In a radio interview last week, Lawrence Jones was asked to explain what an Internet Service Provider does. Following Lawrence’s answer, Phil Wood, the host said – “so you basically run the Internet” and Lawrence’s response was “I guess so, personally we just have a small chunk of it.” And in one sense this is [...]

I recently moved home and found myself without a toaster, without an ironing board, without a bookcase and – most irritatingly of all – without a net connection. How on earth would I survive? Reasonably easily, as it turned out. In fact for a while I got used to being netless, just like the protagonist [...]

Last night’s Optimising Your Online Presence seminar brought some of Manchester’s top businesses together at Cube and sent them away with fuel for success. Clare Johnson of Digital Marketing specialists Adoofa, spoke first and gave marketers a great overview of SEO and PPC with emphasis on tried and tested techniques and avoidance of the ‘Dark [...]

Tomorrow night in Manchester City centre, UKFast’s MD Lawrence Jones is joining with Yahoo, Hitwise and Internet Marketing agency Adoofa to give tips to city businesses on boosting their online presence. It’s going to be a hugely informative evening and having heard snippets of Lawrence’s talk, a lot of the information is very specific and [...]

There is no more eclectic a community than the world wide web and it is a hot bed of innovation and experimentation. But in order to make money it’s a true test in individualism. This weekend I heard the news that Fold.com was ironically folding. The Ajax based homepage that began in beta just 3 [...]

It’s Friday, it’s sunny, and in between bouts of selectitis I’m writing the UKFast blog. What could be better? Now I realise that most of the time here, I’m either attacking or generally moaning about all sorts of technical things. Not today! Today I shall speak of some of the wonderfulness of modern computers. Good [...]

Following on from yesterday’s post about ‘ransomware’, I’ve noticed that the news sites are now featuring the same story the MEN broke yesterday. However, before I found it through the search engines my RSS feeds delivered the story on BBC News, The Register and The Times Online. So as RSS becomes more widespread, what does [...]