Blogs by Barrie Bowles

This week, I had the pleasure of attending the 5th IAB Engage conference, billed as ‘Get Fit Be Happy’. Whilst this message of health and fitness is really intended for brands, customer engagement and the bottom line – it was most notably felt by myself when running up the theatre aisle stairs…
Contrary to the dayglow-spandex [...]

It seems after a painfully long time, Google is finally applying their AdWords system to YouTube, allowing UK advertisers to serve keyword targeted video content to the masses. Google isn’t overcomplicating things, by applying their AdWords platform – allowing price to be based on performance.
With Online spend overtaking TV spend last month, this seems like [...]

I’m a huge F1 racing fan. Most people find this odd, those cars seem to just follow each other round in a noisy procession for an hour and a half, occasionally stopping for a pit stop that is even quicker than a quick fit fitter. Sometimes they knock each other off the black stuff, which [...]

I don’t like shopping at the best of times. People, parking, and getting my moth ridden wallet out. But when I am forced to go into an actual shop, I always get the feeling I have found what I want but could get a better deal online. So I toddle out of the shop and [...]

Is Twitter paving the way for an update to the rest of the site’s presentation with a change in their login page? I bet most regular users dont see the login page, as its bookmarked or logs in automatically (or remains logged in if your machine never seems to get a rest, like mine).
The new [...]

With just over a week to go until the project, things are really starting to shape up at Oak Lodge. Last weekend, Tony and his team from designbuilding got the foundations underway for our mini amphitheatre. It required a mini digger and the efforts of six of Tony’s workforce – all working on donated time [...]

Its less than 3 weeks to the big project at Oak Lodge school, so here at Tamar Lifeline Charity, we thought it a good time to update on how preparations are going in the UK.

TLC are building a relationship with Oak Lodge school, Balham.

This years project is all about mini projects. There are 7 of [...]

This week saw the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) reject a complaint from Privacy International  over the right to show images of people accidently caught on camera by Google Street view, so the search giants latest toy is no longer under threat. This is great news for those who want to find their house [...]

Okay, so whilst it might not be an algorithm update or an addition of streetview, we at Tamar like to give the nod to small Google changes as well as the sizable ones. And I would like to acknowledge yesterdays addition of a colour filter to Google image search.
This makes it far easier to [...]

Once again, here I am on the morning after a the night before – and another highly successful charity
event – this time the TLC 5-s-side football tournament held at Rocks Lane sports facility, Turnham Green.
Eight teams of five fought it out in a group stage and knock out style competition (with some taking the [...]