tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87785580196230496492012-01-27T14:03:38.671ZThe Rocktime team aim to keep you up to date with the latest in new media trends. Blog posts relate to web developments, mobile, e-commerce, search marketing, social media and all things Geek. Feel free to lurk or join in the conversation. We are located in Poole which is close to Bournemouth in Dorset.Rocktime Digital Agencyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01855051064024763599noreply@blogger.comBlogger1651100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8778558019623049649.post-10359788699530900502012-01-24T15:00:00.005Z2012-01-27T13:43:04.844Z

The Flashlight Search Marketing Team at Rocktime Digital Agency work with a number of our clients advising them how to respond in social media. Working with the client we talk about the types of negative customers who can contact your company via social media such as: the unhappy customer, the misguided twitter follower, the all time negative poster.We help our clients understand how to access,

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Our regular readers will know that each month we share with you our 'Geek Video' of the month. Each month videos are submitted to me, by the technical team, or clients and a monthly winner is chosen. Without further ado, drum roll please!Our top Geek Video for 2011 is...The EXODesk! Featured in our December Geek Video of the Month. Sadly Santa didn’t bring me one for Christmas this year, but

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Happy New Year readers, hope you all had a lovely Christmas break.We thought to share with you some of the best posts we have spotted on the WWW about tech trends people expect to emerge in 2012, enjoy:Five tech trends to watch in 2012 from MashableFive key marketing trends for 2012: Are you being served, from EconsultancyTen tech trends that will be big in 2012 from Pocket-lintTech trends for

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Since Google+ launched for brands and businesses in November 2011 I have enjoyed thinking about ways we could incorporate Google+ into integrated digital marketing strategies and build a brand presence for our clients. Here are a few things, listed in no particular order, that I like about Google+:Hangouts are great for product demos and launches, group chats, document screen sharing and music

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Dear Santa,For Christmas, I would like an EXOdesk to replace my office desk at work, thanks. Unfortunately though, it might have to wait until next year, as the video above is currently only a prototype. Built by the Canadian software company, EXOPC, their interactive desk is a tabletop computer, allowing you to manipulate objects by touch and dragging across the surface. If you’re interested in

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To celebrate the Christmas season, eBay is opening their first ever UK store, though it’s not quite shopping as we know it...Their temporary boutique opened yesterday, as scheduled, in London’s West End for just 5 days, allowing shoppers to browse their potential purchases before splashing out online. This is by no means eBay’s first foray into expanding from their online auctions; why not check

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Earlier this week we talked about what benefits a Google+ page can bring to brands and businesses today we’re talking about the basics of setting up your own Google Plus business page.Creating your own Google+ page is quite straight forward but would benefit from a bit of strategy about how your business wants to use the network. To start, simply log into your Google account or create a new

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As we're pretty big fans of Google, it's no suprise we’ve talked about Google+ and how it squares up before, and now we're back there again!This month finally sees the release of Google+ for businesses, so now we’ll be taking a look at what Google+ has to offer you as a business, or brand owner.The Google+ strap line is ‘Real-life sharing, rethought for the web’ and refers to G+ as a social

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Spotted by our Technical Director, Kieron, this month we’re checking out some seriously ‘cool’ science!With video courtesy of the Association of Science–Technology Centres, physicists from Tel-Aviv University have put together this fantastic demo of the phenomena of quantum trapping and quantum levitation.Because of the way superconductors and magnetic fields interact, the cooled superconductor

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This time last year we were letting our clients know that local search engine optimisation was destined to be a hot topic in the natural search engine result pages. We advised our clients of the numerous ways in which our clients can increase their local traffic via natural search (i.e. not paid for search adverts) this included geo tagging, local business adverts, local mentions, local social

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After the Google Street View service that allows viewers to view the exterior of a business, Google adds a new feature to its Google map services by allowing users to see 360-degree street-level images of the interior of various businesses, including restaurants, hotels, retailer shops and gyms etc.This new feature has been discussed in news and in social platforms for a while and we have been

