Raining all day so been uploading photos onto site. Might just be the content I’m uploading today but astonishing just how violent our history has been. Today I’ve seen scores of castles, battlefields, warships, half-standing monasteries.
Went on a trip to Sussex and Kent before putting this site live and the same thought occured then when [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Violence
Posted in Uncategorized on April 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
UK weather
Posted in Uncategorized on April 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s blimmin freezing down here in the south west at the mo. I like the marked seasons in the UK, the change in colours, smells, landscape, light but there comes a point when you want it to heat up a bit. Warm April rain would do.
Which reminds me that we should have the weather on [...]
Old Media vs New Media
Posted in Uncategorized on April 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Spoke to some friends over the weekend who work for large publishing companies. It’s intriguing to compare the process of writing and publishing books to developing websites. Old Media seems to edit, edit, proof before it delivers the final fully formed article to the world. New Media throws a beta version out there and then iterates and [...]
Loaded on bluebells
Posted in Uncategorized on April 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Late April in the UK and bluebells are out. Was introduced to these flowers in my late teens at a RSPB reserve in Dorset called Garston Wood. Every year since I’ve looked forward to late April and the intoxicating smell and site of bluebells carpeting woods. Took the kids to Great Woods in Wiltshire today [...]
Domestic and Overseas Visitors to UK
Posted in Uncategorized on April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Reading the Kelkoo research (last post) made me return to stats that underpin picturetheuk’s business model. Whilst we only started developing this site Feb 28th 2008 as part of a change in direction for Zencudo Ltd, we’ve been researching the space for a wee while now.
There are about 30 million visits from overseas visitors and each [...]
UK holidays on the up :)
Posted in Uncategorized on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Interesting research from Kelkoo last month. In a nutshell, there seems to have been a massive uplift in domestic tourism and in travel shopping. Excerpts below and link to research …
‘ … statistics from Kelkoo show that the number of people searching for holidays in the UK is up by 39%, whilst searches for long haul holidays [...]
Thrilled.
Posted in Uncategorized on April 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Thrilled to write we’re now live. The site’s very much in beta and we’re steadily adding content from the ten thousand of so photos and videos we have at the moment. Whilst we’re expecting things to be quiet until we bulk up on content and develop the site further, it’s great to know the site’s ‘alive’ [...]
So what is ‘picturetheuk’?
Posted in Uncategorized on April 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We call it a UK tourism search engine. A tourism search engine that lets you see or picture the United Kingdom before you book your trip and go. It’s summed up by the little tag line below the logo: See.Book.Go.
In time, we hope you’ll be able to sit in front of your computer or TV and explore the UK through tens [...]
