Virtuaffinity News 2004
The Register - Music and Media
Biting the hand that feeds IT
Lovefilm calls in the DRM brigade for media player push
They're all at it
Lovefilm is the UK's answer to Netflix. And like Netflix it has a pressing problem. No, not Blockbuster.?
Sky clocks up £1bn profit
HD boosts money-making machine
Sky made a £1bn profit in the year to 30 June for the first time, with ARPU reaching £508 per subscriber. Annual revenue totalled £5.9bn, up 10 per cent year on year.?
Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff
Russian city blocks YouTube
Clampdown on 'extremist' material
The Russian city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur has ordered ISP Rosnet to "restrict access" to YouTube and four other websites containing "extremist" material, Pravda reports.?
Facebook beta joins web Q&A craze
Ask 500 million people a question...bitch
Facebook has unveiled a limited beta of its long-rumored question-and-answer service, a tool that lets you toss questions at people who spend lots of time on Facebook.?
Google brews (another) Facebook rival, says report
'Beyond' Buzz
Google is in talks with various online gaming companies as part of an effort to develop (another) Facebook competitor, according to a report citing people familiar with the matter.?
- Onspeed Dial Up Compression
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It never rains etc. etc. After months of quiet we are making constant changes and enhancements to our services. We can now deliver ONSPEED dialup compression across our range of ISPs.
The ongoing cost is £1.99 a month for up to 5 times your usual speed. You can download an ONSPEED free trial to test it with no obligation and all that.
- December 2004 | Simon Wharton
- Virtuaffinity accepted onto E-Tameside Approved Supplier List
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VirtuAffinity has been accepted onto the E-Tameside approved supplier list. There's a lot of hoops to jump through inclusing being able to build fully accessible websites. If you'd like to talk to us about accessibility, give us a call
- November 2004 | Simon Wharton
- A Flurry of new websites for VirtuAffinity Customers
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It's been a hectic few months with a number of projects coming together all of a sudden. We were very pleased to launch the Northern Film Network website which has been something of a labour of love. NFN caters for anyone and everyone involved in film in any capacity in the North West. Which is probably why it's called the Northern Film Network.
Another site we very much enjoyed delivering was The Place Apartment Hotel . Our brief was to deliver a site that capitalised on the uniqueness of the Hotel and was a really strong online brand. A key crtiterion was that the site be deeply indexable and generate significant revenue returns as well as looking damn stylish. The commission was in conjunction with the rather marvellous Adoofa who are handling the marketing and optimisation.
We have been working with Manchester Business Consortium for quite some time. Not only have they provided us with superb support and advice, they have also engaged us to deliver conbsultancy on their behalf and in conjunction with the MDDA . We've been out to see a lot of local business and we hope we've been useful to one or two. If you know any business in the Greater Manchester area, we may be able to bring in some support and consultancy to help then with many aspects of their business. By the way, we built their site as well.
- November 2004 | Simon Wharton
- VirtuAffinity Re-brand ISP Range
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VirtuAffinity provide a range of ISP services under a number of popular brands. Our major brands are 1 2 Free Internet Access and Free UK ISP Over the summer we upgraded our systems and added in a good number of new services such as Anti Virus Filter on all email, anti spam filter on all e-mail, ISDN internet access . As you would expect with the free ISP concept, you can get good quality dial up internet access.
The marketing behind these ISPs is purely via Search Engine Optimisation resulting in high rankings in natural search. Another string to the VirtuAffinity bow.
- November 2004 | Simon Wharton
- Virtuaffinity awarded "company of the month" by digital media watch
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Digital Media Watch is an industry monitoring unit and information hub dedicated to the digital media industries in the Northwest. For the month of May they have awarded Virtuaffinity their "Company of the month".
- May 2004 | Roy Wilding
- Virtuaffinity And Manchester Business Consortium (MBC)
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VirtuAffinity have been appointed to assist deployment of the Manchester Business Consortium as a Technology Means Business accreditation centre. www.manchester-tmb.co.uk Technology Means Business is the nationally recognised standard for technology consultants. Anyone who is a technology consultant, business advisor, IT reseller or financial consultant should give some consideration to achieving TMB accreditation as a badge of quality.
- February 2004 | Roy Wilding
- Online Marketing in the Real World
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Thursday 11th March, 7pm at The CircleClub in Manchester.
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Following the success of the WiFi event last year, we have been persuaded to host another event at The CircleClub . The last event was anything but formal. In fact it was something of a boozy verbal punch up. But the main thing is that it had considerable impact. See Bossco for some exciting results.
This time, we're tired of the usual rubbish about marketing, SPAM and so on. So we're going to tell it like it is. We have three short and pithy presentations for your delight:
"The New Anti-Spam Regulations - is anyone taking any notice?" which will be delivered by Raj Mahapatra of VLegal
http://www.vlegal.co.uk"Paid Placement in a Changing New Media Market", delivered by Peter Cobley of Overture
http://www.content.overture.com/d/?mkt=uk"Is Online Marketing Part of Your Business Strategy?" by Clare Johnson of Adoofa
http://www.adoofa.comIf you'd like to attend, please drop us a line at info@virtuaffinity.com
- February 2004 | Roy Wilding
- VirtuAffinity adds e-mail marketing to growing portfolio.
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VirtuAffinity now offer a full e-marketing suite. It may be useful for you. It might not be. In the first instance, give us a call or drop us a line so we can understand a little more about your requirements.
Tel: 0870 757 4888
E-Mail: info@virtuaffinity.comFor more information about our services and products, read on...
Mail marketing is a cheap and effective method of communicating with your customers. Keep them informed and they will stay loyal. They may even bring you more custom. The tricky thing is that mail marketing requires you to be very careful about who you contact and how, otherwise you are effectively delivering Spam. Have you considered how much time you might spend managing a mailing list in Outlook? Will your network provider allow you to send out mass mails? Can you format your mails professionally? Many questions with one simple answer...
http://reseller.roving.com/index.jsp?pn=virtuaffinityHow good is your marketing campaign? Who is looking at your site? What pages are they looking at?
You need to understand how your website is or isn't working for you. Full details of the website hit tracking tool can be found here:
http://virtuaffinity.hitslink.comPlease help yourself to a free trial and if you need some assistance implementing it, please give us a call.
Your website will only work for you if it can be found. If it can't be found via a search engine, new business is going to struggle to find you. Make sure that the search engines know you are there by using the Submitter tool:
http://virtuaffinity.submitter.netIs your website down? How do you know you are getting what you pay for? First Warning will take care of that:
http://virtuaffinity.1stwarning.com - January 2004 | Simon Wharton
