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If you needed further evidence that e-commerce is massive in the UK and set to get even bigger, a recent study has confirmed it. The UK is ranked top of all G20 nations in terms of the amount the internet contributes to its GDP. Taken as a sector alone, that’s more than healthcare, education and construction. Some of the UK’s ...

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You can’t have failed to notice those ubiquitous little buttons found on many web pages exhorting you to ‘like’, ‘share’ or ‘Tweet’. These aren’t just put there for vanity or because of some need for validation – they’re actually valuable tools for selling. Search engines consider these social media signals as a good indicator of how web site users value ...

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Blogs – you may wonder what the point is. After all, is anybody really listening? Well, yes they are. What’s more, there is an audience out there for you. If you approach blogging in the correct way, you are actually building a brand for your e-commerce business. Major companies spend millions on branding activities through web development agencies every year ...

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Whimventory allows you to create wishlists while you shop online. Using a bookmarklet you add to your web browser, you can add new items to different lists without leaving the site you’re shopping from. Once you have a list, you can sort, filter, and edit the items in it. You can also share lists with others, or keep them private. ...

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Red Bull recently launched a very cool site called, www.streetartview.com. This site allows anyone from anywhere to use google street view as a means of “bookmarking” their favorite street art all over the globe to form one massive online collection. In time, Red Bull hopes that with your help, they can collectively create the world’s largest art collection. www.streetartview.com via: ...

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YouTube Map My Summer [youtube.com] is a new YouTube experiment that tries to provide a more meaningful interface to recently submitted Australian videos. In the end, the project should create a compelling archive of the events, experiences and people from all around Australia during summer (remember, it is summer now down under).

In essence, the project tries to filter the related metadata according to the categories Activity, People or Place, while it maps all the videos on a (unfortunately invisible…) map of Australia. As a result, people can discover those specific videos that take place on a beach, show extraterrestrials, or somehow relate to a wedding. In addition, statistical data about the submitted movies according to their geographical location can be discovered through interactive donut graphs that are colored according to the three categories.

Via Visualising Data.

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Geo Tagging has become an ever increasing trend with fellow smart phone users and their mobile tech, to be precise around 7 Million users share their approximate location with their friends on the ever so popular 4Square,  but to its further success Facebook at the tail end of 2010 released their version of the platform, called it Facebook Places. Your ...

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There’s plenty recipe search sites on the web available to cooks, including AllRecipes, Epicurious, FoodTV and many others. Foodily is attempting to make recipe search more social today with an in-depth Facebook integration, menu planning, and more. Foodily aggregates recipes from big name chefs on sites like FoodTV to up and coming bloggers. Results are actually presented side-by-side, which makes comparing ...

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The Noun Project follows an inspirational idea of a shared visual language. It is a collection of visualizations and symbols that characterize a word or “noun” in our language, and hopefully, mean the same thing to us all. Creating a visual language, in my opinion, should not be something that happens overnight, it should evolve the same way the English language evolved – over time. I ...

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This Foursquare infographic shows an impressive 2010, a 3,400% growth was reached by the social network. The location-based website published this stunning infographic to show its success. The illustration also announces 6 million worldwide users. The graphs presents some staggering figures for the company, like its 381,576,305 worldwide check-ins last year, plus its first one from outer space. Some other fun facts ...

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GAIN Fitness, a web based personal fitness service built by a team that includes two former Googlers, has launched in early Alpha mode to the public today. The service aims to help users make the most of the limited time to exercise, by recommending personalized workouts built from a list of 400 exercises and based on a user’s goals and ...

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In a shocking report from Hitwise, it is now clear that Facebook was the most visited site on the internet in the US for 2010, beating Google out of its crown. In 2010, Facebook accumulated some 8.93% of site visits online, while Google secured just 7.19%. However, YouTube took in 3.52%, and so if you combine Google properties they are in aggregate ...

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