Qube Media.tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-13451862008-08-19T15:17:13+01:00Thoughts from our web communications teamTypePadThe birth of the internettag:typepad.com,2003:post-543984922008-08-19T15:17:13+01:002008-08-19T15:20:08+01:00Got a few minutes to spare? Check out America's National Science Foundation's nifty site, documenting the birth of the internet. It goes from the first time two computers communicated cross-country in 1962, through the arrival of the personal computer in...Max St Johnhttp://qube.typepad.com/blog/2008/08/the-birth-of-th.htmlBrands need to come clean onlinetag:typepad.com,2003:post-535492762008-07-31T15:44:47+01:002008-07-31T17:33:27+01:00Brands, advertisers and marketers can no longer go into blogs or online forums and big up their products or services without being open and honest about who they are. We've had a few clients ask us how the recent legislation...Nigel Cooperhttp://qube.typepad.com/blog/2008/07/you-cant-lie-on.htmlNobody's looking at your banner adstag:typepad.com,2003:post-535472822008-07-31T15:00:31+01:002008-07-31T15:24:11+01:00'Internet users tend to avoid fixing their eyes on anything that looks like advertising', New Scientist reported last week – and the phenomenon has been dubbed "banner blindness" by Nidhi Mathur of Hewlett Packard's research lab in Bangalore, India. Obviously,...Nigel Cooperhttp://qube.typepad.com/blog/2008/07/nobodys-looking.htmlFacebook Connect makes the web more socialtag:typepad.com,2003:post-534938242008-07-30T14:20:49+01:002008-07-31T11:28:46+01:00This week Facebook have released Facebook Connect, the newest version of the Facebook platform which, for the first time, allows users to connect almost any aspect of facebook to their own website. Facebook Connect will allow any third party website...Graeme Bensteadhttp://qube.typepad.com/blog/2008/07/facebook-connec.htmlWeb Reaches 1 Trillion Unique Sitestag:typepad.com,2003:post-534918362008-07-14T13:29:00+01:002008-07-31T11:29:40+01:00According to Google's findings the web now consists of over 1 Trillion ( 1,000,000,000,000 ) unique sites. That works out at roughly 165 websites for everyone in the worlds population.. To put the webs growth into prospective 10 years ago,...Graeme Bensteadhttp://qube.typepad.com/blog/2008/07/web-reaches-1-t.htmlSometimes it's good to be pedantictag:typepad.com,2003:post-524955842008-07-10T14:49:33+01:002008-07-10T15:10:57+01:00Many of us here at Qube have our roots in copywriting and web content, so we appreciate a well structured, properly punctuated sentence, with accurate grammar. Attention to detail shows you have high standards and are professional. Recently we've run...Emma Hamiltonhttp://qube.typepad.com/blog/2008/07/sometimes-its-g.htmlClient win: drink drive awareness campaigntag:typepad.com,2003:post-520704802008-06-30T15:49:17+01:002008-06-30T15:50:13+01:00We're over the moon at Qube that we've been chosen to develop the online marketing side of West Sussex County Council's year long drive safety campaign. Alongside Zero Fifty One, who are providing the offline advertising and creative, Qube will...Nigel Cooperhttp://qube.typepad.com/blog/2008/06/client-win-drin.htmlGraeme, the newest Qubite on the blocktag:typepad.com,2003:post-520701982008-06-30T15:41:59+01:002008-06-30T15:42:42+01:00A belated welcome to Graeme Benstead, who joined Qube this month in the role of online marketing executive. Graeme was formerly one of the director's of Heavenly Media, with an excellent track record in search marketing and social media. He...Nigel Cooperhttp://qube.typepad.com/blog/2008/06/graeme-the-newe.htmlSocial Media and the US electionstag:typepad.com,2003:post-519386302008-06-27T11:42:20+01:002008-06-30T12:15:28+01:00The online world was a very different place back in 2004 when the last US election was underway. The word blogging was only recently starting to slip into society's vocabulary, YouTube had yet to delight us with its thousands of...Graeme Bensteadhttp://qube.typepad.com/blog/2008/06/social-media-an.htmlAd spend cutbacks – what's next?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-519093182008-06-26T18:30:33+01:002008-06-27T11:47:35+01:00The industry press is full of speculation and scare-stories on a predicted downturn in online ad spend this year. Even given it comes to pass (and some are saying exactly the opposite) – should the wider world of online marketing...Max St Johnhttp://qube.typepad.com/blog/2008/06/ad-spend-cutbac.html