Five techniques for creative thinking
If you’re ever stuck for a new idea or you don’t know how to move things forward, here are a few techniques from the creative minds at Kalexiko. 1. Positive/ negative thinking With this you imagine the worst possible thing or scenario. For example, if you’re designing a website, you think of a truly horrible website; really the worst you can think of in every way. You populate it with lots of detail and have fun thinking about how truly unpleasant and useless it could be. Then you envisage and create the complete opposite. 2. Push the possibilities Ask a …
This is the most amazing time and place to be alive
It is 2012 and we live in a world where we are surrounded by limitless possibilities. We now have the ability to connect with people and communicate in ways that just a few years ago were unimaginable. A world of information is at our finger tips and we control it. Think about it, at any given point you can become a photographer, designer, artist, business owner, author, political activists, researcher, musician – or just about anything else you want to be. Only a handful of years ago, pretty much all the activities on the list below were either impossible or …
5 reasons why your business should be on Google Places
When was the last time you used a Yellow Pages? If the answer is recently then you’ve just ruined this article, so I hope you’re proud of yourself. The Yellow Pages certainly does have its uses; it’s great for standing on top of to reach particularly high shelves, balancing wobbly tables, or even as an effective doorstop. Plus it’s full of local business listings for practically every sector you could possibly require. Google Places combines aspects of a business directory with their map service, allowing customers to search for local businesses and see where they are geographically, as well as …
Google’s most popular search queries for 2011
For the year 2011, the Facebook Social Network dominated search queries over all others in the UK. Four different variations of Facebook were used in the top four slots including FB, www.facebook.com, Facebook login and facebook.com within Google US according to Experian Hitwise. MOST SEARCHED-FOR TERMS IN THE UK 2011 1. Facebook 2. Youtube 3. Ebay 4. Facebook login 5. Amazon 6. Argos 7. BBC 8. Fb 9. Google 10. BBC News Within the top 50 searches celebrities such as Kim Kardashian, Victoria Beckham, Kris Humphries reign at the top in search queries. UK internet users clicked to search for …
The battle of modern day browsers
According to a recent article in the Daily Telegraph, something extraordinary happened recently in the world of web browsers; Google’s Chrome overtook Mozilla’s Firefox in market share for the first time. This by no means spells the end for Firefox, indeed both browsers currently lag far behind Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and this isn’t likely to change for at least the time being. For a while now Google have been effectively sponsoring Firefox, backing them financially in exchange for integration of their search engine within the browser, and this deal was recently renewed to guarantee Firefox’s survival for at least the …