Taking a leak will never have to be boring again!

Thank you to everyone who came to to the event a couple of weeks ago- Kids, adults and dogs! It was good to see some old and new faces.

Although we didn’t manage to reach our target of £500, we managed to beat lasts years total and collected £380 which is much appreciated

I would also like to send a BIG thankyou to Fari Peyman and Carolyn Peyman for hosting the event and to all those who baked cakes.

Join Notting Hill Internet Services on Friday 30th September for the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning, where we will be raising money for Macmillan Cancer Support.

Last year we raised £300 and hope to beat that by raising £500 this year! We would like to invite everyone to join us on Friday 30th September for coffee, tea, juices and cakes at our office in Ladbroke Grove between 9am and 12pm.

Come down to socialise and snack. No one really works on a Friday anyway!

Hope to see you all there

Microsoft 8 will make flash available on it’s traditional PCs but not for it’s touch specific type products i.e. the tablet, therefore there will be two versions of Internet Explorer 10.

Dean Hachamovitch, head of Microsoft’s IE team, stated that ultimately, replacing flash with HTML5 on the tablet will prolong battery life, security and reliability and that flash isn’t needed for streaming videos or surfing the web. These reasons given by Hachamovitch are nearly identical to the thoughts of Steve Jobs, the former Apple CEO.

With Apple, Microsoft and web experts like ourselves dismissing the use of the plug-in, can this be the beginning of the end for flash?

Special thanks go to:

* Nespresso for providing cups and sugar sachets

* Olga Lacigova and Susie Ruston for baking cakes

* The local Macmillan Fundraising team in Hammersmith

and of course everyone who took the time to join us and raise money for such a worthy cause.

Please try and pop-in, even for a few minutes.  It is such a worthy cause plus we will have lots of tempting refreshments on offer.

See you there!

There is nothing the usually benign (though swift to become a baying horde) citizens of Twitter like less than duplicity. McKeith’s big mistake was not in trying to defend an unpopular view: Twitter is populated with many millions of users doing just that every day, both for comedic and more sinister purposes.

Her mistake was in subsequently trying to cover up her comments. That she did so ineffectually barely matters: even if all trace had been eradicated from her own website; even if her dissenters hadn’t been carefully taking screenshots and retweeting for future evidence, McKeith is clearly unaware that these days, almost all web presence is aggregated, mirrored, and pushed out in countless places across the Internet.

Forget the Wayback machine: these days Twitter has its own archive. Furthermore, many folks link up their Facebook and Twitter profiles, and perhaps throw LinkedIn to the mix, too, meaning that your words are spread far beyond a single website. Then there are sites which collect all tweets on a certain subject and replicate them – without so much as a by your leave.

In short, your Twitter status updates, and all web content, should be thought of as a permanent record. That’s why, if you are representing your business online, you should exhibit the utmost transparency and honesty – and furthermore, you should think carefully about which members of your business you trust to do the same.

We’ve said it before, and we’ll keep on saying it: social media is a fantastic tool for business promotion, but for heaven’s sake be careful what you write.

One remarkable fact that comes from the reports of the new government’s backdown is that as well as the two million homes in the UK who cannot get speeds as high as 2Mbps, about 160,000 households still cannot get any form of broadband at all. These are homes in remote and rural areas, who were presumably without power of any sort not terribly long ago, but it is certainly worth remembering that you may still have customers on dial-up… if they have internet access at all. Others may be accessing via cyber cafes and community centres, meaning hurried visits as the clock ticks away on a paid-for slot.

The low-tech solution? If you happen to have rich content such as videos or Flash, offer a pared-down site with the essentials on it too. Plus, you might want to give a phone number you can be contacted on, alongside your email address. Two million households represents a lot of potential customers, and they will be grateful for your concessons.

Here’s proof, if it were needed, of Twitter’s ever-increasing omnipotence: babies can now tweet from the womb. Yes, back in February, we reported that dogs can tweet: in our estimation, this is a step further into the realm of… well, the rather ridiculous.

The Kickbee is a fabric band that the pregnant mother can wear while relaxing on the sofa. Dad at work? No problem – with every kick of the foetus, he’ll get a little alert on Twitter to remind him of what is growing back home. Just take a look at the video above for a graphic representation.

So, what’s next? Tweeting from beyond the grave? You know, somehow I wouldn’t be surprised if someone came up with that next.

The European Commission Competition Chief, Joaquin Almunia, is currently investigating the claims of three firms who claim that Google, far from sticking to the objective algorithms it is so well-known for basing its results on, is deliberately downgrading them.

The aggrieved companies are Foundem, a price comparison site, ejustice.fr, a French legal search engine, and – most interesting perhaps, given the rivalry between the two companies – Ciao, which is owned by Microsoft.

While we would agree that Google is not always blameless in its various activities, we’d be willing to bet that they will be found innocent on this one. Their algorithms are so complex that we could foresee a situation where sites were accidentally penalised, sure. Plus, Google does also automatically blacklist sites which adhere to any one of several practices it frowns upon, all of which fall under the banner of ‘black hat’ SEO. Might these sites have fallen foul of the sometimes labyrinthine guidelines?

Whatever the case, we’ve seen many a website owner who was convinced that Google had a personal grudge against his site. In every case, it turned out not to be so.

One of our many services for small businesses is checking that your site has nothing in place that might mitigate against your Google rankings. If you are thinking you have a lot in common with Foundem, ejustice and Ciao, why not give us a ring and we’ll see if we can get to the bottom of it for you.