If you have recently spent any time in the UK or US, you will no doubt be aware of the vast difference in eCommerce between SA and those countries. In statistics, the difference is made clear: in 2010, UK shoppers spent £58.8 billion ($92 billion) online, while South Africans did a paltry R2 billion ($254 million). Even accounting for […]
Craig Raw
Craig Raw is CTO of Quirk Marketing Agency. A youth of programming, starting with BASIC on a ZX Spectrum, led to a career of software architecture and development. Craig has worked on all of Quirk's active projects from the heady days of early entrepreneurship to maturity, although being best known for the SearchStatus Firefox extension. When not managing or coding Quirk, he contributes to several blogs on topics of technology and marketing, including GottaQuirk and BrandsEye.
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Ignore the URL at your peril
In the online world, the URL is ever-present. It is the digital home of businesses large and small, the currency of social exchange, and the thread on which the hyperlinked web exists. There can be few more important building blocks to the Internet as we know it, but all too often the humble URL has […]
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Can search emulate the web browser?
Firefox, as of its recent third incarnation, must be one of the most successful software projects to date. It’s common knowledge that it’s challenging Internet Explorer for supremacy as its user base grows with every release and every year. There are three things, in my mind, that set it apart from most other software projects […]
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Firefox 3 and SearchStatus
With the release of Firefox 3 earlier this week, there was some anticipation around the QuirkStation that the SearchStatus download page (and thus www.quirk.biz) would see some increased traffic as users updated their extensions to be compatible with the new browser version. Firefox changes quite a bit with each new major release and so must […]