Alex McFarlane - Web Developer

Last night Google announced that they would be distributing webisodes from Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane via their AdSense publisher network, but as a news item it didn’t strike a particular chord with me at the time. Then I read a post this morning by Eric Berlin over at Online ...

Google just announced its odd Google Media Server, a Windows app that finds photos, music, and video and makes it available to DLNA devices like the PlayStation 3, XBox 360, and most Media Center PCs. Google Media Server is a Windows application that aims to bridge the gap between Google ...

Finding a good dotcom domain name (without paying a hefty premium for it) has long been a virtually impossible task, leading otherwise obscure countries to offer up domain extensions like .tv, .to, and .fm. to allow you to register something with some semblance of being a real word. However, the ...

If there’s one thing Habbo’s online virtual world is good at, it’s making a big deal out of anything and everything. And the recent milestone of 100 million users is nothing to snuff at. In true Habbo style, they threw a big bash and gave the 100 millionth ...

I’m sure you’ve seen the Austin Powers-inspired Capital One commercials, promoting the new customization options for credit cards, allowing you add your own images. In the hopes of embracing the web’s media-sharing prowess, Capital One is allowing users to tap into their own Flickr accounts in order to ...

The 10 hours of video uploaded every minute to YouTube could be a problem for Google’s infrastructure. Video files are fat and people don’t want to wait long once they press play, which means keeping them requires a trade-off between fast access and cheap storage. A range of companies are ...

The Wolff Olins' 2012 Olympics logo is taking on a new look, tailored to the UK to celebrate the Olympic flag being handed over to London on 24 August. It will roll out from this week on, and will be applied to marketing materials which relate to the London 2012 ...

This is one great week for widgets. RockYou received a hefty round of funding yesterday, and today marks a dually beneficial partnership between white label network solutions company KickApps and widget maker and distributor Clearspring. This partnership is especially focused on the marketing potential of joining forces, as ...

We first mentioned a plan devised by television network operators BBC, ITV, and Channel 4 to form a joint Web-based video venture, code-named “Kangaroo,” last November. Which seemed rather intriguing at the time. It would allow users to do all manner of things with different pieces of content, including rent ...

Orange is kicking off one of its most innovative online marketing campaigns to date.

Experiment using the new Rentals service on UK iTunes. The direct links can be used on the movie website / widget / social media space to direct users directly to the rentals. This could be added as an extra stage after the promotion of the DVD release.

A lot of hay has been made from the notion that the Web is the new platform, and that at some point we’ll just be booting up our computers to a web interface, and be done with it. The problem with that, or at least one of the problems with ...

Microsoft Live Messenger is the latest to integrate Facebook chat, meaning you can talk it up with your Facebook friends directly from Microsoft’s instant messaging client, according to a report on allfacebook. This integration is a passive and useful way in which Microsoft can utilize the social network into ...

Adobe is jumping head first into web-based software this evening, announcing the launch of several new services at Acrobat.com. The launch essentially moves Adobe’s traditional strengths of document creation and management software (Acrobat / Adobe Reader) into an online environment, allowing users to create, manage, and share Adobe documents ...