http://www.creativecog.com Andrew Watson, Information Architect / Online Strategy Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:05:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_461" align="alignleft" width="290" caption="Cyber Pocket"][/caption]The VTech V.Smile Cyber Pocket is a cool portable educational gaming system turns game time into brain time! Features include: New flip-up screen Touch sensitive pad TV connectable Compatible with V.Smile learning games Available in Pink or Blue Recommended Links V.Smile Cyber Pocket product information http://www.creativecog.com/2008/11/07/vsmile-cyber-pocket/ [caption id="attachment_488" align="alignleft" width="290" caption="32GB ZEN X-Fi"] [/caption] Having bought an original Creative Zen over 4 years ago, when it started to play up I could hardly blame it. It has gone everywhere with me... to the gym, numerous trips around the world and to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro. The mobile phone industry ... http://www.creativecog.com/2008/11/01/creative-zen-x-fi/ [caption id="attachment_441" align="alignleft" width="290" caption="isobot"][/caption] Okay so Friday Fun this week combines toys and technology with the world's smallest mass produced bi-pedal humanoid robot! This is one cool toy and reminds me of my childhood spent building radio sets, lego robots, small electronic sets and eventually my first PC. I-sobot measures only 16cm and ... http://www.creativecog.com/2008/10/31/i-sobot-robot-review-action/ [caption id="attachment_319" align="alignleft" width="290" caption="Tag Cloud"][/caption] In general a tag or word cloud is a visual representation of user-generated tags. They provide visitors to the website with an additional path to navigate the website, and search engines an additional route to use when indexing pages. Tags are usually single words and are ... http://www.creativecog.com/2008/10/29/what-are-tag-clouds/ [caption id="attachment_247" align="alignleft" width="290" caption="Tomy UK"][/caption] Working closely within the toy industry, this blog sometimes seems to be filled with articles about the latest toys, top toys, new games etc... so it is perhaps inevitable that as we draw closer to Chritmas 2008 more articles will be added focussed on some ... http://www.creativecog.com/2008/10/24/tomy-toys-games/ With Christmas fast approching, it looks like my posts on toys are gaining momentum... or at least quantity. Although Lego looks like the big wish on my kids toy list, it is interesting to see which toys are predicted to be top sellers in Christmas 2008. Toy Retailers Association has defined ... http://www.creativecog.com/2008/10/17/top-tech-toys-christmas-2008/ [caption id="attachment_325" align="alignleft" width="290" caption="Web Stats"][/caption]Well the browser market share stats are in for the month of September - and what a month to remember with the début of Google Chrome at the start. How did Chrome do? Did Firefox continue its insatiable growth? Did Safari make any further in ... http://www.creativecog.com/2008/10/02/chrome-makes-a-big-entrance/ [caption id="attachment_260" align="alignleft" width="290" caption="Google Chrome Bookmarks"][/caption]Well it has been nearly a month since installing Google Chrome, and I have to say I am really impressed by it. So much so, that it has become my browser of choice! Having looked through a number of browser stats of late, it ... http://www.creativecog.com/2008/10/02/google-chrome-bookmarks/ [caption id="attachment_212" align="alignleft" width="290" caption="Talking Thomas Draw and Drive"][/caption]With a young child I get to interact with a whole range of toys (you can probably tell from other articles within this blog)... but what I am starting to find (as I get older) is that now other friends and family ... http://www.creativecog.com/2008/09/15/talking-thomas-draw-and-drive/ [caption id="attachment_253" align="alignleft" width="290" caption="Google Chrome"][/caption]A while ago, there was a rumour that Google was working on a new browser. On arriving in the office this morning I find out that Google Chrome is due to launch today, this moring all I could find was the ‘comic book’ talking Google ... http://www.creativecog.com/2008/09/02/google-chrome/ Having signed up to most of the Windows Live suite of products, it is nice to finally see them all coming together into one comprehensive platform. So I thought I would at last try Live Spaces (my usual ravings appear at my personal blog: Andrew Watson So for my first ... http://www.creativecog.com/2008/08/12/integrating-online-assets/ What do terms such as page view, unique page view and time on site mean? Page Views The total number of pages viewed. Repeated views of a single page are counted. Unique Page Views The number of visits during which one or more of these pages was viewed. Time on Page The average amount of time ... http://www.creativecog.com/2008/07/10/google-analytics-terms-meaning/ The UK version of the BBC website is supposed to be funded by the British taxpayer... but increasingly they seem to be looking for ways of monetising that content - and some of those ways are very underhand. I don't have an issue with the BBC monetising content... what I have an issue ... http://www.creativecog.com/2008/07/03/bbc-profiting-from-visitors/ [caption id="attachment_391" align="alignleft" width="290" caption="Microsoft Surface"][/caption] Microsoft Surface is one of those pieces of technology that marks a milestone. http://www.creativecog.com/2008/07/01/microsoft-surface/ [caption id="attachment_230" align="alignleft" width="290" caption="Popfly Flickr API"][/caption]Following from my visit to the Microsoft Popfly website earlier this month, and the ease at which I was able to tap into the Facebook api... I thought I would see what quick and aimless game could be created for a little Friday fun. So ... http://www.creativecog.com/2008/03/28/facebook-wack-a-mole-photo/