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As the saying goes “information is power”, but that power is useless if you don’t know what to do with it.  Such is the case with the Google keyword tool, that provides you with a decent way to help optimise and target traffic from the search engine at your site.
Is it the answer we have [...]

A while ago I wrote an article giving advice to writers and authors about marketing themselves online.  As part of that article I mentioned in a couple of paragraphs about reaching out to you audience. In this post I am going to expand a little more on the topic and talk about tapping into the [...]

Having recently been asked to do a mail out for the best part of 11,000 emails, I thought that I would take a moment to do a write up and explain what I think are some of the important points and considerations in maintaining and operating large emailing lists.  These are of course, legitimate, opt-in [...]

I woke up this morning to an email from the comments moderator on Tech Talk Point. On closer inspection I had to laugh. As expect it was spam, no surprise there, but the comment itself was: “Some things never seem to change.” And how right they were. God forbid a day go by without [...]

The sweet and short answer to your question is no, but of course the reality is more of a grey area. To lengthen the answer a little, there is no easy and sure fire way to find out the origin of a gmail sent email, but there are some means, and of course always the [...]

One of the great features of last.fm user pages and widgets are the album and artist image quilts that they use in flash on the site and in embeddables. If you are anything like me, you will have thought how great it would be to be able to take such image quilts and actually place [...]

Sometimes you may feel like the fountain of ideas has dried up and although necessity is the mother invention, said phrase may well not ring quite true. So How do you keep ideas fresh and in line with what people want? How do you even go about finding ideas to form posts from?

Hype Machine seems to have joined the political fray today by coming out in Support of McCain and Palin, or have they? It’s kinda tricky to tell, but one thing is for sure, pictures of John McCain are all over the site as default user images.
To be honest it is pretty off putting and doesn’t [...]

Even the mighty CBS corp isn’t resilient to the adverse monkey behaviour of naughty social media subverts. User-generated content is all and well, and the internet’s cheap means of production, much like reality shows are for tv, but if you don’t maintain such content properly, it can easily and quickly come back to bite you in the arse, much like CBS has found out on the project, CBSmobileeye.com.

Just released into beta, "Listen" a new app for the iPhone allows you to recognize the music you hear. It is very early days and the team of 1, Erica Sadun (of TUAW fame), is running a beta, but it is a great new addition to the music armoury of your iPhone.
When combined with an [...]

Yesterday, having posted an article to MacSurfer last weekend, I came across an opinion snippet on a web site. The web site was in fact, injoydesign.com, a site that purportedly puts “joy into design”, the problem was, it wasn’t giving me much joy, the reason being that the snippet of the site I was looking [...]

Last.fm, rather kindly, provides a plethora of web service and data access formats for developers online. Via the audioscrobbler.net web site you can request data for user profiles, artists, albums, tracks, tags, groups, forums and countries in a variety of formats including, plain text, rss, xml, xpsf and iCal, where relevant.
In this article we take [...]

So maybe you have heard the buzz and seen the goods, and if you are still wondering, i mean Apple's new iTMS related widgets. This article highlights a few of the points as to why I think that the new Apple widgets for iTunes, for embedding on your web site, blog or social networking profile [...]

Developed and released over the last few days, MobileScrobbler is the first AudioScrobbler / Last.FM client that brings decent scrobbling capabilities to the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch.
For those you not offay with the way in which Last.FM works, basically, whilst listening to your favourite songs in iTunes, [...]

With so many domain name registration firms popping up left, right and centre, and with many providing at least semi-decent interfaces for updating the domain details yourself, it is extremely cheap and easy to set up a domain and then setup a dotmac account for your web site, whilst at the same time using your [...]

It seems like for years people have been asking for custom field availability within the calendar module in Expression Engine. Somehow the feature still languishes on the request list.
Here's a quick and dirty guide on how to implement the "Mr Wilson" hack for adding custom field data into your weblog calendar [...]