Stephen Keable

When posting a YouTube video on a website of mine, I wanted to illustrate it with a thumbnail of the video without loading the video itself. This had for a while meant screen grabbing, cropping and uploading the image, which is rather time consuming. I came across the URLs to the YouTube automatically generated thumbnails:- [...]

Whilst looking through referring domain and traffic source reports for a couple of websites, I was intrigued  by the amount of traffic coming from ISP homepage portals such as:- orange.co.uk sky.com bt.yahoo.com talktalk.co.uk aol.co.uk These pages are often set as homepages when installing your ISP’s broadband software, or commonly used by home users who have [...]

I picked up a can of Pepsi today and noticed they are running yet another ring-pull code based competition, nothing new there. However when I looked at the entry methods, alongside the ubiquitous ”text to enter”, the online entry method has been replaced by an address for their Facebook page. Visiting the page they have a Facebook [...]

I’m proud to say that last week I collected the Website of the Year award for EDP24, at the EDF Energy East of England Media Awards 2010. EDP24 is the website for the Norfolk daily newspaper the Eastern Daily Press, which also picked up Daily Newspaper of the Year too, I work as Digital Developer [...]

Foursquare recently launched the new photos feature on their website, iPhone and Android apps. Which adds another cool features to an already great geo-location service. However so far the website doesn’t allow you to add photos, you can only do it via the iPhone or Android app. When the photos feature launched I wanted to [...]

With Christmas only a few days away, I thought I would give my friends over at Soak a shout out, as they have created a brilliant Christmas microsite. It’s great little site that allows you to share your dream Christmas and potentially win a Harrods Hamper too. The design is a wonderful 50s treatment and [...]

So after having the bright idea of creating Foursquare badges in Call of Duty Black Ops, I tweeted a pic to Dennis Crowley, who then asked me to write a blog post and he would kindly re-tweet it for me. I couldn’t possibly refuse this as such a Foursquare fan-boy. However a few minutes after [...]

So what is a hashtag? It’s a word prefixed with a hash symbol so #hashtag, #twitter etc added normally to the end of a tweet. It’s normally used to tag a tweet or link with a topic, similar to how meta keywords used to work for search engines to tell the search engine what the [...]

Since the arrival of the iPad and it’s lack of Flash support, lots of people have moaned about video and interactive elements on websites no longer working on many sites. We have then seen big PR and marketing pushes by lots of websites saying they are now iPad compatible. The thing which hasn’t gotten as much press [...]

So this is my desk and where I edit my photos, write blog posts, design things and beaver away at code, on the evenings and weekends. I’ve finally got it almost the way I want it in the lounge, with a bookcase of books full of inspiration and near the stereo (which was playing The [...]