The much talked about Google Buzz launched last night, Twitter was buzzing with comments about it all night.  While there is a lot of excitement round it some commentators are a bit cynical about just what a success it will.  But like all things Google I bet they have plans to make it bigger and better over the coming year.

Today is apparently 'Cyber Monday', the name given to the busiest online shopping day of the year. The trade body for online retailers (IMRG) expect that we'll spend more than £5billion online this year which is up 14% from last year, with today delivering £350million of that.  All of that said online retail still only accounts for about 4% of total retail sales!

I wonder if zazzle.com are expecting bumper sales of this T-shirt today.

I really hope not. 

 (UPDATE: 1.43pm on Monday 7th Dec 2009 was the busiest online shopping minute ever with £1.4million spent online in just that minute.)

Augmented reality has been talked about and experimented with over the last year or two and finally someone has managed to sum up a number of the possibilities and applications in one short sweet non-techie 6 minute film clip.  Over to Dave from GoWeb3D ...

We've just launched Patak's new website having been appointed as their digital agency a few months back. The website launch marks Patak’s first major brand activity since Associated British Foods acquired the company from the founding Pathak family in May 2007.  Of course, we started the project with a detailed look at the sector and the brand.  We very quickly realised that the love the Pathak family have for Indian food is very much shared with the love that us Brits have for curry and so we thought the best way of bringing the brand and the family to life was to build their first ever online cookbook.

The NMA Top 100 digital agencies for 2009 were announced last night at a rather nice do that Howard and I attended in Soho.  

I'm pleased to announce that we came in at number 33 in the digital marketing agency list. Well done to the team and a big thank you to our clients for supporting us.

And you may remember we were ranked number 27 in the Top 100 ad agencies earlier this year - no other agency has this profile! And we are one of only three independents in the Top 30!