Bebo is coming back
Bebo is coming back in February 2021
Happy New Year
Well, it’s been a wild year, and it looks like 2021 will take some taming too. So here’s us, wishing you all good fortune in all your endeavours.
eCommerce Still Riding High
Despite shops reopening, eCommerce is still taking a sizeable percentage of retail purchases as consumers prefer to shop online. The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics show that 26.6% of all UK retail purchases were made online. The retail figure for August 2020 is down from May’s lockdown spike of 32.8% but still […]
Facebook Buys Snopes
EDIT: This was an April Fool’s Day joke. It is not true. We thought it was obviously a joke to anyone with half a brain… but then conspiracy theorists started citing it in blog posts and we started getting a lot of traffic to this page. Rather than delete this post, we put this message […]
The Entrepreneurial Work-life Balance
One of our Founders, Alec East, was interviewed for The Guardian in an article about the entrepreneurial spirit and finding a work-life balance. We only discovered it because we spotted the backlink when checking our professional SEO tools. The reporter was exploring A survey from NotOnTheHighStreet, which showed that half of working fathers were questioning their work-life balance and starting their […]
FontDeck is closing
As of 1 December 2015, you won’t be able to create a new account on Fontdeck, the professional webfont service, and it will stop working on 1 December 2016. Obviously we will start migrating affected clients’ sites to one of the many alternatives to Fontdeck with immediate effect and there will be no disruption but the […]
The OED gets more responsive
People can be averse to change, even when that change is necessary & inevitable. The recent news that the Oxford English Dictionary is adding twitterati and meh have caused a bit of a fuss on the interweb because of this aversion to change, however there’s a more fundamental issue at play and, to truly understand the significance of this, we […]
Fall of the Robots
As a society we put a lot of faith in technology; sometimes too much. Every once in a while it’s worth remembering that even the most advanced technology can be every bit as fallible as a human being and, occasionally, it can be as fallible as a very drunk human being. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency have […]
ROTW Innovation Award
A huge congratulations to Rhythms of the World music festival who picked-up a Most Innovative Organisation/Business award at this year’s Flame awards. We’re very proud to be part of the award winning team, providing web consultancy to this exceptional non-profit music festival, alongside other amazingly talented people including Cath Cole, Inky Design, Dan Brammall and far too many other people to mention. Rhythms […]
Freelance Devs Wanted
Narrative is a web consultancy based in Bedford. We help organisations use the internet more effectively. We are currently looking for experienced freelance & full-time PHP developers and/or HTML/JS/CSS coders to join us. If you live around the Bedford area, this is an opportunity to avoid that expensive commute into London and do some well […]