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After the long awaited release of Take That’s new tour tickets surely Ticketmaster would ensure their servers wouldn’t fall down and are prepared for the levels of traffic which comes with a major band selling tickets? Apparently not! The site has been struggling all morning and now seems to have succumbed to the sheer numbers […]

On Sunday I went with a couple of friends on our annual day out to the Frieze Art Fair in London’s Regent’s Park. And just like the previous two years we attended, the experience was extremely rewarding and inspiring. The fair is housed in a huge temporary structure right in the middle of the park. […]

Google Wave, the online collaborative tool heralded as the future of not only email but online communication in its entirety has reached the shore and died out. The ambitious project, predicted by Google to replace email in the same way as the computer spelt the end for the typewriter looked like it was going to […]

Gaining 11% of the market share in just under a year is no small feat – if growth continues at this rate Bing will outdo Yahoo by the end of this year. Are 78 million users just too lazy to use Google when Bing has been pre-installed on their new HP and Dell computers? As […]

Working for an online marketing agency, we spend a lot of time on Google. So you probably won’t be surprised to hear that the Coast Digital team uses the UK’s (and the world’s) most popular search engine for more than just finding information and checking our clients’ keyword rankings. In this post, I’ve collected together […]

About three weeks ago, we reported that the former editor of Scotsman.com, Stewart Kirkpatrick, was planning to launch an online newspaper in Scotland. At the time, Kirkpatrick announced that “Scotland needs an intelligent title that uses the internet, not fights against it” and that he’d “signed up leading writers, respected authorities in their fields and […]

As we entered the new decade (not a patch on the passing of the millennium), Google announced it had been blogging officially for five years. A late starter, you might think – especially as Google acquired the Blogger platform as early as 2003 – but it was certainly worth the wait. A blog is born […]

Once again, U2’s Bono has begun the New Year by announcing that he’d like not only like to have his cake, but that he intends to gobble it all up. By himself. If you’ve emerged from the festive season with less than normally alert hypocrisy sensors, prepare for an instant recalibration. This is from the […]

It’s no secret in the Coast Digital offices that I am not a fan of Apple’s iPhone; and that’s why I opted for an HTC Hero on a tariff from Orange. Without doubt, it is the most amazing phone I have ever owned. Although my phone is certainly better than your iPhone (if you have […]

The national newspaper websites are awash today with reports on Google’s refusal to remove a racially offensive image of Michelle Obama. The image in question depicts the first lady with simian features and is currently appearing as the top result in Google image searches for “Michelle Obama”. In reaction to numerous complaints, Google took out […]