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Google announced last week that they are going to begin to encrypt searches made by logged in users, to make search more secure. Even though you can still obtain results on keywords (logged in or not) from paid search!What this means to users is nothing (apart from security on keeping keyword searches secret), what this meant to website owners with analytics, is that they will no longer receive

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In an ideal web world, every website would have a “News Module”. A news module is a place where a website visitor can keep up to date with what’s new with the site owner, the website business or business progress. Having a news or blog section on your website isn’t just useful for your website visitors; search engines (especially Google) absolutely love it. Search Engines love fresh, unique

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We love this case study which was mentioned over at Mobile Marketing News earlier in the week. It mentions that Domino's Pizza's had a record month of mobile orders with 13% of their total orders coming in via mobile device, bringing in a sum of £130,000 in one day alone! What a fantastic statistic!Domino's chief executive, Chris Moore, puts the company's sales into perspective:"When we launched

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For this month’s Geek Video we’re taking a look into the interesting internet marketing approach by BMW UK. Why not check out the above video for a demonstration of BMW’s Z4 in both reality and augmented reality.This isn’t BMW’s first foray into the world of virtual reality, they’ve already been pondering on the practical application and advantages it could bring to their business, as mentioned

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We are saddened to hear the death of Steve Jobs. He was a great inspiration and thought leader in the computing world, transforming computers into digital lifestyle devices. Right now a number of poignant messages are being passed around the web on Steve’s impact.On Google search for Steve Jobs, you may note that as a tribute the Google Homepage is directly linking to Apple, see image

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Last week Google’s social network, Google+, opened its gates to all after two and half months of closed testing.Fiona presents her breakdown of Pros and Cons of Google+ from the perspective of a Google Enthusiast for Rocktime clients and Music promotion.Pros: I really liked the simplicity of registering to join Google+ BETA. My attention was kept by the use of innovative circles of networks and

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We heard about the news from Mashable that Twitter is soon to roll out their Web Analytics tool.We are quite excited to see the interface. The tool will help online marketers and website owners understand more about the effectiveness of their integrated Twitter campaigns.The above image and below snippet has been taken from this Mashable post:“Twitter Web Analytics, explains BackType founder and

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What is the YouTube Partner Programme?The YouTube Partner Programme allows you to make money off your videos hosted on YouTube through revenue sharing, by allowing advertisements to be displayed on your videos. If you choose to have ad-supported videos, then ads are chosen automatically by YouTube’s system based on a number of factors (such as video category, etc).Being a YouTube Partner also

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If you have a Google Product account (which feeds your products into Google Shopping), you will have recently been contacted by Google to let you know that there are important updates needed to your company's “Google product search feed”.Google has made changes to the way website owners/managers submit their product data to Google Product Search. Google has supplied the new product feed

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Geek Video of the month is going to Video Mash Up Artist Swede Mason.We are simply loving his work. The above video mash up Masterchef Synesthesia is our personal favourite, and has become a viral phenomenon.Last time we looked it has had over 2 million and a half views, so impressive. If you are a fan of Top Gear, make sure you also check out the Jeremy Clarkson Beatbox video.Pure Video Editing

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We are big fans of Common Craft videos as they have a great ability of simplifying a technical subject matter. The above image links to a “for evaluation only Common Craft video” to explain about the basics of cloud computing, how it works and how businesses and individuals can use the Cloud to spend less time worrying about technology and focus on what matters (their growing business). The

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HTML5 is the next iteration of the technology used to structure and present content on the World Wide Web, short for HyperText Markup Language. Although most of the elements are already defined by W3C and implementable, it is not due for W3C Recommendation until 2022.A major advantage of developing in HTML5 is as a replacement for Flash in graphically rich websites. Currently, if you visit a site

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This month the blog is related to topics that the Rocktime Technical Team discuss. In this blog Craig talks iFrames and Facebook. Think of it as a 'Window within a browser'.Facebook, as of February 2011, officially allowed the use of iFrames; allowing users to build fully customised facebook pages for their custom page tabs.An iFrame is a section within a web page that can display another web

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Introduction to this month's guest Blogger: Laura Bentham from C4L (Bournemouth Offices). C4L offer secure, 24/7, high speed connectivity to 26 data centres across the UK and Europe. Rocktime and C4L have a very close working relationship; developed through years of partnering on colocation projects together, helping clients to choose the best Internet Infrastructure and connectivity solutions.

