Posts Tagged ‘featured’

Craig Dennis

The Apple iPad – Paper is finally dead

27 January 2010 | Posted by Craig Dennis | Junior Designer | Technology
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Minutes ago Steve Jobs announced the latest product to change the world. We are of course talking about the much hyped and eagerly anticipated iTablet, iSlate, iPad. That’s right, they called it the iPad…

Will it actually be as good as the hype suggests?
Well here’s a breakdown of the features of the iPad:

The screen is [...]

Elizabeth Okes

Top ten searches of the year: Google vs Yahoo vs Bing

7 January 2010 | Posted by Elizabeth Okes | Copywriter | Search, Uncategorized
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Another year has come and gone, and I was curious to see what the top searches of the past year could reveal about 2009. Each year, Google, Yahoo and Bing examine the millions of queries that people around the world have typed into their search engines and compile a list of the most popular searches [...]

Tanya Goodin

Tamar is Agency of the Year – a 1st for a UK Search agency

27 November 2009 | Posted by Tanya Goodin | CEO | Analytics, Experience Design, Search, Social Media, Social Responsibility, Tamar, Tanya Goodin, Technology
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I am over the moon that last night we were named Agency of the Year by the Financial Services Forum at the spectacular Guildhall in London. It was a nail-biting effort by Team Tamar to get there involving a flat tyre, a motorbike rescue dash and a pair of black-tie suit trousers being rescued from [...]

Tanya Goodin

Bing + News Corp < Trust?

23 November 2009 | Posted by Tanya Goodin | CEO | Tanya Goodin
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As Bing and News Corporation plot to make up the ground they conceded when neither took the internet seriously, does today’s news that they are eyeing a pact do them any favours?
Their concerns are well founded. Murdoch has recently been telling anyone that would listen that, as a reaction to flagging newspaper sales and falling [...]

Stuart McLennan

Bing comes out of Beta! Why now and what can you expect?

13 November 2009 | Posted by Stuart McLennan | Search Executive | Search, Technology
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Yesterday (November 12th) Microsoft announced that Bing had finally come out of Beta stage in the UK.
So what has prompted Microsoft to remove the Beta tag and effectively announce their satisfaction with Bing in the UK? The answer, it seems, lies in localised search:
“We promised to remove (the Beta tag) only once our experience would [...]

Sarah Graveling

Two key principles to encourage trust online and increase conversion

3 November 2009 | Posted by Sarah Graveling | Creative Director | Experience Design
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It’s likely that the first impression many new customers will have of businesses will be gathered from their website.
Users will make an instant decision about the site the second they arrive, then spend the rest of the journey looking for key elements to challenge or confirm that reaction.
Following some key principles will ensure that expectations [...]

Chloe Temple

SEO Pro Training – Day One Summary

19 October 2009 | Posted by Chloe Temple | Search Campaign Manager | Analytics, Search, Social Media
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Here’s my summary of day 1 of SEOMoz’s “SEO Pro Training” conference – sorry if this is a little messy, I’m typing this up on a Blackberry!
The morning kicked off with ‘advanced analytics’ by Will Critchlow ,who offered a host of advice on plugins to make the most of your Google Analytics package and what [...]

Tanya Goodin

Online is bigger than TV

30 September 2009 | Posted by Tanya Goodin | CEO | Tanya Goodin, Uncategorized
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So PricewaterhouseCoopers tells us today as TV’s 50 year reign as the UK’s leading medium is over, with TV accounting for only 21.9% of all advertising spend compared to online’s 23.5%.
Well the inevitable has finally happened (and no, I’m not talking about Wigan
beating Chelsea at the weekend) – UK advertisers are now spending
more on [...]

Henry Elliss

Here come the teens… A teenager speaks

4 September 2009 | Posted by Henry Elliss | Head of Social Media | Social Media
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This week at Tamar we’ve been lucky enough to host a work experience person, in the shape of one Rachel Hosie. Rachel has been working with the Social Media team, helping us with some data gathering and doing some top-secret research. But one of the things that we spent some time looking at was the [...]

Milly Diaz

The Race to 1 Billion – Facebook UK hits 20m

19 August 2009 | Posted by Milly Diaz | Social Media
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About a month ago, TechCrunch leaked some internal Twitter papers and the expose revealed Biz Stone and co.’s dreamworld projection of 1 billion tweeters by 2013.
Love the ‘blue sky’ thinking, Biz!
But, I think the 1 billion by 2013 dream is more realistic for Mark Z. and the Facebook crew.
They’re already a quarter of the way [...]