David Whitehouse Archive

Google Announces Google Wallet, PayPal Sues

Google announced yesterday their new mobile payments offering, Google Wallet. Basically it is a mobile phone payments system for Android mobiles, which has been launched in conjunction with Citi, MasterCard, FirstData and Sprint. The advantages for the end user are obvious – carry less cash, simply swipe your phone and save time. For businesses, they [...]

EU Realises Its Stupidity And Defers Cookie Law For 1 Year

This has been a real bug bear of mine for some time now, today the EU cookie law was meant to come into force – and low and behold, nothing. The only site I have seen asking explicit permission for storing cookies prior to placing a cookie is – well, nobody. The ICO website actually [...]

Google Squeezes Comparison Sites with Google Advisor

Google have placed all of their comparison services under one name, Google Advisor. This appears to the next in a series of moves by Google to squeeze comparison sites such as Money Super Market and Compare The Market (maybe they hate their adverts?). We blogged about how Google acquired Beat That Quote, and there was [...]

Google Improves Its Market Research Tools

Google is making a conscious effort to improve its market research tools, this is great news. One such tool is the Google AdWords Keyword Tool – they’ve made improvements to make it more accurate at estimating traffic you’ll get if you add it to an AdWords campaign. Not only have they improved the traffic estimates [...]

Google’s Page Speed Online gets an API

It’s just been announced that Google’s Page Speed Online, the page speed testing tool that makes recommendations to speed up your website, has been given an API. Already there is a WordPress plugin using it, the W3 Total Cache WordPress plugin. Check out the getting started guide, which should be enough for all you developers [...]

EU Cookie Law – Does *anyone* know how it is going to work?

The new European Cookie Law comes into effect towards the end of this month, I’ve read it is the 25th May (26th May according to the BBC) and I still don’t know anyone who: A) Is prepared for the change B) Knows how they will technically deal with the problem. ICO guidance is far from [...]

New Google Analytics Site Speed Fails To Impress

I was quite excited the other day when James pointed out about the new site speed functionality in the new Google Analytics. I was thinking how useful it would be to see load times for browsers & operating systems – even more importantly loading times for mobile phones, often the connection isn’t as fast which [...]

New Google Analytics Look

We finally got access to the new Google Analytics today, so I’ve been having a play around. The biggest change is the way it looks, mainly the menu system, also some reports seem to have disappeared – but I guess they may get re-added at sometime in the future. The first thing you notice is [...]

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