The Godiva Festival’s new website was launched last week as preparations for this year’s festival begin to gather speed.

The new site includes a wealth of web 2.0 technologies including streaming video, user galleries and blogs. Additional functionality including streaming audio, podcasts and a community forum will also be made available in the build up to the big day.

The festival itself takes place on the 3rd – 5th July at War Memorial Park and the site will provide visitors with key festival information via a comprehensive “Godiva Guide”, but will also act as a social hub for the Coventry community throughout the year.

Dave Wright, Marketing Executive at CV One, had this to say of our work:

“Working with HeadRed has been extremely rewarding. Not only were we impressed with the very high standard of their work, but also their commitment and dedication to the project.

Their customer service has been second to none, with all staff being extremely responsive to queries, dealing with them in a very polite and helpful manner. It has been a pleasure working with HeadRed, as they have clearly understood our needs, and exceeded our expectations on both the Godiva Festival and Create Your Coventry websites.
We certainly will consider them for future projects.“

Visit the new site at: http://www.godivafestival.co.uk/

This past Thursday I was a guest on BBC Radio Coventry and Warwickshire. I spoke as part of a feature called “Going for a Song” on the Mark Powlett show.

The feature, which runs daily on Mark’s show, connects with local businesses and in exchange for a song request asks that a member of staff leave the office early.

I talked to Mark about HeadRed’s past, present and future and decided to send James, our SEO Guru, home early for all his good work. In exchange Mark played my requested song “Mr Blue Sky” by the Electric Light Orchestra.

I must say that the show itself was great fun to be involved with. Mark and Sarah, his producer, were very welcoming and a real pleasure to talk to.

For those interested, Thursday’s show can still be found on BBC iPlayer, but hurry as I’m only on there for one more day!

Hailed as a potential rival to search giant Google, new computation knowledge engine “Wolfram Alpha” has gone live to the public.

The new system was invented by British-born physicist Stephen Wolfram and is aiming to change the way people use online data.
Instead of presenting a list of third party websites where one can find the data they require, the engine provides users with direct answers to queries by grabbing data from databases and consulting feeds of relevant information.

Wolfram Alpha can be asked known facts, such as the height of mountains, or be asked to generate new information such as up to date figures for a nation’s GDP.

Dr.Wolfram does not want the engine to be referred to as a direct competitor to Google. Instead, he describes it as a way for people to get more out of the information on the web.

“Our goal is to make expert knowledge accessible to anyone, anywhere, anytime.”

Time will tell how influential Wolfram Alpha will become. Will it change the way we view the web? Or will it be yet another case of the emperor’s new clothes?

Try it for yourself at: http://www.wolframalpha.com/

Article source: BBC Online, 26/05/2009.

The new website for palletised distribution specialist, Palletline, was launched today.

The site features the most up-to-date web technologies and will provide potential customers with a quick, simple and user-friendly interface that will handle all of their pallet delivery needs.

The new site’s launch marks the first big step in Palletline’s goal to become the major online player in the pallet delivery industry.

You can visit the new Palletline website here:http://www.palletline.co.uk/