Dave Riley

It’s a clock, it’s advertising, it’s dancing!

uniqlock Here is what I think is one of the most innovative pieces of advertising I've seen for a while, it's a website for a Japanese clothes store but they have made it a bit more compelling than a normal clothes website. It starts off as a clock showing the local Tokyo time with some very addictive music in the background. After 5 seconds we see our first dance routine, the routines are flash video and are very high quality full screen. The trick is that the video buffers...

Twitter is great!

Ok, so I have this problem, I need to find out which is the best domain registration service. Why not try twitter I thought so I twittered the question. To my amazement in just a few short minutes dozens of replies :-) Twitter is really great, maybe not in the way people think it is. Just out of interest most people seemed to recommend godaddy.com as the best domain registration...

I’ve tried to add some ads to my blog but it just seems to break the page in IE7

I've tried to add some ads to my blog but it just seems to break the page in IE7. I'm looking into it and will post what I discover...

New BBC News website sucks! 7 things I hate about bbc news.

I'm sorry but this is what I believe. I have had a lot of problems with the BBC news site in the past: 1. most read, most email varies depending on what page you're on! How is that possible? 2.Video/Audio/text content is only available in 1 form, you need to support at least text, but many stories are video only. Why? At least have a subtitles option. 3. "Scientists say" stories! Tea is good for you, tea is bad for you... etc. etc. no evidence, rarely do they even bother to name the...