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Tech Crunch has just reported "Twitter Comes Alive With Real Time Activity Streams". They highlight, with the above image, the birth of the new tab, called 'activity', which will sit alongside an @ username tab. As we are huge fans of what we class as "networks of interaction", we really love this development and are looking forward to the UK roll out. Find out more about the Real Time

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This month we have a technical focus on the blog. Members of 'The Rocktime Tech Team' will be sharing their knowledge on some of the latest tech developments. Kicking off proceedings the first blog of the month comes from Foz, as he introduces us all to Favicons.A favicon, also known as a website icon, a shortcut icon, a url icon, or bookmark icon, is a small icon that can be used in several

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This month we’ve got a tech focus and our Geek Video this time takes a peak into the world of 3D displays.It seems that 2011 is turning into the year of 3D; we’ve had 3D televisions, an influx of 3D films and even 3D hand held consoles, and that’s just the start of it all. Before feeling the need to splash out on any new 3D devices that are inevitably going to crop up in time, why not take a look

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The conversation on social media in our society is changing. Watch any TV show, listen to any Radio show and hear the presenters state their “Twitter and Facebook Page” names to encourage further interaction. There is also clear numerical evidence (for example: 600 million people on Facebook, June 2011) that people want to share online. Companies contact Rocktime to enquire about how they can

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Aurasma is powered by pattern recognition technology; it represents the future of how we use our mobile devises, using some of the most advanced systems in the world to bring the physical and virtual worlds together.It has been described as the latest ad recognition technology to challenge QR codes, it has the ability to bring static content / print materials to life.PR Newswire reported early

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This month’s Geek Video combines one of our themes of the month, social commerce, and our love of anything Smartphone and App based into one neat little package.Last month saw the release of Pizza Express and PayPal’s innovative new app, combining the physical retail industry with online payments for the first time in the UK market. As demonstrated in the video above, it’s not just about paying!

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This month on the blog we will be discussing what we love about Social Commerce. We aim to talk about word of mouth marketing, social commerce websites we like, integrating your shop with Facebook and social commerce functionality we recommend. Retail / E-Tail has entered a new phrase where product discovery and purchase decisions are informed by the collective and distributed via social

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There are many different channels open to spam; it is always annoying, often disruptive, sometimes expensive to repair and frequently avoidable.The main area of spam in the past had been from unsolicited bulk email messages sent indiscriminately. In today’s blog post, we are concerned with protecting ourselves on social networks and especially Facebook.There are some interesting words we hear,

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This month we’re talking channels and channel optimisation. There’s a dauntingly huge variety of channels you can use to distribute your content, but perhaps one of the most popular and well known (for video at least) would have to be YouTube.Prior to YouTube’s release in 2005, there were few easy methods available for your average Joe with a computer to post videos online. Its simple interface

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Alice Cheetham shares her tips on creating a Facebook page. If you have any additional feedback you would like to share, please do send in a comment.I’ll admit, we do talk a lot about Facebook, but boasting over 500 million active users and said users spending over an estimated 700 BILLION minutes per month alone on Facebook, you can’t blame us.This month, as you might have noticed, we’re talking

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A few months ago, Google released their +1 button on English search results on Google.com. The objective of the +1 button is to make search more personally relevant to you.The above video provides a good introduction to how this all links with Google Social Search.If you are running a Google Adwords account, you should have received an email this morning to say that in the coming weeks, you will

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As this month’s blog focus is on Channel Optimisation we thought to send a shout out to PlayStation for turning around their crisis, after announcing in early May that hackers accessed the 10 Sony Servers obtaining personal details of their users. There was criticism at the time, that PlayStation took around 2 weeks, to tell its users the servers had been breached. This really wasn’t “best

