Steve Jobs: A billion dollar hippy
Who managed to catch the Steve Jobs documentary last night? For those of you who missed out or were caught unaware like some in our office here is the link to view. What are your thoughts?
Category: Web
Update your custom Facebook page for a special early rate!
Don’t leave your custom business page looking bare! Take advantage of Facebook’s new “timeline” layout for business pages and have your current designed page transformed into the new dimensions and show off your brand with a stunning cover photo. Confirm before March 31st and obtain the discounted rate of $360+GST (Regular price $580+GST) you can get your […]
Why will your Facebook Page shrink on March 30?
Actually, it won’t. But it will seem that way. Facebook is actually about to give us more visual real estate than ever before to promote our business and services. Great news. It means we have to slightly modify corporate Facebook pages to take advantage of the new layout. It looks a lot like the new […]
Online TV already exists. Will it thrash Traditional TV?
What if you could watch your favourite American TV series at the moment it broadcasts in the U.S. Or watch your favourite tennis player smashing through to the finals at Wimbledon Open. Imagine if you could watch anything, at anytime, in your home, on your couch, on your big high definition plasma screen? Many TVs […]
SWiM’s YouTube Channel gets over 4000 views.
A couple of months ago SWiM recorded a few tutorial videos, to assist people in setting up their email accounts on a variety of email clients. Since then we have currently over four and a half thousand views on our YouTube channel. YouTube Analytics shows that in the last 30 days we have accumulated 573 […]
The Evolution of Search in 6 minutes
Ever wondered how Google came about in becoming the world’s best search engine? The team from Google have shared with us a short video, which covers the history and the evolution of search. The video highlights some very important milestones, as well as what will be coming next.
Facebook Drives Traffic To Websites
A study has proved that Facebook is one of the top 3 referral sources to the world’s most popular news websites. Google is still the leading traffic source, but there is no doubt Facebook is crawling up. This study shows the impact of sharing information through social networks such as Facebook. Facebook users are believed […]
The Power of Inbound Links
Does anybody actually read chat rooms? The answer is a resounding “yes”. Recently, our client Hooker Cockram received a spike in their Google Analytics Report. The report shows that they have accumulated almost 18,000 visitors in one day. Where did they come from? All of the visitors who visited the Hooker Cockram website that day […]
When is a domain registration not a domain registration?
Answer: When it’s a scam. Seen one of these? That’s what a domain scam looks like. Huh? You see, we own swimcommunications.com.au. Have a look – it’s a sample e-Commerce store. The above notice is imitating a renewal for that domain. But it’s actually selling me a new .com version and sweetening an inflated price […]
Handy Online Tools
SWiM have come across some handy online tools, and we’d like to share them! We often have times when our clients need to send us files that are too big for an email attachment. Other times, our clients struggle to find out which browser version they are using. It is all made easy now (for […]
Why Can’t I Find The Phone Books?
The answer may be that you canceled them. In fact, Sensis is offering us the opportunity to do exactly that. What ever the reason: saving trees, not wanting to store them, because you use the web or because now that you have a flat screen monitor you don’t need phone books to sit the old […]
Google Gets Serious About Duplicate Content
We often advise our clients to provide quality, relevant and in depth content about their products or services. We also stress the importance of not having duplicate content, or copying content from competitor’s website. SWiM acknowledges the fact that Google doesn’t like content being copied over and over. Google likes original and relevant content because […]
Up to $10K web grant for Not For Profit Organisations
The auDA Foundation manages the .au space for online web, and SWiM is a member. AuDA annually distributes grants of up to $10,000 to not for profit organisations for online projects that meet it’s criteria. In 2009 SWiM assisted one of it’s clients to obtain a grant. You can view the success here: www.regional.fambiz.org.au The […]
Internet Explorer 9 puts spotlight on website features
Microsoft today released a lean, muscular new Internet Explorer crafted to spotlight slick websites and beat back competition from Firefox and Google in the web browser arena. “The browser is the stage and the websites are the stars of the show,” corporate vice president of Internet Explorer Dean Hachamovitch told AFP. “Microsoft has over a […]
Google Instant search feeds our real-time addiction
Google this week released its Instant Search feature, which displays live search results as soon as you begin typing. By providing results before a query is complete and removing the need to hit the “enter” key, Google claims users will save two to five seconds per search. Are we too impatient to wait a matter […]