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In 2011 Google did the unthinkable or for a lot of people, the “about time” by dropping their all new Panda algorithm that would change the old school way that it had spidered and indexed sites previously. This in part was a pre-cursor for Google+ and more social results, but more importantly to weed out and drop the spam and poor content that ...

2011 ended pretty much as it began, and at the same lightening speed... seems to be true what your parents and grand parents tell you, that the older you get the quicker the time passes, and this year seemed to go particularly fast, well in this bloggers opinion at least! 2011 saw a number of key events, and one of those was the inevitable ...

I realized that I haven't been on here since 2010 with a post about how times have changed within Retail where it used to be a big NO having cameras in your store http://tinyurl.com/Madman2010 Since then, I have blogged elsewhere, written papers, produced music and other good stuff... So 2011, and a return to where it all started with my ...

My how we have come a long way since I first began in Retail, goodness that was over 20 years ago! Back then we had no internet, comparison shopping was walking down main street, or the emerging shopping malls. Social Commerce was listening to what your friends had said about a product or store, and whatever the store had information ...

At what point do retailers embrace the social shopping sphere? From reviews, comments, payments, marketing and brand voice, where and how do they begin? There are so many social networks and sites here today gone tomorrow that retailers and brands are  concerned that there either too late, too early or will waste their money on something that ...

Firstly some exciting news from January 2009 The Diary of A Madman Blog will also be available as Podcast of a Madman  with the usual ranting's and good stuff, as well as a whole host of other media that I can only talk about, but the podcast you can also listen, watch and view some episodes - all be announced and then you can subscribe and ...

  Just as the George Lucas sci-fi classic ran for years and years - such is the space for mobile devices - and the Mobile War that will undoubtedly erupt over the coming years I'm sure that the "Empire (may well try to) Strike Back" however with the latest glut of new touch phones arriving on the scene such as the Samsung Omnia ...

With the concept of ‘fluid formats’ where consumers / viewers are setting their own viewing schedules for TV programming through the use of Personal Video Recorders (PVRs) like Tivo and Sky+, advertisers have been worried for a while. For a long time, we’ve held the attitude at Conchango that to get the attention of viewers is not hard, but to ...

Following up quickly from my last blog - where do I see some of the key highlights and what Conchango are talking about with our clients and potential clients is how you structure ''your cloud'' in order to make it accessible, visible and indexed correctly. Gone are the days where you can just pump content and data up to a virtual storage ...

A little while ago along with my usual ranting and ramblings I actually was strapped down and forced to write in a cohesive and structured manner. This of course goes against the grain of what I do - as I like to ramble on and on and go off in various tangents (I'm like that when speaking as well :) - but when asked by Miss D & Miss B to ...