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IntroductionWe continue to discuss channel optimisation this month, on the Rocktime blog. This week Fiona discusses her experience in using both photo sharing tools, Flickr and Picasa. She highlights which channel she prefers to use and which she would recommend to Rocktime clients.In her estimation, Picasa is better than Flickr for certain clients, find out why below, and feel free to

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We really enjoyed the graphics on this video, which outlines the 15 'snack bite facts and conclusions' to know about the future of the Internet in 2015. The video is from research conducted by NeoLabs, find out more about them here.Two snippets we particularly like include:Mobile-only Internet population will grow 56-fold, up to 788 million by the end of 2015The TV experience will be more

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As we are talking about optimising channels this month. We thought it would be an ideal time to share with you the irkafirka blog which hosts the strapline “anything you say may be taken down and coloured in”.We found out about irkafirka over at the BBC website a couple of months ago in a post 'In pictures, Tweet modern'. Since then we have been regular visitors to their blog. The BBC articles

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This month we have a big focus on channel optimisation. We are reviewing the objectives of our own digital channels, reviewing success and integrating future developments of the channels into our wider Marketing Mix. This blog post seeks to share with you some ideas on how you can consider optimising your own channels for your online or offline business.Definition of channel A channel, could

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This blog post is in celebration of the Google Panda Update. Google Panda has a quest to filter out low quality and duplicate pages from the Google search pages. The algorithms are searching for pages that are deemed ‘not useful’ to search engine visitors.This month we have provided you (our readers), with information that we deem to be useful, answering some of the common questions from our

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Advice about the EU Cookie DirectiveDid you know that new EU legislation was brought in to effect from 26th May 2011 which will force online businesses to request “explicit consent” from their website visitors, to be able to store cookies on their PC?A cookie is a common technique used by website owners to store information in a small file which is placed on a visitor’s computer, so that it can

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Promotions have become a core component of brand presence on Facebook. By offering a prize or experience, brands can encourage users to “Like” their pages and share the branded links with friends. Competitions, contests and giveaways are a great way to increase your fans, increase awareness of your page and retain their interest and keep them engaged. Last week Facebook made some quite

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Sharing Useful Content Last month we shared with you a number of blogs which focused on local targeted search campaigns. This month is all about sharing useful content. To kick off our useful content blogs, a common question asked by our clients is "How do I edit a PDF". They may wish to update contact details, or add more prominent 'calls to action' on product PDFs. Sharing with you our

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What is a Microsite?As you may already be aware, our blog focus for May is creating useful content. We are answering questions this month such as “How to edit a PDF” among other topics. This week we are answering the question, “Do I need a microsite?”. We will begin by outlining the pros and cons of implementing, we have also outlined ‘what a microsite is’. We hope you find it useful!Wikipedia

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You may remember us talking about Foursquare before; we’ve even done an introductory post on Foursquare for businesses here on the blog. As it is operation sharing useful content on the blog this month, a couple of days ago we found this great article from Mashable on how to set up a Foursquare Special, which we just had to share with you.How to: Set up a FourSquare Special by Lauren Drell,

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As our blog focus in May, is all about sharing useful content. This months’ Geek Video of the Month goes to all the videos produced over at Lady Geek TV. The Rocktime ladies regularly check in to the site, which offers an online series of shows aimed at making technology accessible, fun and useful to women. The websites objective being to highlight the very best in smart phone apps available,

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This month we’re talking "local targeting" at Rocktime and it looks like we’re not the only ones. April sees the release of the Google Places Business Kit Catalogue! Google is offering free promotional materials for qualifying businesses, allowing business owners to order in a whole range of goodies, from window stickers to neon signs and fortune cookies to sugar packets; a variety of goods for a

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This month at Rocktime we’ve got our eye on local targeting, and April is our official “Operation Local Search Marketing” month! Local listings and local promotion sites will of course be of strongest benefit to those who wish to increase their local business reach. Local is a pretty hot topic right now, and with good reason too as for starters, the Google Local Search Algorithm continues to

