Your Cellphone Reception Will Be the Death of You
Posted by Jim Waters in LOL on 5th July 2010
If the world worked according to the rules of horror films, we’d be doomed. All the stupid people alive now would be dead due to, well, their own gibbering stupidity, while all of our technology would cease to function at the exact moment we needed it most. Don’t believe me? Check up the above video – an impressive collection of cringe-worthy “Damn! No reception!” horror clichés from the past decade.
No doubt that with the ubiquity of smart phones, soon horror films will be crammed with slack-jawed American teenagers screaming out “Oh my God, it’s deleted the Internet!” and “Oh sweet fancy Moses, he’s killing my Facebook friends off one by one!”
Seriously. Just you wait.
The Greatest Prank Calls of All Time Pt. 1
Posted by Jim Waters in LOL on 29th June 2010
Like pretty much every inanimate object in the world, the telephone can be used for either good or evil. You can use it for good things like ordering a bouquet of puppies for a sick child. Or you can use it for evil things like ordering a bouquet of dead puppies for a sick child. Now, we would never encourage you to use the phone for evil. That said, it would be churlish if we didn’t acknowledge modern telephony’s capacity for hilarity and high mischief.
Hence, we offer to you the first five of what we consider the greatest telephonical pranks of all time, pranks that we in no way condone in any shape or form and that we don’t encourage you to replicate and that we definitely, definitely never played any phone pranks when we were younger, especially that one where we got the neighbours to run screaming and half-clothed out of their semi-detached thinking it was on fire.
You might find a spot of profanity within the videos, so make sure your boss/kids/parole officer/dog is out of the room. And if you can think of any more, drop them in the comments below.
Crank Krall
In this lovely weather, why not work from home?
Posted by Powwownowteam in LOL on 28th June 2010
Just because the sun is shining, it doesn’t mean the road to work will be any easier….
How Women can Watch the England Game & Enjoy It!
Posted by Louise.Rowlands in Opinions on 23rd June 2010
For women the World Cup tournament can be the most dreaded four weeks, but with some of the tips below it can be better enjoyed, and you won’t annoy your man and other men around you.
Astound your man by sitting beside him during the football games and actually like watching it!
First off, the best way to enjoy football as a sport is to understand it. Many women do not know the first thing about football, which makes it incredibly boring and monotonous for them. When the World Cup starts and the games do not involve England is the best time to start. Sit down with your guy and have him walk you through the rules, regulation, and forms of play. This will make your man feel incredibly powerful and special because he knows something that you are not really familiar with. This can be a great thing because then he will take more care and explain in detail the game of football. Ask tons of questions about everything you are unsure of because when the group stage is over there will be no more questions.
Using Google Adwords for Small & Local Businesses
Posted by nick.emby in Guides & Useful Info on 22nd June 2010
Small businesses just don’t have the same high budgets as the big boys, but when it comes to PPC that doesn’t mean you can’t get your piece of the action, however small it may be. Yes, it may be difficult to keep up with limited resources, but by being shrewd and closely monitoring your campaign you too can achieve PPC success.
Here are a few simple points to get you on the right track:
Set your Location
Geographic targeting is very important; for example, if you are providing a local service it’s best for you to target a specific area so you are focusing your budget on the areas you are most likely to convert. You can set your location in the campaign settings, by clicking edit under Locations. You can either browse for your target location or you can use the custom targeting to specify a more precise area.
Ad Scheduling
Make use of Ad Scheduling; no doubt the big players in the industry will be running ads 24/7, but with a smaller budget means you have to be smart about what times your ads are shown. Depending on what industry you’re in, you might find that most your conversions come during day (e.g between 8am and 8pm) and very few over the weekends. Target the times of the day when you make most conversions and turn ads off on low converting times and days. This will help improve your keyword’s CTR (Click-Through Rate) and Quality Score, plus reduce the cost. Ad Scheduling can be implemented in the campaign Settings, under Advanced settings (look for Ad Scheduling and click on Edit).
Who said motor racing was a sport for the wealthy?
Posted by Powwownowteam in LOL on 21st June 2010
Thinking of going to the British Grand Prix at Silverstone this year? Here’s a way to get there without breaking the bank!
Back seats by Recaro, front seats by.... Homebase?
Ok, safety may be an issue, but it’s even a little bit green – less weight to propel, and easy to recycle…
Powwownow Tennis – Affiliated By LATA
Posted by Leigh.Moody in Opinions on 17th June 2010
Round 1
The first official LATA event took place in June with 3 members of the team battling it out on a perfect hard court surface. Stewart”Bullet Serve” Millard played Neil”Hampshire County Player” Sibbald in the first game which Neil choose to serve. This was Stewart first game in over 5 years and he managed to keep it close with Neil eventually winning a close fought contest.
Next it was Leigh”The Spin” Moody will his dodgy back and patched up knees, and who had also not picked up a racket in well over 5 years playing Neil. Neil won the toss and elected to serve which may have been a bad omen due to only playing 4 points and already being one game down. It was a fast paced match but eventually the power and speed around the court of Mr Moody was far to much for Mr Sibbald who had no answer and had to concede he had been outplayed by a far superior player.
Hunting Elephants in London
If you are not one of the fortunate few to be seeing the football in South Africa, you can still have a safari of sorts in the concrete jungle of London. The Elephant parade has hit London and is showcasing a total of 258 painted elephants all around the capital from May to July 2010.
Powwownow staff set to the streets for this good cause and captured as many elephants as they could on camera. They managed to get an impressive 129 elephants so far! See our gallery on Flickr…
Fancy a barbecue?
Posted by Powwownowteam in LOL on 14th June 2010
This brings new meaning to the phrase ‘Getting trolleyed at the barbie’!
Come Join LATA
Posted by Stewart.Millard in Opinions on 9th June 2010
Tennis is a great game and should not be just played when Wimbledon is on; we need to take it back to an all year round game, one that can be played by all not just privileged strawberry eaters.
LATA
I recently started to play Tennis again after a long time out of the game, It’s quite hard to convince someone to have a game, mainly if they have not played for a while; Also in colder weather it’s not on many peoples’ agendas, although I think it is well worth it, especially having a beer afterwards.
I think it is time that Tennis courts were taken back by real people rather than the privileged strawberry eaters and get playing again.
That is why I have co-created LATA (Lame Amateur Tennis Association), an association for all tennis players; So I hope that if anyone is interested in joining then let me know and we can encourage all players of any standard to get back into the game!
