Watching the Web
How to bag a bargain and sell for profit
Small-scale property developers have been doing it for years: buy a run-down house, do it up, and sell it at a decent profit. But it seems that in America, where most internet trends begin, they’re doing the same with websites.
Inside Watching the Web
Firms turn over a new leaf
Monday, 18 August 2008
We have seen the internet transform industries such as travel, retailing and property sales. Next up: the book business.
Benefits of being sociable
Monday, 28 July 2008
Most of us think of the web as a place where we can extend our bricks-and-mortar business. Independent News & Media, the owner of the newspaper you are reading, has demonstrated how a core media business can diversify into other spheres of commerce – see www.nicarfinder.co.uk for just one example.
Firms must play internet name game
Monday, 21 July 2008
Well, the decision by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (www.icann.org), to relax the rules on top-level domains means that the number of suffixes in web addresses (such as .com, .biz, .net or .info) will rise from 21 to perhaps thousands or even millions. Nobody yet knows.
Power of cyberspace gets major vote of confidence
Monday, 16 June 2008
Five months ago, in early January, one of my predictions for 2008 was that this year would see the first broadband US Presidential election, with much of the action taking place on the internet.
rill deep to find right blend
Wednesday, 30 January 2008
NOW and again you'll come across something on the internet that makes you think "I wish I'd done that".
Don't Google, search for it
Monday, 21 January 2008
There's a tendency these days to assume that the word 'search' is the same as the word 'Google', for most people, when looking for something, opt for the world's biggest search engine (www.google.com).
Web Watch: Retailers quids in already
Monday, 17 December 2007
My prediction of a substantial rise in online sales over the festive season is only a couple of weeks old, but already it has been overtaken by events.
Web Watch: Welcome to chicklet world
Monday, 10 December 2007
If you have been paying attention while visiting certain websites recently you may have noticed a plethora of pictorial icons at the bottom of the page.
Columnist Comments
• View From Dublin: Give us serenity to see out economic turmoil
The famous prayer attributed to the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr asks for the serenity to accept the things one cannot change, and the courage to change the things one can. Shrewdly, Dr Niebuhr also asked for the wisdom to know the difference.
• Executive decisions vital to safeguard NI Water’s future
NORTHERN Ireland Water (NIW) is too important as a public utility to be a shuttlecock between uncertain political direction and aggressive regulatory intervention.
• View From London: A spoonful of Reaganism can help the inflation medicine to go down
Two weeks ago we learned that retail sales in the UK fell 3.9% in June and that Tim Besley, a member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee, voted at the last committee meeting for an interest rate increase. This combination is rather intriguing.
Business Poll: Corporation Tax?
Should Northern Ireland be allowed to adopt the same rate of Corporaton Tax as the Republic?
Should Northern Ireland be allowed to adopt the same rate of Corporaton Tax as the Republic?
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| No |
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Poll: Tasers and the police
Do you support the use of Tasers by the PSNI?
Do you support the use of Tasers by the PSNI?
| Yes, it is better than using firearms |
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| Yes, but only in exceptional circumstances |
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| No, I'm genuinely concerned about the safety of Tasers |
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| No, the police should not have these weapons |
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Keane signs Healy
Do you think David Healy will be a success at Sunderland?
Sport legends
Who is Northern Ireland's greatest sports person of modern times?
Who is Northern Ireland's greatest sports person of modern times?
| George Best |
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| Tony McCoy |
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| Darren Clarke |
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| Barry McGuigan |
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| Mary Peters |
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| Willie John McBride |
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| Peter Canavan |
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| Joey Dunlop |
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| David Healy |
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| Alex Higgins |
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