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As it is “Operation Local Search Marketing” month, this month here at Rocktime, thought to share with you how much we love, Google AdWords' move to add location extensions to the PPC account adverts. Great example of Fitness First using this service above (see image or Google search Fitness First).Basic summary is, you link your Google Places Adverts to your AdWords campaign. This is another

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This month at Rocktime we’re big on Local Targeting, so our Geek Video of the month is focusing on Google’s location based recommendation engine 'Hotpot'.Released in November last year, Mashable added a great summary of Google Hotpot in their article here; Google Unveils Hotpot, a Recommendation Engine for Places."Hotpot takes all of Google Places‘ ratings and reviews features and adds a more

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As we have clients in the education market, this morning we have taken time out to find out a bit more about “Google Apps for Education”, which offer free (and advert free) set of customisable tools to enable faculty, staff and students to work together more effectively. More than 10 million students use Google Apps. A quick scan of the news and official posts from Google shows that this is

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Natural disasters are a terrible occurrence, and two huge earthquakes in as many months is a reminder of how unstable and unpredictable our environment can be at times. The most recent, an 8.9 magnitude earthquake not far from the coast of Japan early Friday morning on March 11th, certainly gave me a personal pause for thought.Having a number of friends living and working throughout Japan led me

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Via a Re Tweet from the top content seeder Chris @techzadar we read over at Gizmos for Geeks this morning, that Twitter is promoting the "always use HTTPS" feature in the account settings.We and Gizmos for Geeks advise that you enable this now.Reason being it will improve the security on your account. Gizmo for Geeks say that“this security feature is particularly important when you are out and

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Studies are indicating that people are increasingly likely to leave their laptops at the office and use their mobiles for web browsing on the move. We are advising our clients to mobilise their websites, so that their customers can find them from mobile search and most importantly be able to access and navigate their sites with ease from a mobile. In creating a mobile site the Flashlight

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Back in April 2010 we discussed the new paid for models being proposed for Twitter, under the blog title Twitter Simplifies it's Business Model - #not.We have been monitoring take up of the service. On the 4th of October Twitter officially launched the promoted accounts; View related article on Mashable here: http://mashable.com/2010/10/04/twitter-launches-promoted-accounts/We are talking about

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If you are on Twitter, you may have noticed the launch of the Celebrity Twit Relief Campaign for Comic Relief. The concept being: you can bid for Celebrities to follow you on Twitter for 90 days, they re-tweet one of your tweets, plus there is a chance to also win amazing ‘extras’ in a celebrity auction.The #Twitrelief celebrity auction is in aid of Comic Relief’s work in the UK and Africa and

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The Search Marketers here at Rocktime liked this Video on Youtube. The video which was listed in Mashables 10 most innovative viral videos ads in 2010 shows a race between Google Chrome loading up a webpage and a potato getting turned into Chips.It certainly gets the message across.If you are finding that your web pages load slowly or don’t load at all in Google Chrome then view the suggestions

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We received news this morning that Google have expanded their Social Search networking platform, so thought to share the news with you with the above video which explains what it is all about. It is very exciting indeed and something that we have been preparing for, for some time now.The big factor in all this, is that Google have said that it will prioritising pages in the search results that

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We talked about augmented reality briefly with our Geek Video of the month, and here it is again! EBay has had huge success with its mobile e-commerce and now they’re trying their luck with something new; the release of their Augmented Reality upgrade to the eBay Fashion App last month.The app is broken down into two main components; the ‘See it now’, as shown above, allows the user to take a

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We were recently contacted by a client with regards to bidding on a competitor's brand name.Sharing the information supplied here, as may be of use to you, our readers.In May 2008, Google stated that keywords that were disabled as a result of a trademark complaint and investigation will no longer be restricted in the UK and Ireland. Google stated that they will no longer review a term

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Here at Rocktime we do like mobile apps and here's a pretty innovative one! On holiday abroad and your linguistic skills not quite up to scratch? Bust out your iPhone and let Word Lens take a look at it!Word Lens by Quest Visual works by looking up translations from its built in dictionary and then using augmented reality to translate in real time on the screen, without the need for an internet

