Virtuaffinity News 2005

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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.?

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Russian city blocks YouTube
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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.?


At Last Our New Website is complete.

It was meant to be the new Virtuaffinity 2005 website and launched by March 2005 but finally it arrives just in time for the start of 2006. We've been so busy with everyone elses web work that our own site has repeatedly been put on the back burner.

As well as giving the site a facelift we've incorporated a few bits and pieces that we've been playing with over the year and have come to love.

Blogger

We love blogger and our own blog has grown to such an extent that we felt it worthy of becoming a part of our main site. We've branded it to look exactly like this site so it will fit in seamlessly.

Flickr

Still relatively new to us but it made an instant impression. Flickr is brilliantly simple but ticks all the boxes and is a great example of collaborative media sharing via the web. We're adding photos we take of our wonderings and displaying a random selection of 6 on our home page. It's a lovely way to have our home page look fresh and different on each visit. It's not big or clever but it's simple and effective which is something we like.

del.icio.us

del.icio.us is an online service that lets you save a list of your favourite websites and tag them with appropriate keywords. The beauty of it is that no matter where you go you'll always have your list of favourites with you. We're using it to display a list of sites we use regularly on our resources page so take a look to see if there is anything of interest to you.

December 2005 | Roy Wilding
Website Accessibility Working Group

I'm starting to "do my bit" for Manchester Digital. We start with the first in what I hope will be a series of events to drive Greater Manchester forwards as a centre of excellence for standards based intelligent website delivery. We're great believers in inclusivity and website accessibility is so very key to how we drive the web as whole forward. Consequently, in conjunction with Manchester Digital and with the very valuable assistance of the Manchester Digital Development agency, we are launching the Accessibility Working Group.

June 2005 | Simon Wharton
e-Tameside Site Launches

We've launched two new sites this month that are both taking part in the e-Tameside scheme.

Phill Page and Sons - Block Paving Manchester

Spanish Water Dogs

May 2005 | Roy Wilding
The Best Restaurant in Manchester

It was something of a POETS Friday today as Simon was treated to lunch at the best restaurant in Manchester. Believe me when I say that once you've tried the steak and kidney pudding, you can die happy.

April 2005 | Simon Wharton
Virtuaffinity to provide consultancy to Kintish

The rather talented and inspirational Will Kintish has retained VirtuAffinity to provide consultancy services to the Kintish organisation

April 2005 | Simon Wharton
Blog Off

We've both launched our own blogs in a bid to record our experiences of the Internet and the Internet service industry.

Simon Whartons Blog

Roy Wildings Blog

March 2005 | Roy Wilding
E V Leonard Phase 1 Complete

We've completed phase 1 of our e-marketing campaign for E V Leonard and the results are starting to show.

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March 2005 | Roy Wilding
Virtuaffinity contracted by E V Leonard to provide e-marketing support

VirtuAffinity are extremely chuffed that we have been contracted by E V Leonard to provide e-marketing support via their website. E V Leonard manafacture high quality Forklift Truck attachments including self dumping hoppers, jibs, booms and working platforms.

March 2005 | Simon Wharton