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Grabbing your visitor’s attention with video

When a visitor first views your website it is important that they can quickly grasp what your site has to offer as well as identify where to go next.

Following a recent visit to TFM&A (Technology for Marketing and Advertising), an annual marketing event which focuses on Technology, it was evident from the amount of video [...]

February 25, 2010 • Posted in: Blog • Posted by: Gavin Beddow • Comments

Riding the Google Wave

With the Beta invites now arriving we’ve been testing out Google’s new service ‘Google Wave’.
Google’s official description of Google Wave is that it is an online, real-time communication and collaboration environment.  If you think of a combination between Instant Messaging (e.g. MSN Messenger) and Email, then that’s a pretty summary.
So what does it do?
The primary [...]

November 5, 2009 • Tags: , , • Posted in: Blog • Posted by: Gavin Beddow • Comments

Google OS – Online or Offline?

Nine months after the release of their web browser Google Chrome, Google have now announced they are entering the Operating System world with Google Chrome OS. A lot of people have been expecting or hoping for this for quite a while and as you have probably seen already, the hype-machine is already well and truly [...]

July 8, 2009 • Posted in: Blog, Web Development • Posted by: Gavin Beddow • Comments

Quba + Basecamp = Great Projects

2 years ago we signed up for Basecamp, an online project collaboration tool to help our teams deliver projects more effectively.  Our key requirement was that we wanted a solution that would enable us to share project information more effectively and transparently amongst the project teams.
Since our first few tests of working out how we [...]

July 3, 2009 • Posted in: Blog, inQubator news • Posted by: Gavin Beddow • Comments

Productivity Apps That Make Things Much Easier

We’re always on the lookout for new and useful applications that increase productivity and allow us to offer a better service to our customers.  The following is a shortlist of some of the popular ones currently being used at Quba.  Best of all, they can all be used for free!

Launchy – http://www.launchy.net/
Launchy is a great [...]

April 17, 2009 • Tags:  • Posted in: Blog, inQubator news • Posted by: Gavin Beddow • Comments