The last six months have seen some consolidation of existing online companies in exchange for rather large figures. The most notable of these was Google’s acquisition of YouTube for $1.65 billion, a deal in which Google won over rivals Yahoo. YouTube claims more than 100 million videos are viewed daily on its site, making it the No.2 video site on the internet after MySpace. The industry viewed the move with a variety of opinions much of which circled around the price. Rob Enderle, principal analyst with Enderle Group said of the deal “Google paid an incredibly high price for a property that has yet to generate any appreciable profit”.
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News-in-brief: Ben Sherman site launches
2007 March 20 by
Last week marked the launch of Ben Sherman’s four global sites.
Working with Cimex Media, I developed the highly browser compatible HTML & CSS throughout the site.
It marks a coming of age for many international brands, who are beginning to take accessibility, modern technologies and social networking as a serious part of their business models.
Moving to a new home
2006 December 17 by
Over the next month or so, the weblog will be taking a less obtrusive place on the website. This will allow more personal freedom to talk about a greater amount of subjects and technical articles which are of little use to our clients.
Also the site will be backed with a new CMS; Radiant CMS. A Ruby On Rails powered application with a beautifully simple control panel.
It’s exciting that we may have found an ideal CMS for our clients. A great site backed by easy customisation. Hell if I needed a website, I’d surely hire them four shapes guys!
Take it easy and have a great Christmas everyone!
Update - Four Shapes news in brief
2006 August 13 by
It’s been an exciting month, cleaning up the web by converting many sites to proficiently coded XHTML/CSS. Allowing businesses to have fast, search engine friendly, flexible sites.
August will be another great month as we move towards the launch of our new web service, CodePress. Details to follow.
Production methods
Ruby On Rails
Looking for methods of increasing efficiency throughout our development process, we’ve decided to adopt Ruby, with the Rails framework, as our potential main production language. After careful research, it became apparent that this framework was specifically tailored to our needs. No-nonsense, efficient, web development.
