Posts Tagged ‘communities’

Manchester is top UK city

9th June 2009 3:03pm by Dick Branston posted in progress

It is official if we didn’t already know. Manchester is the best city in the UK! The home of fine dining, fine arts, seats of great learning, the best football team in England (second best in Europe!) and the best hosting company! It was already obvious wasn’t it?
Seriously, the Economist Intelligence Unit global liveability survey [...]

Lions and England rugby update

8th June 2009 11:16am by Dick Branston posted in progress

Well, Andrew Sheridan made it two wins out of two on the Lions’ tour at the weekend but once again the Saturday team struggled to victory in stark contrast to the rampant mid-week side.
It all started so well with the Lions’ 20 points up after 20 minutes against the Free State Cheetahs. However, the home [...]

swimming with sharks

19th May 2009 11:13am by Dick Branston posted in progress

UKFast is to take over as the main sponsor of the Sale Sharks from the start of next season. It is the first time we have been in the top sponsorship seat at the club although we have been an official supporter for almost a decade now.
The agreement is a historic one, involving a seven [...]

twitting money

16th April 2009 8:22am by Dick Branston posted in progress

Big online news stories at the moment all seem to be about getting hold of the gold at the end of the rainbow from new media web portals.
In terms of pure visitor numbers the likes of YouTube, Facebook and Twitter are undoubted giants of the internet but all are yet to successfully convert their popularity [...]

Community Spirit alive and well in Manchester

14th May 2008 6:12pm by Mother Superior posted in archived

For those who don’t know, Manchester is playing host to the UEFA Cup Final tonight and the city is full of Scottish and Russian fans. We’re very fortunate at UKFast to have one of the best vantage points in Manchester. Today, 28 floors above the city centre it is especially advantageous. The events in Piccadilly [...]

Believing the skype

17th July 2006 5:36pm by Chris N posted in archived

Much to my relief and much like Pink, I’m not dead. Good day once more, UKFast blog fans.
Voice over IP, or VOIP, is quickly gaining popularity. I have my ridiculous Captain Scarlet-style headset waiting at home, in order to talk to people half the world away about our respective brands of reality TV and chocolate [...]

Internet World filling up

26th April 2006 9:58am by Mother Superior posted in archived

It’s fantastic news that the Internet World exhibition is filling up at a record rate. But it also means that if you haven’t booked your place you really need to do it now. You can go direct to the Internet World site, or fill in a more basic form on the UKFast site that we [...]

The Internet as a set of communities

20th April 2006 6:06pm by Mother Superior posted in archived

Just the like world, the Internet grows as a set of communities. Many of the largest, the big portals are like the countries of the net and in order to participate in them we have to play by their rules.
EBay has just announced that it has a community of 200m. MySpace also has a huge [...]