A boom in Internet businesses could open hundreds of thousands of jobs in Britain within five years, a Google chief has claimed.
Philipp Schindler, the London based vice-president of Google Europe, predicted that despite the economic downturn 365,000 jobs could be on the cards by 2015 as more online firms emerge and grow.
Could new Internet businesses such as e-commerce websites start a new wave of employment in the UK, generating thousands of new jobs based around these businesses?
This is what Philipp Schindler, the London based vise-president of Google Europe seems to be suggesting.
If you’re starting up an e-commerce website or would like to do so and need some advice, feel free to contact us for advice and a quote on how much it would cost to get your new e-commerce website or idea off the ground!
Google have paid special attention today to users of Google Chrome who have difficulties keeping up with their web browser’s general speed. To aid in this they have released a finger exercise program dubbed the ‘Chromercise’ routine. They have released a instructional video to demonstrate the required exercise structure and all relevant safety precautions requires to perform Chromercise exercises prior to the user of the Chrome web browser.
Although we are not offering dedicated Chromercise instruction here at Rapid Web, we are beginning to enforce these as part of our regular health and safety routine. If you would like further advice on these procedures, please see the relevant Chromercise documentation.
It’s April Fools’ day today. It has come around quickly and I remember writing last year’s April Fools’ post regarding the crazy things large web companies has done.
In other completely unrelated news, Google have released a new motion control system, akin to the Wii’s controllers, Xbox connect and the PlayStation Move system. It is called ‘Google Motion’ and as per the majority of new Google products, it is currently considered beta. Take a look at the awesome video demonstrating Google Motion beta and its advanced universal gesture recognition system below.
Looks very impressive. We’ve already started making use of the new system for our internal development meetings. It both increases productivity and also gives us all a decent workout.
If you have any awesome April Fools’ jokes you’ve played this year on your website or in your workplace, feel free to put them in the comments. I’d be interested to hear what pranks have been played!
In terms of today’s customer service, as always, feel free to contact us. If you’d like to get yourself in on the April Fools’ day jokes and give your website an unexpected face-lift, feel free to give us a call.
Rapid Web is proud to announce to recent launch of the brand new Sporting Kicks e-commerce site. Sporting Kicks sell alternative football t-shirts and souvenirs.
Although Sporting Kicks have been in business for many years, they came to Rapid Web for a fully new e-commerce website and redesign. We took their existing e-commerce solution and converted it to a completely new and bespoke e-commerce system. To get to this solution, we offered consultation with Sporting Kicks regarding their existing web business and the best ways to move it forward.
Their database was migrated to a new format and integrated into our new solution. As part of this overhaul, many new features were added to the e-commerce experience. Below is a list of just some of the special features of the new Sporting Kicks website.
Integration into Amazon Marketplace
Automatic production of a dynamic Google Shopping Feed
Developing custom areas to include customisable featured products
Multiple payment options for the customer, including Debit/Credit card payments (via Moneybookers), Google Checkout and PayPal
Category specific filtering options to allow the user to easily browse the entire product catalogue
If you’re interested in seeing what we can do for your e-commerce business, please do get in contact!
There have been a crazy amount of April Fools’ jokes flying across the Internet today. Here are a few of the best from some of the biggest names.
Google Animal Translate
Google have supposedly released an ever so sneaky version of Google Translate that can translate animal noises in to English! This is a mobile application, suprisingly for the Android platform and is (not) available in the Android App Store.
Firebox is heavily known for its extravagant and crazy gadgets and gizmos. However, this one is quite a kicker – take a look at Firebox’s DIY Carbon Freezing Kit.
‘The freezing process itself is simple: just remove your clothes, lie down in the chamber, set the timer and…well, the next thing you know it’ll be 2040.’
Google goes into Nuclear Power Production
As part of a green initiative by Google, they intend to start producing super efficient nuclear power plants as soon as possible via a newly acquired company. Surely you will be able to Google Search the nuclear isotopes soon enough.
‘Google has acquired a company that has created a new process for highly efficient isotope separation, we’ve confirmed from multiple sources. The primary use of this technology, say experts we’ve spoken with, is uranium enrichment.
Enriched uranium is a necessary ingredient in the creation of nuclear energy, and one source we’ve spoken with at Google says that this is part of the Google Green Initiative. The company will use the new technology to enable it to design and possibly build small, mobile and highly efficient nuclear power generators. “Google has already begun building an enrichment plant,” says a high ranking IAEA source.’
In a bit of funny move from ThinkGeek, they have released a product called the iCade, which is effectively and arcade machine shaped holder for the new Apple iPad. Over recent product releases include:
Tell Me Your Secrets Bear – A cuddly bear which had a microphone and camera allowing parents to spy on their children and their secrets.
Canned Unicorn Meat – Which is… well, exactly what it says on the tin, apparently.
Plenty more…
It is still April Fools’ Day here and as such there are plenty more April Fools’ Day jokes and pranks going on worldwide on the Internet. If and when we find more hilarious pranks, we’ll be sure to keep you up to date.
Google renames to Topeka – ‘Early last month the mayor of Topeka, Kansas stunned the world by announcing that his city was changing its name to Google. We’ve been wondering ever since how best to honor that moving gesture. Today we are pleased to announce that as of 1AM (Central Daylight Time) April 1st, Google has officially changed our name to Topeka.’
Google Annotation Gallery – GAG is a open source libary for Java that allows programmers to easily express their emotions in the code… ‘The Google Annotations Gallery is an exciting new Java open source library that provides a rich set of annotations for developers to express themselves. Do you find the standard Java annotations dry and lackluster? Have you ever resorted to leaving messages to fellow developers with the @Deprecated annotation? Wouldn’t you rather leave a @LOL or @Facepalm instead? If so, then this is the gallery for you.’
Man arrested at Large Hadron Collider claims he’s from the future – He’s a time traveller from the future apparently, come here to stop the LHC experiments. When asked which country he came from, he answered: “Countries do not exist where I am from. The discovery of the Higgs boson led to limitless power, the elimination of poverty and Kit-Kats for everyone. It is a communist chocolate hellhole and I’m here to stop it ever happening.”
