And I’m not sure I like it! God I hate the Internet sometimes. Generally when I’ve just done something I spend all my time advising people against – buying based upon what someone you dont know says. I’ve just ordered some stuff from Graze.com on the basis of what Kieron from here.org.uk wrote in his [...]
Category Archives: Social Media
Social Networking – What is it good for?
April 29, 2008 – 4:27 pm
I’ve spent an age avoiding getting involved in Social Networking of any real note. I’ve always contributed to forums, stuck comments on blogs and wasted time on newsgroups. But recently I’ve been messing around researching what these Social Network things can do for me. The results have been surprising. Social Network – Ning At Ning [...]
Direct Response (Behaviourally Adaptive) Websites
April 23, 2008 – 11:38 pm
What if your website could talk directly to your consumers? I don’t mean just simply be relevant but be able to intuit from their actions what they really wanted from your website and then return tyhe appropriate messages? It would deliver better conversion rates and drive up your profitability. Irrelevant of how much it cost [...]
Blogging Rule 2 – Dont Steal Content
August 15, 2007 – 7:59 am
Content is what drives visitors to your website. Interesting content will keep people coming back. I see no problem with joining an online debate and starting a similar thread. But for god sake please be original. I just got a comment by the guy/gal that runs howtogettrafficonblogs.blogspot.com. Decent enough little comment. Unfortunately for them I’m [...]
Blogging Rule 1 – Blog comments are good
August 14, 2007 – 12:41 pm
One thing I love about blogs is there conversational nature. I find it great that people can share their opinions and thoughts on your blog and you can share on their blog. This creates a sense of community – as at the end of the day is what we are building. You want to build [...]
5 things for after Bank Holiday Monday
August 7, 2007 – 10:50 am
Brain is kinda dead and the body is not willing but we’ve driven through to provide a list of the five things we’ve found in our RSS inboxes this morning that have interested us. Yahoo must get its social media shit together – I dont know about you but this kind of headline in an [...]
Stumble Upon – A Waste of my time
July 13, 2007 – 10:43 am
Just spent far too long running about on Stumble Upon. Completely wasted my time. But this waste of time has been a great waste of time. Below are the couple of hits upon which I wasted the most time. http://www.linuxkungfu.org/images/fun/geek/project.jpg http://enigmaco.de/enigma/enigma.swf http://www.flickr.com/photos/w00kie/sets/180637/show/ http://www.miniajax.com/ http://www.antidrm.hpg.ig.com.br/ http://www.internetfrog.com/mypc/speedtest/ I would heartily reccomend to everyone to get the stumble [...]
The Telegraph.co.uk has a new blogging platform
May 22, 2007 – 9:05 pm
In the quest to locate new blogging platforms today I came across a new one located at my.telegraph.co.uk. I don’t read the telegraph I was just meandering about the supermarket looking for a paper and saw this bit at the top of the paper and thought I should try it. Review of my.telegraph.co.uk I was [...]
BBC teams up with YouTube
March 6, 2007 – 1:55 pm
The BBC has announced a tie in with YouTube today. This will mean that the video syndication site, owned by Google, will launch three branded BBC channels. The Entertainment channels will feature services such as Clips of shows YoutTube specific promotional videos Video Diaries Second Entertainment Channel will include: limited advertising clips from programs broadcasted [...]