Mar 16th, 2010
by Vicky Farrand.
Lesson #1
Bonjour mon ami,
Unfortunately that is about as far as my French goes. But it’s not for lack of trying; it’s more for a lack of teachers.
Since leaving university, JFGI has become the typical response to most questions I’ve asked. So the purpose of this regular post is to encourage everyone to become a teacher [...]
Mar 3rd, 2010
by Alastair Bevan.
Welcome to swampround, our regular new round-up of stuff that’s caught our collective eye in the wonderful world of the web recently (not as painful as it sounds).
We hope you enjoy our collection of cool, weird and interesting stories from the digital world. Feel free to comment or let us know if there’s something you [...]
Feb 4th, 2010
by James Wheatley.
Steve Jobs (apparently) doesn’t like Adobe. He called them lazy and says that Flash is buggy and causes systems to crash. Flash is notoriously slow on a Mac and in its 3 year existence the iPhone has never supported it, now it appears the iPad won’t support it either. Apple lovers better get ready to [...]
Jan 18th, 2010
by Matt Redford.
Remember the days when you thought Internet Explorer was the only thing you could use to get on t’internet? Mozilla’s Firefox was the 1st browser to seriously challenge the monopoly. In more recent times a browser from Google (a monopoly in its own speciality – search) has launched another worthy browser – Chrome.
Enter Chrome
It was [...]
Jan 4th, 2010
by James Sloan.
With Christmas and 2009 now behind us and a new year (and decade) upon us, I thought I would do what many others do at this time of year and look at booking a holiday for 2010.
Having settled on my destination and the London airport I will fly from, I started looking at options for [...]
Oct 15th, 2009
by Ally Manock.
At swamp, we love learning, we love opinions and we love having a debate.
We’ve been ‘doing digital’ for a long time, but we will always be continuing our digital education. The Internet is constantly evolving and
swamp runs BrahmTech for our whole full-service agency, Brahm. We have talks from people within swamp and also from companies [...]
Oct 6th, 2009
by Claire Stanley.
On Thursday last week, Google announced that they are now able to track post impression conversions on the content network (Google’s network of websites that accept ads). This means that all conversions attributable to online display rather than just click conversions will be counted.
Definitions:
A ‘conversion’ is when a visitor to your website does a [...]
Sep 21st, 2009
by Ally Manock.
Microsoft is launching a pilot this month testing new PPC ad formats on Bing using logos and favicons embedded in the listings (reported by Mediapost yesterday). Microsoft are hoping that these new formats will make the PPC ad more “visually appealing” to the consumer and will encourage digital agencies like ourselves to spend more of [...]