TechCrunch Giving WordPress 2.5 Thumbs Down?
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 Posted in Blogging, General, Webmaster Chat | No Comments »I was having a look at the technical blogging leviathan that is TechCrunch this evening and I thought I'd check out what their WP code looked like. A technical blog written primarily about Web 2.0 (does anyone still use that phrase??) ...
UK & Australian Wine Shops (Re)Launched
Thursday, May 15th, 2008 Posted in General, Online shopping, Webmaster Chat | No Comments »When we spent our year in Australia - until December 2007 - we ended our trip with a gentle enough spell living in the idyllic Adelaide Hills region which, as is only human, we really loved. During that time, we were ...
Holy Spam Surge - Webmasters Beware dfgsdfgfr@r45t !!
Friday, May 9th, 2008 Posted in Blogging, General, Google, Web Search (SEO), Webmaster Chat, wordpress | 4 Comments »We've been spammed. Hard. We're still trying to work out how and why it occurred, and how we can best mitigate the problems it has already thrown up, but our rudimentary investigation has demonstrated one thing which has wider implications ...
Fasthosts Dedicated Servers Down
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 Posted in Blogging, Webmaster Chat | No Comments »You may or may not have noticed that several of our other websites are not working at present. This is due to a Fasthosts Dedicated Server which we've been using to test our new channels before getting a much more ...
Phorm Announces Losses of £16.6 million and is Poised for BT Trial
Saturday, April 12th, 2008 Posted in Anti-Spyware Software, Consumer Protection, Internet Security, Politics, Webmaster Chat | 2 Comments »Following our recent opinion pieces on Phorm, it has come to our attention that on Thursday 10th April, the company posted losses of $32.8 million (£16.6 million) which the it insisted were part of planned investments in infrastructure, people and ...
Who’s Making the Internet Finer?
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 Posted in General, Google, Web Search (SEO), Webmaster Chat | 1 Comment »Just ask google - that's us, we are making the internet finer. Its official. Google knows. Do you?Share This
Microsoft Unveils Brain-Chip for Facebook Users
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 Posted in Apple Iphone, Current Affairs, Facebook, Webmaster Chat, What's New | 2 Comments »Microsoft has today unveiled ground-breaking technology that allows Facebook users to access their accounts, purely through the power of thought. The technology utilises advances in research used for the latest artificial limbs, which respond to electrical pulses emitted by the ...
The Things People Search
Friday, March 28th, 2008 Posted in General, Google, THAT's Funny!, Web Search (SEO), Webmaster Chat | No Comments »You know you've got a lot of diverse content within your network when you can look through pages and pages of the words people used to access some or all of your sites and find some real gems. Here is a ...
Phorm -Glorified Spyware
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 Posted in Anti-Spyware Software, Consumer Protection, Current Affairs, Internet Security, Webmaster Chat | 2 Comments »BT, Talk Talk and Virgin are all signed up to use Phorm -which reads the websites visited by customers and then targets adverts to them based on the content of those sites. The information which appears on your screen ...
New Look HotchSpot
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 Posted in Blogging, General, Google, News, Rob's Pulpit, Webmaster Chat | 1 Comment »The HotchSpot site has changed, and now sports a sleek new look. OK, so it is largely similar, simplified and contains more ads, but you know it looks better, right? Its also the first black site we've made in ages, though ...