Planning world domination with Google

Like pretty much everybody else on the planet, I use Google. In fact I'll be posting this very article on Google's Blogger and I'll no doubt soon see how many people have visited it by logging on to my Google Analytics account. Google truly is a wonderful company and I always enjoy beta testing their latest bits of kit and marvelling at the genius behind it.

However, a few weeks ago while I was travelling up to the scum hole that is London on my way to a concert, I was playing around with Google Latitude when a scary thought struck me: Google knew exactly where I was at that moment. That got me thinking. Google know what things I browse for on the web, they know who I email thanks to Gmail, they know who my friends are thanks to Friend Connect, they know what videos I watch thanks to Youtube, they know my credit card details thanks to Checkout, they know the contents of some of my work thanks to Notebook and Docs. Things like Google Reader, Google Groups, Blogger, Picassa and iGoogle mean that they can also get a fair read on my general lifestyle. Streetmap even gives them the chance to look into my house.

Not that I’m a paranoid person or anything but when Google do eventually take over the world, I want to be the first to own up and say I will happily take on the role of evil henchman – I think I'd be good at that job!

The even scarier thought is that Google was founded by two students! Not that I want to try and get one over on them but Datapartners is run by a rock star and a racing driver – that’s much more charismatic!

Sack the postman; the internet never goes on strike

Is it just me or does the whole world like going on strike? The miners have done it, train drivers have done it and now the postal service seems to want to get in on the action too.

Given that Royal Mail is about as popular as Ashley Cole at a Girls Aloud appreciation meeting, I never quite understood what they thought they would accomplish by trying to gain sympathy from the public by openly complaining about their pay – especially in the middle of a recession. Come to think of it I can’t even remember the last time I posted a letter… or even used a stamp. This startling revelation brings me neatly onto plugging our Mailermatic app.

Email is the way to go. It's quick, easy and more reliable than snail mail – oh and it costs less too! Sending regular newsletters and general updates to your customers is a great way of keeping in touch with them and potentially opening doors for more future business together. Mailermatic allows you to send nice, clean personal newsletters that fulfil all these accessibility regulations. Now I don't want to get all technical with you because I'm starting to put myself to sleep so I'll just leave you with a link to the product information page (yes, click the link!) and let you see for yourself.

Please don’t write to me to ask for more information. Just email me!

EDDitor

www.datapartners.co.uk

Out on a shopping trip with a web developer

OK I'm a bloke so needless to say I hate shopping. I get a headache every time I enter the vicinity of the front door and my brain completely shuts down. I'm pretty sure it's the same affliction women get when they attempt to reverse in a car. So it's with ironic justice that the first blog I write for Datapartners is to plug our… yes you guessed it… shop!

It has to be said that the Webshop is our most popular app and is certainly the one I’m most proud of. Over the last 6 years there have been a lot of enhancements to it. So many in fact that now when people phone up to ask if it is possible to do this, that or the other my response is always "Yes but I can't remember where to find it!"

So here is the hard sell bit so concentrate! If you want your own online shop to sell your stuff from as little as £10 per month, visit our Webshop information page. Go on, you know you want to!

Who said I couldn't be a salesman?!

EDDitor

www.datapartners.co.uk