35 post(s) written by Joe Johnson.

The latest series of The Entrepreneurial reality TV show ‘The Apprentice’ is now well underway. Hosted by hard-to-please steely business owner Alan Sugar, the show has again demonstrated an eclectic pool of contestants encompassing a surgeon, an unemployed… Read more

Following recent news that Google began integrating local entries into its natural results (see previous post) the latest buzz in the search engine optimisation world is Google’s announcement of a system that combines user reviews with a social networking… Read more

Barely a day goes by without a major announcement from one of the big web players in 2010 it seems… Today was the turn of Mark Zuckerberg’s Social Networking Leviathan, Facebook. The teen millionaire and central character of the big budget Hollywood… Read more

It was announced yesterday that the once highly successful search platform ‘Ask.com’, was laying off 130 of its employees in the U.S and China after making the decision to withdraw from the ultra-competitive search market. Instead, the Ask brand will… Read more

You Tube has always been the best place to find videos of fearless skate boarders getting intimate with blunt inanimate objects such as railings and paving slabs,  all in the name of internet notoriety.  For every ten or so cringe worthy face-plants… Read more

Game shows are nothing new, in fact they almost go as far back as their old and crusty wise-cracking hosts such as Brucie and Roy ‘it’s good but it’s not right’ Walker. The genre has remained popular throughout its lengthy tenure as a mass-appeal… Read more

So it’s almost Halloween and across the land the land boys and ghouls (sorry) will be donning their fancy dress capes and painting their faces as pale as a Java Script programmer, preparing to ask total strangers for confectionery and throw eggs at… Read more

A recent change in Google’s algorithm means that location-based results are being prioritised over the traditional organic directory results that we have been used to for years. Up until now, a map has appeared at the top of the page, underneath the… Read more

I find some of Google’s latest innovations difficult to get enthusiastic about. One thing announced by the search giant yesterday that did pique my interest however was Google TV! There has been hype building about this for months in the blogosphere… Read more