In my ongoing search for being more efficient (and it is a tireless cause), I came across this very interesting article. It claims that instead of picking your nose/sharpening your pencil/surfing the net you should prioritise what you need to do and have a project at the top of the list that is big and […]
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the semantic web
There is a lot of hype around about the semantic web and web 3.0 at the moment, but how many people actually know what its all about (note: its not tagging a youtube video so that it shows up in the natural links) . This article explains the different technologies which are currently in place; […]
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music- my way
My promised post about my music consumption online is finally ready.The times/places of music listening determine the formats that I listen to;On my way to the train I listen to my mp3 player, and on the train I listen to either my mp3 player or tracks on my computer.At home I listen to records.In the […]
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Rickroll’d
Excellent video of Steve Ballmer explaining how acquiring Yahoo! would fit well into their strategy What I just did there is part of an online phenomena called “rickrolling”;You claim to have some very interesting piece of content and then you link it to Rick Astley’s classic 80’s hit; “never gonna give you up”. Although it […]
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me vs teh internets
The internet has become so woven into my lifestyle that I cant think of a time when it wasn’t part of what I do (and I got shocked the other day when friends explained that their only ecommerce activity had been buying books from amazon,this is 2008 even my mom does that). What these and […]
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Alexa overhauls tracking
As previously complained about, Alexa is not the most effective measured form of traffic measurement. But it’s global, and free, so that makes it more difficult to complain about. this has all changed with the release of their new method of calculation,; according to their press release; “Your ranking wasn’t wrong before, but it was […]
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Interesting book
I read this word of mouth book a couple of years ago (but I was in hospital, so maybe it didn’t stick so well). This time I read it, and it made a whole lot of sense. Along with widgets and seo it fits into my favourite kind of web traffic- free!The steps in the […]
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Trademark & scrollable ads
in other Google news (i’m not just following them, honest). it is now possible to bid on trademarked terms in the UK and Ireland similar to the US system. I’m not sure of the customer advantage here either… also Adsense now has ads which are scrollable, it makes senseto increase the amount of inventory that […]
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new google functionality
interesting new functionality which provides an extra search within a site functionality. quite interesting, but i’m not sure why it’s on Google’s site, does it allow for extra ads potentially to be served? Update: i have spoken to Google about this, and apparently you can make yourself exempt from this process; The site: search operator […]
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cool website
this is pretty great;http://producten.hema.nl/a heath robinson style showcase of all the products hema (a dutch supermarket chain) has to offer. as the page loads the products interact with each other and fall over the screen. nice design, not functional, but fun
Brendan McNulty 