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We all know that Facebook is a master at ‘targeting’, be it by relationship, birthday or keyword and has built connection targeting tools like Fans, Applications, Groups and Events. It’s fair to say that Facebook is now set to dominate targeting by location.I was encouraged to hear on Monday 31 January 2011 of the announcement that 'Facebook Deals' had launched in the UK, and thought to blog my

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Alice Cheetham started at Rocktime in September to cover Kaylee’s Maternity leave, in general practice with new recruits, we ask them a series of random questions and we share the answers with you.Find out what the above picture relates to below.+ What is your current job at Rocktime?: Receptionist/Admin+ What does being a Receptionist/Admin involve?: I act as the first point of contact for

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Early this month Foursquare announced the revamped Foursquare for Business pages, complete with tools for merchants, venues and brands. We have been very excited about this development and thought it was about time to share the news with you guys.We wrote about Foursquare back in June 2010: with the post 5 reasons hotels should be using the Geo location based portal. As a recap FourSquare allows

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This year one of our New Year Resolutions is to share with you more content about our personal experiences with online technologies. Martin Bradbury, Business Development at Rocktime is kick starting us off, as he talks about his experience and thoughts on mCommerce, enjoy.My thoughts on mCommerceI recently purchased an Android Powered smart phone, and I find myself very amenable to buying apps

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The Flashlight Seach Marketing Team at Rocktime would like to share with you their top ten mobile marketing resolutions for the New Year. Need any help setting up yours?Then feel free to get in touch with Rocktime Sales to arrange a meeting.Rocktime's top ten mobile marketing resolutions1. Educate others to think of mobile marketing as a strategy2. Assist others to understand more about how

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The Flashlight Search Marketing Team at Rocktime would like to share with you their top ten search engine optimisation resolutions for the New Year. Need any help setting up yours?Then feel free to get in touch with Rocktime Sales to arrange a meetingRocktime's top ten SEO / SEM resolutions Review keyword density on our product pagesReoptimise our page titles and descriptionsConsider what we are

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The Flashlight Search Marketing Team at Rocktime would like to share with you their top ten social media resolutions for the New Year. Need any help setting up yours?Then feel free to get in touch with Rocktime Sales to arrange a meeting.Rocktime's top ten social media resolutionsShare more about what we are learning in houseEngage more online & offline with our partnersCreate better content for

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This week the Flashlight Team will be sharing with you their Search Marketing (SEM) New Year's Resolutions for 2011, focused on SEO, PPC, Social Media and Mobile Marketing.Sarah (@sarahgriffiths), 'Head of Search' at Rocktime says:"We are very excited about our 2011 plans and throughout January will be setting some large ROI targets to grow the Flashlight division further, a large focus for our

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This month’s Geek Video chosen by Dan (Rocktime: Web Developer). Dan wishes to send Geek Cred to the Lego Antikythera Mechanism.The machine, modelled after the ancient Greek original, can calculate the date and time of the solar and lunar eclipse over a hundred year period – and guess what it is made of LEGO.The guy who built this amazingly geeky machine is Andrew Carol, who has passion for

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From all of us at Rocktime we would like to thank you for your valued business during 2010.Our Christmas and New Year Shut down times are listed over at our Contact Us page.We are looking forward to blogging some more into 2011 and sharing with you more tips, insights and fun on topics relating to our Team, Web Development, Ecommerce, Social Media, Mobile Marketing, Web Analytics, Web Consultancy

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As a fresh post-graduate from University into the big wide world, with several friends still in academia, I've been watching the tuition fee debate with more then a passing interest. Whilst the student protests in London may have been a huge part of raising awareness of the debate, a protest of 20,000 people isn't a simple case of asking your mates to put together some witty placards and gather

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Thought to share with you this video from this time last year, when Matt Cutts (Google's Head of Webspam team) answered questions about the future of search in the next few years.He ends the video with a few words about mobile search, saying that he sees a lot of potential growth in that area of search. "You're going to see all kind of changes, but mobile going to be a big part of it". We are

