Working with the internet day in and day out has some benefits. Besides a natural affinity for cats with grammatically incorrect captions, we are also privileged with access and knowledge of a wide range of web applications. In this blog post I’ll take you through my four favourite apps, excluding the more mainstream suspects such as Gmail, Facebook, etc.

What do dating websites, hospitals and Google have in common? They’re all – to certain extents – using data to optimise, predict and perform better. And now you can too.

Welcome to 2011. It seems at the end of every year we attempt to look into our crystal balls to predict the areas of focus that will be important for the coming year. We’ve put our heads together to come up with our own top 5 list of areas where we expect there will be significant attention in during 2011.

When we talk about websites on mobile devices the iPhone almost immediately becomes the focus of conversation… but why? It’s not just because designers like Macs that we focus on Apple’s mobile product above other devices. The basic figures seem to indicate that the focus is misplaced: iPhone accounts for barely 15% of mobile phone sales worldwide (http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/02/01/the-iphone-grabsloses-market-share/) while Nokia is edging up to 40% of sales (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia) .