Did you know that there are 31 billion searches on Google a month and 7 billion text messages are sent daily? Well, did you?

The good news for those of us who don’t speak Chinese is that other radical changes will occur in the next five years which will actually benefit us. We won’t send you to watch the full 45-minute interview available on YouTube – it’s a super-snooze fest and besides, the kind, now-snoozing-no-doubt ReadWriteWeb (www.readwriteweb.com) folk already did that for us. But we did think these points he made were interesting (highlighted by aforementioned now-snoozing ReadWriteWeb folk):

The Web, where is it going?
So we all know web 1.0 was the start of this web numbering system. I suppose that is obvious being the number 1 and all. So for some of you that may or may not know, we are currently in the web2.0 phase. We have been here since the web [...]

I am aware that every dog and his friend have done posts of this nature, but I was asked to do it for a Web Marketing Conference the other day so here goes…

Logo design is a fine and respected skill, the best way to face lift or relaunch a brand is to redesign the logo, sometimes it falls flat – other times it’s triumphant. Successful website and product redesign also serves to give a brand new life and respect.

www.colorcombos.com has been created to help web developers select and test the perfect colour combinations for online projects.
The Combo Tester allows web developers to see how different colour combinations work together on the screen while the Combo Library houses hundreds of colour swatches, along with their colour hex values.
You can also use the website colour [...]

Those of us who live in Africa are well aware of the dramatic and growth the web and mobile technologies are experiencing. Particularly in SA there is no shortage of tech intellectual capital and the industry is changing and growing at an exciting pace.

The term ‘Discomgoogolation’ has been coined to describe those people who are feeling stressed or anxious at an inability to access the internet. In a recent survey in the UK 44% of survey respondents are discomgoogolation sufferers, with over a quarter, 27% – admitting to rising stress levels when they are unable [...]

Many of the collaborators on this blog are designers – with this, and the fact that we’re a web-focused collective in mind, we’re constantly looking for the latest online trends and the best electronic design tips.
This post is taken from a Smashing Magazine story earlier this year. We feel it’s a very comprehensive well presented [...]

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Opera Software have released their State of the Mobile Web report, most significant is the fact that South Africa has jumped to 6th place in terms of mobile usage.
The report takes a look at the breadth of the mobile web. You might call this the Long Tail, a trend that in the case of [...]