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Depends, do you mean Blockbuster US, or Blockbuster UK or elsewhere?

US went bust along with Canada, although a buyer was found which kept open a few stores apparently.

If I rem rightly, (and no doubt google will soon tell you) the UK chain either bought out its master franchise, or did a deal and became a separate business from the US.

Personally I think it's a dated dying model, a shame but in reality it's been years since I last went into my local BB (if its even still there?) Suspect a lot of people are the same.

I think it's only a matter of time before it's reborn online only, as a streaming and online service, as it still has a powerful brand. Guess time will tell.

If you can see your emails headers (depends on your email client), then this can show you more info, but it is easy to spoof addresses, so it's no real assistance other than trouble shooting genuine email issues.

Hotmail are always getting accounts hacked, including mine! My account now just has an autoresponder saying that I dont use hotmail any more, and to use the contact form on our website if someone doesn't know any of my addresses

Looks like it's an annoying malware. Some good advice on the MS site:

When you encounter one of these fake virus pop-ups while browsing, immediately do the following:

-Do not touch any browser window to close it or browse further.
-Immediately press Ctrl-Alt-Del and bring up Task Manager and forcibly end all instances of iexplore.exe, if using Internet Explorer, or the executable for your browser for any other web browser.
--or--
-Go to Start/Shut Down and restart the PC without touching any browser windows.
-If you used task manager to close browser instances, reboot the machine.
-Then go to Control Panel/Internet Options and delete all temporary Internet Files and cookies. If you are using an alternate web browser, open the browser settings to do the same - delete the local cached files and cookies.
-Perform a full scan with MSE.
Remove Smart HDD Virus? - Microsoft Answers

We are slowly starting to move from scifi into reality!

I want some

BBC News - Google unveils Project Glass augmented reality eyewear

While I was actually doing some work, I spotted an unusual result in Google Search Results.

While the aim is always to appear as near the top as you can, another trick which is a good draw of traffic is to try and stand out.

Since we started showing reviews on our listings, these get picked up and displayed by Google which is good, but now they have added extra tabs to the map location and plus links to the reviews.

Not a great example as the poor listing has negative reviews, but interesting, as you can see how it stands out compared to competitors.



I can't find any other examples, so was this a Google test? Is this something that is about to be rolled out?

That's good to hear, just seems to me that one (very small) part of the population see this as a means to free cash, while the rest of us foot the bill with ever increasing insurance premiums, from cars to houses, employers liability etc.

Obviously there is a genuine need for legal representation, it's just the whole "where there's blame there's a claim mentality", which seems (in my opinion anyway ) to work hand in hand with a dependency on the welfare state.

Oh and is coincidentally more demographically likely to watch or participate in the Jeremy Kyle show rather than watch Question Time...

Right, going to stop ranting now

mmmm sounds good, though not helping my diet

Well we are a couple of weeks live, and apart from the usual bug fixing when you have lots of new code, the actual URL change has gone pretty smoothly.

There was a few days where all the performing keywords danced about, but it seems to have settled down, and early days but the mobile site seems to be warming up nicely and overall traffic is up marginly, which is a result, as I assumed we'd come crashing down

Alexa rank (I know, I know but it's a good yard stick) has dropped from 12 million 287,624 as of today, and is heading back to the old URL's level of just under 100,000.

PageRank has gone to zero, but I'm pretty sure that will come back on the next update, and is only vanity, as business signups are pretty constant, and so is revenue.

Overall, a lot less scary than I expected, and Googles happily indexing away just under 200,000 pages a day, so hopefully in a month it should have refreshed it's cache.

Time will tell if moving from .us to .com was worth the hassle, but the fact the .com was registered in 2001 versus 2008 will hopefully be the main bonus, plus everyone in the US seems to prefer a .com

Ahem.. Feel free to visit the home page and give us a Facebook Recommend, G +1 or leave a review as it's looking a bit feedback bare lol

Great topic.

I fell into twitter blindly, and went round adding loads of people, of which some then added me back. Then after a couple of months I went through and unadded anyone who hadn't added me. Then you repeat the cycle.

Years later I went to a Social Media training seminar, and got told exactly the same method for increasing your twitter following, although he did say try and keep it to people loosley related to your industry.

Somehow I felt a bit cheated It doesn't seem to be the correct way to build up a huge twitter following, unless your famous or a household name.

But maybe it is?

Personally I'm completely anti no win no fee, and it's introduction has sent us down the same path as America, with a whole ambulance chaser legal mentality, and daytime TV showing advert after advert of cheesy smiles, and those imortal words "have you had an accident in the last 5 years" or tripped over a payment, or smacked a lamp post, or fell out of bed? Maybe dropped a can of beans on your foot? Sue, sue....

Maybe I'm being overly harsh, but why is daytime TV saturated with these adverts? Who is the target audience? hmmm say no more....

Good to see you've dived in already

How about some local off line groups like BNI, chambers of commerce etc, you can normally have a free or introductory session, and can then do your seminar pitch.

Pretty sure there is a specific Yorkshire based online business forum, maybe be a bit of a google hunt.