that canadian girl

Google UK is holding a competition for kids: It’s your chance to design a Google logo and take over Dennis Hwang’s job for a day! Rupert at Google says: “Here in the UK, we wanted to let Dennis have the day off and give someone local the chance to get their artwork in front of [...]

I used to go on to my coworkers about my great advertising ideas, a few of which involved paint, oversized ads and Google Earth (usually after a few pints, they seemed GREAT!) But it looks like Maxim magasine has beat me to it by plastering its latest magasine cover in a 75×100 foot poster in [...]

I started the list wanting to post 10 items, but I can only think of four. What new useless facts have you learned recently? I always wondered where Mormons communities were and who they were. Only last week, I realised that the “Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints” long adverts I used to see [...]

It’s a known fact that all Google engineers get to dedicate 20% of their work time to a pet project. Jonathan Berger, from the Mac Applications team, notifies us of three funky widgets created by the Google team. One for the Blogger users, allowing you to post from the Dashboard (pah! WordPress has done that [...]

If you’re a Gmail user, you’ll know what I’m about to say. (And if you’re not, do yourself a favour and drop me a line so I can send you an invite, Gmail is just great!) So, as I was saying, another feature in Gmail, another weapon to Google’s arsenal. Google Chat has only been [...]

When Yorkshire farmers get bored, this is what happens… Exploitation of Google Maps technology at its best! Warning: Mother, avert your eyes, it’s a little bit rude!

I’m not American. I don’t “get” American football. But most of all, I don’t get the Superbowl hype, or the willingness of American enterprises to blow millions on 30-second adverts every year. While I do understand that it’s a once-a-year chance to reach a demographic group and hit it hard, it’s still fascinating to see [...]

No, I’m not talking about the Money Programme’s “The World According to Google” on which my company was featured as part of the Google Adwords (woohoo 15 secs fame for the PPC team – don’t go click on the ads though!) Through Web Pro News, I found The Prejudice Map. Apparently, the Australians are known [...]

Seeing as I am search result 130(ish) on Google when searching for “Sabine Schmidt”, if you happen to come across this post when searching for your name, could you please give my husband a ring because he fancies you a bit a lot. Thank you, Vero Peps PS – I’d rather he fancies you than [...]

Google Analytics has been down all day. It’s worked wonkily but HAS worked over the past few weeks. Now TODAY, of ALL days, I NEEEED it to work for me. But it won’t. And it’s pissing me off. Dear Google, please promise me you’ll stop biting bigger than you can chew. It’s bad for your [...]