Last night Facebook announced that it had over 500 000 000 users.

Some facts that have come out of this are that: 

8% of the entire world are on Facebook Metro
Facebook was valued at $11.5 billion The Telegraph
More than 150 million log in through their phone The Guardian

While Facebook is one of a kind, hard to surpass, if you need a social network site for your project or market then please get in touch.  TalkWeb has an excellent record for producing fun, exciting social applications customised for your market.

 

 

It's all well and good spending money on a beautiful website, but will it make your company more successful?  Here at Talkweb we pride ourselves on creating concise, effective, fun applications that make the users experience pleasurable.

But how do we do this?

There are many things to consider when creating a website or web application:

Is your site Search Engine Optimised (SEO'd)?
When creating a website, you need to be aware of 'keywords' and phrases that are relevent to your business sector.  What are people going to be searching for when they are looking for products and services that you provide?  If you do not have a website that can be easily 'spidered' then it will simply drift in the internet ether, never being seen as relevent or important enough to be shown on search engine results pages, with the consequence that you will never pick up passing trade.

Do you have a good Content Management System (CMS)?
Are you spending hours updating each of your web pages, wasting time on the administration when you could be concentrating on sales and marketing?  An effective CMS system will save you valuable time and lead to a more consistent message in your site as well as enabling fantastic features that you may not have been able to create yourself.

Is your website design engaging?
It is always worth bringing on an impartial person to have a browse through your website and give you criticism and praise about what works and what doesn't for the user experience.  If your website is falling short for someone you have asked to look through, then think about the customer who has the choice of hundreds of companies across the web.  Will they choose your site?  Contact us for a free website evaluation and find out!

Check out your website analytics.
Are you aware of your website's analytics?  Have a look and see which pages are holding people's attention, and then create more like them!  Where are your customers coming from and on which pages are they leaving you and wandering off into the internet ether?  All this is essential information to tailor your website for your customers.

These are just a few things that we at Talkweb take into consideration when we look at a new project.  Now that you know give us a call and find out what we have done and how we can work our magic on your website!

 

'I have worked with Talkweb for some years now. They are a great development house and I highly recommend them. They have ability to think out of the box, take ideas to completion and deliver effective solutions. In terms of time, quality and price they have always exceeded my expectations. Efficient, effective and a delight to work with – nothing seems too much of a problem for them.' James Wilson, Inovavision

'We found Nick and his team a great help when it came to visualizing how we wanted to take the business forward. Previous web design companies had ‘pigeon holed ‘ us into something they had previously done with other clients so Nicks blank canvas approach was extremely refreshing. This has resulted in a measurable increase in enquiries through our website and good feedback from our clients.' Gary Medcraff, Brokers4Sale.com

When developing a online application we really believe it's imperative that we understand 'why' our clients have or may want to do business with us. If we don't understand this we can't really believe in the online application we're developing. We often get told 'how' they want the application to work and 'what' they want it to do but we really need to believe 'why' they want to do it. I can't sum it up better than Simon Sinek in the following video:

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It goes without saying these days that social media is an important factor in any business, but how much is not really know by all. As with many statements they just need to be followed up with stats and here they are:

* More than half of the world's population is under 30.
* Facebook tops Google for weekly U.S. Internet traffic.
* Ashton Kutcher and Britney Spears have more Twitter followers than the populations of Sweden, Israel, * Switzerland, Ireland, Norway and Panama.
* 50% of mobile Internet traffic in the UK is on Facebook.
* During the 4+ minutes it takes to watch the video, more than 100 hours' worth of video will be uploaded to YouTube.
* Amazon sold more electronic books for the Kindle than physical books on Christmas.
* If you were paid $1 for each posted Wikipedia article, you'd make $1,712.32 per hour.
* Over 50% of the world's population is under 30 years old
* Social media has overtaken pornography as the #1 web activity
* 1 out of 8 married couples met via social media
* 80% of companies use social media for recruitment

These stats are taken form socialnomics which are nicely shown in the following video:

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We're delighted to be taking part in yet another internship program run by the fantastic chaps over at Wired Sussex.

Last year we took on Sita as a designer and she was so great that we decided to take her on full time. This year we're looking for Social Media and Markering personal.

Take a look at the job description here:

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Here at TalkWeb we take security very seriously with our hosted websites and in an effort to increase the levels of security we completed a security update on all our servers last night between 3am and 4am. The updated disabled SSLV2 (SSL Version 2), and Weak Ciphers with 40 and 56 bit keys on the server which are setup by default; we now only have strong cryptography and security protocols.

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