16 November 2006

Mario and Luigi vs. Vice city

Highly entertaining. Its the Mario bros as you have never seen them before !

Rainbow - the tv programme was dodgy

Remember the Childrens TV programme - Rainbow.

Well see this video clip. Tell me it is not dodgy !


13 November 2006

Lord Mayors Parade, London

On Saturday the 11th November we ended up witnessing the Lord Mayors Parade in London.

It was a huge procession of floats representing the City of London and guests. Here are just a few photographs.


DeLorean from the Back to the future


One of the many marching bands



Some more old cars


What's new on Gmail?

I love Gmail and I hate it at the same time! Why am I confused?

I have been using Gmail from almost day one. I was lucky enough as a long term adwords advertiser to get an account when I didnt even know google was going to start a mail service. I have long since stopped using Yahoo and Hotmail on a daily basis.

Gmail is great, the conversation management. The labels. Contact Management. The formatting. The spell check. My Alerts. All the settings. How it shows pictures inline.
Then there is GoogleTalk, in the browser and as a stand alone programme. And how they work together with Gmail.

Then they launch a few nice things this week
  • Reply on top of the message
  • New message notifications appear even if you are editing!
  • Forward all feature for your mail - all of the conversation
  • Chat even when your friends are offline
  • Gmail on your mobile phone
They are all brilliant. Love it and use it continuously.

I also love the way that I also manage, well this blog, calendar, docs, my groups, my webmaster tools, analytics, my social stuff (co-op), my personalised hp, my adwords accounts and making me some money. See my adverts :-) on the right hand side. It goes on and on. Oh and not to forget my Reader (have ditched bloglines). Its not related - but google earth and their maps are brilliant.

This is a little scary. They do everything. What is left to develop? And where are the competiton?

As a digi marketeer I love and hate Google.

From my work point of view we are dependant on Google for Natural Search traffic. As a consumer they are very very good. But I do worry about the lack of competition.

We do well out of Google in traffic and adwords. But we are ever so dependant on just one company. What happens when they change the way they do business? Well it happens occassionally and we ALL have to jump to change the way we do things.

So I am confused - love them and hate them.

I pay more attention to a load of techies in America than I do politicians ! Is this right.

Not sure I mind - while I have such great toys to play with :-)