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Motion sensing is probably one of the big modern fads of the moment in console gaming. First off the starting line we had the Nintendo Wii in 2006, a few months ago saw the release of the Playstation Move - a similiar concept to the Wii as an addition to the Playstation 3 console. Most recently last month we had the release of the Kinect for the Xbox 360. Possibly one of the most interesting of

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A big well done to the little yellow YouTube subscriber button which made its debut back in 2006: It was reported by YouTube (28th Oct 2010), that fifteen YouTube Channels have now crossed the one million subscribers mark. Pretty impressive !!If all this talk of subscriptions is new to you, then YouTube suggest you check out the above video, in which dear Cuddles tells you all you need to know

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In a change from the Dorset norm we all woke up this morning to flurries of white and a whopping 8 inches of snow in some places. Possibly making a few trips to work this morning a little more exciting then we'd ever want!This masterpiece appeared outside our office courtesy of Andy, Dan and Dave from our Tech team sporting a jaunty hat and Fiona's fluffy scarf.We hope nobody had any snow based

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More companies are noting in their web analytics that an increased number of people are using their mobiles to access their site, along side this there are increasing news reports highlighting that more and more people are using their mobiles to perform extensive research before making a purchase. Following these trends it isn’t surprising that Rocktime are receiving an increased number of calls

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Giving further credence to the power of social networking, on the 2nd of November, eBay launched their Group Gifts service in the US (just in time for Christmas). See the above promo video from eBay which invites you to think 'Big'.The service has been designed, say eBay to make “it easier for friends and relatives to chip in for gifts because it eliminates the headache of collecting

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Facebook say Facebook Pages allow you to: “Connect with your audience, share your story and participate in real-time conversations quickly and easily on Facebook”. Read more over at Facebook here; http://www.facebook.com/FacebookPagesThe below provides quick tips from the Rocktime Flashlight team on how to build a community on Facebook using Facebook Pages.Building the Authentic CommunityFacebook

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We have been moaning recently about the premature Christmas adverts on the telly, which all seem to include dancing & singing this year (Iceland, M&S, Confused.com). We are pretty confident that they will all become very annoying by the time Christmas arrives.But here's something that we're not moaning about; Amazon has brought the American "Black Friday" retail campaign to the UK. Yeah!! A

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Most of us have heard of augmented reality, but what about diminished reality? The name is pretty self explanatory, and here's a pretty amazing example! This video was put together as a research project by Jan Herling and Wolfgang Broll from the Illmenau University of Technology in Germany and gives a fantastic demonstration of a diminished reality in your own home.Just think of the possibilities

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What are QR codes?QR (Quick Response) codes are similar to bar codes, but they are two dimensional and therefore these codes can hold a lot more information than a standard barcode found on many products (up to 10 numerical digits).QR Codes allow everyday items to become a website (print to mobile to web messaging), a QR code can be used to store information such as text, URLs or any other data.

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Weighted sort is a welcomed new feature in Google Analytics for all of us who have been using column sorting and desiring a way to have actual, useful meaning behind it. Google introduce the new weighted sort feature over at their blog, and have provided the above video to help explain further. 
When somethings new in Web Analytics the first place I go is Avinash Kaushik’s Blog, he is a total

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MePlease has announced the launch of its social media and mobile platform, which enables businesses to connect with customers on their mobile, along with offering very easy social media sharing. This integrated social media and mobile platform, will help transform relationships between businesses and customers via social media & mobile marketing. We are very excited indeed !!Last week we heard

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In Celebration of National Poetry Day, with this year’s theme of "Home". We spend 35% of our day at the Rocktime Offices, so I decided to write an Ode to Rocktime, sharing with you all here, enjoy:Ode to RocktimeIn south England, Poole resides,A digital agency named Rocktime,Who laid down their creative tech foundations,Back in nineteen ninety nine.They offer cutting edge development,Using the

