By Steve Downes, Managing Director I am a huge fan of Facebook. I’m not, personally a heavy user of it, I prefer Twitter and LinkedIn, but am very involved with it professionally. I have enormous admiration and gratitude for it. Without it social networking would be nowhere near where it is today and that’s brought [...]

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) are hot on the news agenda at the moment after a global strike took place.   The big sites in the digital/tech world went ‘dark’ for 24 hours to protest the so called ‘Internet Blacklist bill’…Google even blacked out its logo! Why? It’s because [...]

For a while I’ve been wondering how Google would keep from allowing their personal interest in entering the social networking arena from affecting their objectivity in the business of “Search”.  Well, the results are in!  Coincidentally just a day after speaking about just this subject with my colleague Steve Downes (@stevejuice), Mashable published this story about the [...]

By Steve Downes Like everyone else in the marketing world , I’ve been  fascinated by Google’s launch of ‘Search Plus Your World’ This is all about this Basically, Google has played its trump card in its, so far unsuccessful, attempt to be a major player (or indeed dominate) the social space as it does search. [...]

  “Manchester is the place where people do things. There, you don’t talk about what you are going to do, you do it.’ That is the Manchester habit. And in the past through the manifestation of this quality the word Manchester became a synonym for energy and freedom and the right to do and to [...]