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Facebook exceeds 500,000,000 users

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:15:00 +0100

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.

How to make a successful website

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:39:00 +0100

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!

Inovavision Testimonial

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:54:00 +0100

'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

Brokers4Sale.com Testimonial

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:51:00 +0100

'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

Zagabria Medical Testimonial

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:44:00 +0100

We’re very happy with our website’s functionality & service level provided by TWS!
Above all we’re appreciative of the readiness & immediacy of action as & when queries arise. We thank all of the staff at TWS! Zagabria Medical ltd

Why, how, what

Wed, 19 May 2010 23:14:00 +0100

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: [More]

The importance of social media

Sat, 08 May 2010 17:43:00 +0100

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: [More]

Social Media and Marketing (wannabe) Guru

Sat, 08 May 2010 15:28:00 +0100

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: [More]

Weak ciphers and SSL protocols disabled

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:24:00 +0100

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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TalkWebSolutions creates website for Heyworth Primary School

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:43:00 +0100

TalkWebSolutions has created Heyworth Primary School's website in conjunction with Prism Group. This future-proof website uses the Wordpress Blog Tool and Publishing Platform in innovative new ways. TalkWebSolutions is exceptionally adaptable, we are able to work with all new and emerging technologies, which will benefit your business. Talk to us today about a free website evaluation.

Website for the BBC on Project Canvas is finished

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:36:00 +0100

TalkWebSolutions have finished their website for the BBC. This site can be found at www.projectcanvas.info.

We developed our CMS Platform so that it would disseminate their content to the social web-sphere with little effort from the administration team. The site uses our CMS system so that the BBC editors can quickly and easily update content on the site. What is unique is that with one click the information they add can get pushed out to many social media websites such as Twitter, Delicious, Linkedin and Facebook. We also made an aggregated reader via Goggle reader which pulls in content from several sites, if the news from these feeds in relevant all the BBC team have to do is promote the store and it's pushed onto the website. The removes the requirement to scour several websites find the news as well as the need to re purpose the content.

We also created a secure access portal for their partners to share content online as well as managing the hosting of this site.

ArtReview comments on working with TalkWebSolutions

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:56:00 +0100

TalkWebSolutions has been working with ArtReview magazine for a few years now and Daniel from ArtReview comments on the way that we work:

'TalkWebSolutions act as our outsourced web development team and offer us the combination of technical expertise and flexibility that we need. As a rapidly growing business in fast changing business environment we rely on suppliers that can change and adapt to our needs quickly with the minimum of fuss - TalkWebSolutions achieve this for us.'

To find out what TalkWebSolutions can do for you please contact us!

The BBC choose TalkWebSolutions for their latest website on Project Canvas

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:10:00 +0100

The BBC have commissioned TalkWebSolutions to create an information website for their new project, known as Project Canvas

Project Canvas is a proposed partnership between the BBC, ITV, C4, Five, BT and Talk Talk to build an open internet-connected TV platform, subject to BBC Trust approval.

The partners intend to form a venture to promote the platform to consumers and the content, service and developer community.

Like the UK's current free-to-air brands Freeview and Freesat - a consumer brand (not canvas) will be created, and licensed to device manufacturers, and internet service providers owners who meet the specifications.

This site will be a CMS platform that would disseminate content to the social web-sphere with little effort from the admin team.

TalkWebSolutions creates a Christmas/Holiday e-card - you can do the same for your customers

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:05:00 +0100

TalkWebSolutions has created a brilliant, customised e-card and animation for their customers featuring the office mascot - a rescued greyhound called Tenzin.

Get in touch with us today for your own customised e-card featuring characters and words of your choice or of our suggestion.

Email us today on: xmas@talkwebsolutions.co.uk

TalkWebSolutions scores 4 out of 5 a Green IT maturity test

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:49:00 +0100

TalkWebSolutions has taken a green IT maturity test through Accenture Green Maturity Assessment and scored four out of five.

Through this we were informed that our organization has progressed to a mature Green IT level. This is because most, if not all, projects include assessments around environmental impact and senior staff are incentivized to improve the efficiency of the organization.

There is still more that we can do however to reach five out of five. This includes automating monitoring and reporting, collecting performance data from systems and using advanced analytics to understand where additional performance can be achieved.

TalkWebSolutions is committed to achieving this and creating a greener world for all of us.