Insights

For Quack Hack 2014, ‘Team Served’ took the chance to conceive and develop Caddie: an internal web app to streamline how we manage Cyber-Duck’s servers. Caddie’s dashboard aimed to monitor and configure servers, so developers can quickly create and deploy beta websites, used to demo projects before launch.

Apple’s keynote event last week featured the usual suspects and some pleasant surprises. Our New Business Executive Tom Millson gives you the lowdown on the new iPhone 6 family, Apple Watch and Apple Pay, exploring what it could mean for your business.

This summer’s installation of The Digital Pond attracted our biggest crowd yet. Close to 200 user experience designers, web developers, product managers, marketers and other tech industry professionals packed the Clerkenwell Centre near Old Street. Speakers Jeremy Keith and Sally Jenkinson rewarded the audience with their expert insights on the responsive web.

We’re excited to reveal that Cyber-Duck is a finalist for two DADI Awards this year! We’re up for the Digital Team of the Year and Best Financial Services Website with our work for dlc. Aiming to reward digital excellence, the award nominations reflect the vision and success of our projects across the last year.

We’re happy to announce the start of an exciting new project at Cyber-Duck, creating a powerful brand with the Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI). We have been chosen to consolidate and amplify the IMI brand, providing a blueprint for the future as the organisation embarks on a new strategic direction from 2014.

If you are a business that holds online information about individuals, then be prepared to potentially receive notifications from Google at any moment. Why? Well, an individual may be exercising their ‘Right To Be Forgotten’ for the first time, which has resulted into the removal of certain links to your website on Google’s search engine results pages (SERPs). Here, I recap the ruling, reveal how it will affect business leaders, and debate its significance for the future.

Marketing Week Live is the UK’s largest marketing event, hosted annually by the team behind Marketing Week magazine. For the second year, two speakers from Cyber-Duck were invited to share their digital expertise, and convey the value of our agency. 

On the Edge is a series of annual digital marketing conferences hosted all around the UK. An eager crowd gathered in Birmingham last week for insights about industry leaders’ areas of expertise. Our Production Director Matt Gibson was there to enlighten the audience on why the responsive web is important, how Cyber-Duck approaches it, and what’s in store for the future of design.

In early June, three ducks (including me!) travelled to Amsterdam for a day filled with advanced CSS goodness. CSS Day is an intensive one-day-only conference for web developers, running for the second year. It is organised by the same people behind the brilliant Mobilism conference: Peter-Paul Koch, Krijn Hoetmer, Stephen Hay and Martijn van Duuren. This was one of the best conferences I’ve ever attended, and I’ve recapped the highlights of the day here.