June 2009
18 posts
Alex Smith Architect
I’m heading over to the RCA tonight for my mate Alex’s end of year show. He’s just graduated from the final year of his Master’s in Architecture from the RCA, with honours, and this will be one of his last chances for a while to stick all his crazy ideas up on a wall for all too see.
It’s always a well organised event, in fact all of the RCA shows are, and all...
What Questions do People Ask Google?
Nick who works at eConversions came across this little Google easter egg. If you punch in the begining to a question, Google, using it’s suggest feature, will try and preempt you based upon the questions it is most commly asked. Some pf them are hilarious, here’s a few:
“Is Lady Gaga a man?”
“Is Jade Goody Dead?”
“Is Jade Goody Dead yet?”
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Rip Off Merchants
I knew there was copy cats in the web, first there was Friendster, then there was Facebook (or something like that). VoucherCodes.co.uk was certainly not the first voucher codes site, just in the same Amazon was not the first place you could buy books online, but in the words of Steve Bezos, “if you’re not the first, make sure you’re the best,” and by golly we’ve...
The Value of Twitter is in the Shared Links
I wasn’t at the 140 Character Conference so I’m going to have to take TechCrunch’s summary of Fred Wilson speach as gospel. Apparently what Fred sed that Twitters value is in the shared links, the recommendations between Twitters that in some instances have a commerical value attached to them, a book, a flight, a hotel for instance. Twitter needs to work out how it can...
Introducing Discounts.co.uk
Ok, not quite, we’re not ready to take the wraps of Discounts.co.uk yet - in fact if you visit the site now all you’re going to see is a holding page with a link to our blog with its lovely default template - but rest assured it’s coming.
The publishing team at eConversions have been busy prepping our next money-saving project since early May now, and we hope to have the thing...
+46 Store →
Sweedish purveyors of luxury wares. Really well designed online store and good selection of brands too.
VoucherCodes.co.uk wins at the A4U Awards
Last night, VoucherCodes.co.uk the latest project to be incubated by the brilliant boys and girls of the eConversions publishing team, won “Best Retail Publisher” at the A4U Awards. We beat off competition from VAC Media and mydeco and couldn’t be more proud of ourselves.
It rounds of a crazy nine months that has seen us quickly rise to the number two spot in the voucher codes...
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you...”
– Mahatma Ghandi on peaceful protest, but could just as easily be a quote from the Cluetrain Manifesto.