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This months Geek Video of the month is the piece put together exploring the basis behind the YouTube Play Contest.A collaboration between YouTube and the renown Guggenheim Museum, New York. A phenominal 23,000 submissions have been whittled down to 125 fantastially creative videos from over 91 countries. You can view the shortlisted videos now over on the Youtube Play channel.Later this month the

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Last week, Google gave its URL shortening service Goo.gl, its own website, opening the shorten URL service to all. A handy tool for creating short URLS that can be easily shared tweeted or emailed to friends.The URL shortener has been available in other Google products, Maps, News, Blogger for sometime, and we are pleased that it is now it is open to everyone whether you are logged into Google

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Twitter which is signing up 370,000 new users daily on average are redesigning their site to make it easier for users to navigate and find related information, making Twitter much more of an information resource, rather than just a place to network.This is big news and we can already predict that engagement levels will rise.Forrester analyst Augie Ray said the Twitter redesign should help improve

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The above table from http://www.emarketer.com/, which is backed up by an ExactTarget study, reproduced by eMarketer, assists with the "influence over numbers argument" on Twitter, as it shows that US Twitter user's in April 2010 were far more interactive online, than general internet users.The results table indicates that US Twitter user’s were more likely than general internet users to post to

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The Galaxy Tab. Potential iPad contender?We have talked quite a bit about the iPad on this blog, so we thought to shout about one of the so called challengers to the Apple iPad: introducing “The Galaxy Tab”. We like the fact that they show a number of scenes on the video which are missing with the Apple devise (walking down the street, riding a bike etc). They are also pushing the most used

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A new eBay for Charity feature allows you to set your favourite charity on eBay, so that you can support them whenever you buy and sell.To celebrate the launch of ‘My Favourite Charity’, eBay is awarding grants of up to £5,000 to the three charities that receive the most votes as favourite in September.Visit My Favourite Charity to see which charities Tess Daly, Sharon Osborne, Helen Mirren,

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Facebook have just launched their geolocation service, Facebook Places in the US. Read about it on the Facebook Blog here: Partnering with sites which offer similar service: Gowalla, Yelp, FourAquare, Booyah.The Flashlight team thought it was quite amusing that: ZDNet described the news as 'the worst kept secret since, Apple's iPhone 4'.The app will allow Facebook users to provide real time

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As we are big fans of gaming here at Rocktime, we thought to share with you this new and bordering on ridiculous (health and safety!!) but cool way of turning your chair into a gaming experience with motion. I wonder whether Alex will allow us to build one of these in the office? This video is playing a F1 game, makes me feel quite queasy but wins Geek Video of the month.

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Yesterday the Flashlight team were discussing Google's announcement of changes to their Google Adwords trademark policy, reviewing how it affects us in the UK.In a nutshell, Google will no longer prevent advertisers from selecting a third party’s trade mark as a keyword.There are still restrictions for using a trade mark as a keyword in your advert text. You can put in a complaint to Google if

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If 25 people or more are connected to your page, you can select a username for your Facebook page or Facebook profile by going to: http://www.facebook.com/username/. The Page username must be at least five characters in length and only include alphanumeric characters (A-Z, 0-9), or a period or full stop (“.”).Facebook state: “The selected username should clearly identify the artist or business

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We are back to promote the RNLI Life Boat Lottery. To help the RNLI save lives at sea and be in with a chance to win with the Lifeboat Lottery read on. (Sourced above image from RNLI website).The draw ends on the 10 September 2010.We are sharing our support as the RNLI are just a stone throw away from our offices in Poole. The RNLI is an independent charity; this means they don’t receive any

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In celebration of the start of the Online Marketing Summit kicking off in New York today Kaylee has kitted out her baby bump with a NY Big Apple. We won’t be attending the Online Marketing Summit but we will be viewing the Virtual Summit On Demand, and checking up on trends on Twitter.Find out more about it here: http://www.onlinemarketingsummit.com/spring-2010-omvs/The Online Marketing Virtual

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This Apple iPad live Finger Painting demo is pretty awesome and wins hands down for Rocktimes Geek Video of the month. Great to see a creative use for the iPad with the Brushes App. I want one! :-)Author: Kaylee Bradley

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