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Facebook Mortgages, Facebook Digestives or Facebook Emails…

November 17th, 2010

Which one do you think is true? It is the last one, personally I don’t think it’s too long before I’m paying into the bank of Facebook and dunking my Facebook digestives in my Google brew. Maybe not but we’re getting there.

Plus just a little note before we begin, I’m not a techie I’m a…a creative (pah!) right lets just say I do words, I just thought I’d get that in there before you start laughing at me when I get my Hmail and my Gotmails mixed up…wait a minute? Read more…

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Google Instant

September 9th, 2010

It’s that time again people. Time for another roll out from Google which may or may not change the SEO game. This time it’s not a Wave, Buzz but another beverage based update called Google Instant. It’s the big G’s way of speeding up searches and giving Bing something more to sweat about. Google has been concentrating on producing faster search results previously encouraging webmasters to decrease their page sizes and speed up their sites. Now with Instant they are making a huge leap in the speed that they deliver results. Read more…

Industry News

How much does your website cost you longterm?

June 25th, 2010

Anyone looking at the BBC website today cannot fail to see the news story ‘Government to axe hundreds of ‘unnecessary’ websites‘. It refers to the fact that the Government are going to review all of their 820 existing websites and retire a portion of them in a bid to cut costs and save £100m.

When I was reading through the article a few figures jumped out at me (not least the £4m cost to build the UK Trade and Investment website!) If you look through the article and do the sums you’ll see that in 2009 – 2010: Read more…

Industry News, Web Design

The demise of Bebo

May 3rd, 2010

In the beginning, God created MySpace, then Rupert Murdoch bought it in 2005 and then it became old news! (see what I did there?). The purchase of Bebo by AOL in 2008 perhaps marked a similar fate for the once enthusiastic puppy of the social networking world, now it’s an old dog with no new tricks and is at the risk of falling out of favour and being replaced with a new breed. Read more…

Branding, Industry News

It’s that Twestival time of year again.

March 5th, 2010

GTwestival 25th March

Last September a group of Twitter users got together in 130 cities for a Twestival. In the process they raised over $450k for 135 charities (£3675 from Glasgow) – Not bad for a night of partying and putting faces to Twitter avatars!

This March (the 25th to be precise) sees another Twestival in Glasgow (GTwestival). This year we will be raising money for Concern Worldwide who provide access to education for some of the world’s poorest children. So, save the date and get ready to buy your ticket very, very shortly!

Read more and learn how you can help

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PSYBT Regional Business Award – Glasgow

September 4th, 2009

On Thursday 3rd September 2009 (let’s refer to it as ‘yesterday’), PoLR Ltd made it to the final of the PSYBT Regional Business Award (Glasgow region) and finished as very respectable Runners Up! Read more…

Business Development, Industry News, Team News