Webism Today

Haribo, owner of the sweet brand Maoam, find themselves in an interesting PR situation. Simon Simpkins from Pontefract became so annoyed at the ‘lurid’ illustrations on the Maoam wrappers that he wrote to the Daily Mail. The story has been run by the papers and features as “Outrage over sexy Haribo sweet wrappers” on the [...]

Back in July the newly launched Bing announced a competition. They wanted people have to have a go a putting together a jingle. The prize wasn’t great but it was good enough for many people – an $500 American Express gift cheque. There’s now a winner and rather cleverly from Bing’s marketing team it’s a [...]

Habitat, the thinking man’s Ikea, was at the receiving end of a minor twitter backlash this week. They created a Twitter account a few weeks ago and began Tweeting their offers. After a few tweets, for some misguided reason they thought that putting popular trending hashtags at the beginning of their tweet would be a [...]

  It appears as if today is not going to be a slow news day. Already it’s been reported that The Guardian has taken its newspaper out of print and onto Twitter, dangerous hummingbirds have been spotted in rural Gloucestershire (by Dr Julius Doctor) and Warner Bros have acquired the Pirate Bay. It’s April 1st [...]

Ryanair decided to take a innovative approach to online PR this week when blogger Jason Roe discovered a glitch in their booking system. The glitch, caused the booking page to show 0.00 for a flight, instead of the real price. Roe, being a web developer, thought this was a blog worthy piece, and reported it [...]

Google has revealed that the problem which caused every site on the internet to be labelled as unsafe was down to human error. For around 40 minutes (Google’s calculations) on Saturday afternoon (GMT), or for more than 90 minutes (various users’ calculations), every search result offered by Google came up with a warning that “This [...]

For a long time now Google has been the number one search engine in the US, but 2008 saw it spending a whole year covering around 65% percent of the market. Last month, however, Google jumped from 65.9% up to 72.1% according to a recent report by Hitwise. The jump could be Google clearing the [...]

Experts are warning people away from Internet Explorer – not just because other browsers are better, but because of a huge security flaw that exposes users to the risk of unapproved access and stolen passwords. Microsoft has revealed that it has detected attacks against IE 7.0, but has said that the underlying vulnerability is present [...]

A Russian entrepreneur has trademarked the popular emoticon making other entrepreneurs that didn’t think of it first Oleg Teterin, president of Russian mobile ad firm Superfone claimed that he was not planning on chasing down individual users of the emoticon: “I want to highlight that this is only directed at corporations, companies that are trying [...]

Having catalogued thousands of books and now several archives of newspapers, Google has begun rolling out the digitalisation of old print magazines. As of yet Google has not created a separate section for magazines and searches are currently performed through the Google book search. As this is still a new feature, Google has only scanned [...]