Google Alerts is a great system that sends you an email you whenever a new page containing a word or phrase you have chosen to follow enters their search index.
You can create up to 1000 alerts on as many words and phrases as you like. You can also determine how often each alert is sent: [...]
Google have just further opened up their resources to developers with the introduction of Google Application Engine. Essentially it’s a web application hosting environment built upon Google’s network so it’s robust, distributed and scalable. If you’re familiar with Amazon’s S3, EC2 and SimpleDB, this is Google’s offering.
However, Google have gone further than Amazon and other [...]
This weeks (yes, I know it’s been a few weeks) free software is an online survey tool that enables you to collect opinions on what people think about your web site.
It’s very easy to implement, it’s very easy for the visitor to use, it’s free and it’ll provide you with invaluable feedback that can make [...]
Okay, this is a bit of a case of the pot calling the kettle black, as I often post quickly to this blog and don’t check spellings and grammar as thoroughly as I should. But for me, this blog is an experiment. It’s my blog, it reflects on me and me alone and I take [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Web analytics is a complex business and depending on how you measure traffic, you can come up with some wildly differing results. Like any kind of statistics, the raw information that you are provided with is largely neutral, it’s what you extrapolate from the data that matters.
Forget About The Home Page
I’ve recently been analysing traffic [...]
It’s been a busy month launching new web sites, creating surveys and writing proposals for clients, but I’ve finally had a window of opportunity to start writing again.
The next month looks like it’s going to be really interesting on the browser front as a slew of new versions are released, the new Mozilla messaging company [...]
Let me explain.
Internet Explorer (particularly IE6) is accused of holding back the web. When it was launched in 2001, it was was very advanced and the number of web designers created standards based web sites was negligible so it’s lack of standards compliance wasn’t such an issue.
Since then though, other browsers have raced ahead [...]
Safari 3 has recently become a first class citizen in the world of WYSIWYG Rich Text Editors. Until recently, the majority of Rich Text Editors didn’t support Safari so if you were using a content management system or blogging software to edit your content online then Safari would usually default to a plain old text [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )When you run a blog, people often steal your content and republish it on their own site so that they have more content to help create advertising revenue. A lot of this process is automated so the thieves never actually read the content. The great irony is that this article may well be “lifted” for [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )I have some dedicated servers that I use for hosting clients web sites, but have been following the relatively new hosting company, Mosso with some interest. I am very impressed with the idea of Mosso, but is it too good to be true?
They host on a grid and you can develop in ASP, .NET, PHP [...]
[UPDATE: This article was written in January 08. AIR is now live and out of beta. Air for Linux is currently in Alpha]
We’re only four weeks in to the new year and already it’s looking like Air will be the buzzword of the year. The Macbook Air may have stolen the limelight from Adobe’s new [...]
Plugg - A European Perspective On Web 2.0 - is a one day conference focussing on European internet startups which takes place in Brussels on the 18th of March.
Plugg Startup of the Year Award 2008
In addition to the usual conference format of speakers and networking opportunities, they are including a Startups Rally and are calling [...]
If you’re still scrabbling around for a New Year’s resolution try this one for size. Stop checking your blog stats so often and use that new found time to do something else.
Rather than firing up your browser and logging on to see how many new visits you’ve had in the past half hour, write something [...]
Low cost stock photography provider, iStockPhoto, will be changing its pricing structure as of January 7 2008. Credits for buying photography, videos and vector illustrations will cost between $0.97 and $1.30 depending on how many you buy.
Photos and vector illustrations still start at 1 credit each while videos start at 10 credits. The good news [...]
The web excels in connecting niche groups and provides the opportunity to be found no matter how obscure your interest.
There’s a lesson here for all of us that manage web sites. We too often focus on the home page of a web site and the broad, all encompassing search terms that we think our [...]
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