This week has seen two of the Net’s biggest names clashing over the subject of blogging. There’s been a lot of talk about company blogs and how necessary they are.
Nicholas Carr started the week by giving his rules for corporate blogs. And yesterday Robert Scoble (of Microsoft) and Shel Israel [...]

I was interested to read Seth Godin’s post about investing in meetings as an audience this morning as it’s currently quite pertinent to UKFast.
It relates in two senses - with internal and external meetings.
UKFast is expanding. In order to build every department in tandem the senior management are engaging in meetings with the Chairman, where [...]

I’m interested in people’s views on how the increasing range of tlds affects business and consumers online.
In particular there’s .travel, which attempts to create an online directory incorporating millions of travel websites. As an industry, travel and tourism is a world leader with around 12% of the global market. Online, travel is also a leader. [...]

I am involved in training some new recruits at UKFast this week and I’ve realised that the subject is so huge that you can’t assume what people will know and what they won’t.
As we’re a hosting company, the core of the training is about our services and how they fit into the grand scheme of [...]

There’s a running debate over in the creative office here today. The Research and Development team are questioning the Design team on the configuration of images for websites.
The question is: Should a designer spend time dividing the image into sections so that the webpage is loading up a number of separate files, giving the appearance [...]

Like most of my generation, I have not written a document without the aid of a keyboard for about 10 years. I remember a strange transition period at University in the mid 90’s when I would begin writing essays in freehand and then type them up in the final draft! The moment I realised I [...]

The Internet Advertising Bureau has set its sights on the B2B market with the news that only one third are currently embracing online marketing.
Apparently 63% of respondents say that the Internet will take more of their marketing budget in the future. From a privileged position as a technological B2B company, it’s quite easy to suggest [...]

A quick glance at the news this week in the online world throws up questions about the Net’s world wide status. France is voting on the threat of an iTunes monopoly, China is reconsidering its online gaming quotients and the EU is still pressurising Microsoft to open up to its rivals.
What happens when a [...]

Every morning I check my RSS feeds and you can guarantee that one name will come up more than any other - but more than that - this company will be mentioned in a positive light nine times out of ten. The company is of course Google. I guess it could have been Microsoft, but [...]

I’m excited to be starting the UKFast blog because it’s a brilliant way to open up new routes of communication with not only existing clients, but all those interested in the incredible potential of the Internet.
I’d like the UKFastblog to develop into a community that embraces and discusses the world it resides in, find it’s [...]