Web designers have always had a moving target in their sights when trying to decide the best page size for a web site. Generally speaking big pictures look better and there has always been a trade off between image resolution and download overhead. When I first started building websites back in the late ’90s it felt pretty Read More
Who really owns your domain name?
Who owns your internet domain name? If you don’t know then you really ought to find out. When you start a new business it is easy to overlook the value of your domain. Costing just a few pounds, domain registration is probably the least expensive item on your start-up shopping list. But once you have Read More
To beacon or not to beacon – that is the question
Earlier this week I spent an interesting couple of hours at the C4DI Beta in Hull discussing Bluetooth beacons. We were brainstorming ideas to showcase the City Engine, C4DI’s open data project that we’re running in partnership with Hull City Council. Support for geolocation data is fundamental to the City Engine, so it seemed obvious Read More
Proximity marketing – is it just a new flavour of spam?
Bluetooth beacons, or iBeacons, have been on my radar for the last year or so. There is something undeniably cool about iBeacon technology – perhaps because it provides a bridge between the real, physical world and the virtual worlds that we inhabit through our computers and smartphones. Bluetooth beacons can form part of the infrastructre that Read More