clients.
The reason for the stubborn late migrations is internal corporate IT policies which are reluctant to make changes to existing infrastructure. From the current activity it seems the developer community is no longer as willing to support and fund the trepidations of the IT industry.
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What makes an iPhone user
July 07 2009
An interesting stat which shows it's not just the quantity but the quality of user which can make a big difference. iPhones have 8% of smart phone market but make 43% of mobile web requests and 65% of HTML usage, busy guys!