Over the past few months I have talked with web site owners, agencies and clients about their fears, needs and hopes for 2009. Combined with the survival skills learned when the tech industry went south in early 2001, here is what I personally, but firmly, believe providers of web services – interactive agencies, design shops, [...]
As a bit of homework for participating in the forthcoming Hull Digital Open Coffee Meet Up event (I hope you’re going to be there!), and to show my support for local tech events, I decided to head over to Leeds and see for myself how the established ignite formula would work in Yorkshire, at the [...]
There is a very amusing thread happening over on the This is Hull and East Riding website about the internet disruption caused by Karoo last night. Of particular note in the comments on the article is this one post by Hull Gold which seems to perfectly sum up the situation: This was because like all [...]
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Recently I was sent this YouTube video about an old bloke thrown in to using the new Windows 8. My reaction to this type of ‘journalism’ is fairly scathing. My measured response is that the example in the video is neither a fair test since the unsuspecting suspect was given no guidance at all on [...]
Ask pretty much any politician what the key to getting ourselves out of the current economic mess is and they’ll say “business growth”. Ask them where that growth is going to come from and they’ll say “Small- and Medium-sized businesses”. If I’m feeling generous I’d say that the credit crunch and the global recession have [...]
I’m passionate about Hull and its future. I was born here, educated here, returned after University, and have been running businesses in the city for the last eleven years or so. Hull’s been in a tough economic situation for many years now. The reasons behind this and the associated social impact are complex. What’s clear [...]