I’ve been working with a couple of friends to build a fan site for the HBO show, Boardwalk Empire. I’ve used Drupal as a platform for the first time and whilst I’ve had a few issues it’s been relatively pain free and quick to set up. There’s still a long way to go before the [...]
Read more →Online marketing can be a frustrating business. It’s difficult for big companies to be passionate enough about their product to actually sell it well. When you find a site that really does and you know it’s got a big future. I was talking trainers the other day and was recommended Crooked Tongues. I’ve spent a [...]
Read more →Google yesterday launched its new social offering, Buzz. How many social sites now share the same name? Surely they can’t all be happy? Unlikely…. First off, Yahoo! named one of the social features Yahoo! Buzz 18 months ago. Yahoo Buzz is a Digg clone where users can vote for articles. It also feeds into Yahoo! [...]
Read more →OK, the title is a little dramatic but I stick by the sentiment. Google made changes to its search results today that are biased towards American sites in the UK results pages. I’m no Google hater, in fact I’m a keen user and despite knowing that their results are little, if any, better (and sometimes [...]
Read more →A while back I wrote about a bizarre result that I was seeing for the term “hibs” on Google UK and .com (It also appears for terms like “hibernian fc edinburgh”!!!). It sorted itself out fairly quickly afterwards but I noticed today it has returned to the top spot for this search and various other [...]
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