How did the current digital revolution begin? Was it the computer scientists of ARPANET, MIT and Stanford University that should be cheered? Maybe. But what about all the thousands upon thousands of little people. Kids that started playing with computers, learning to program them, and then going on to be the next generation of computer...
Just discovered NHK World - http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/ Saw their logo on a Japanese Tsunami video that was being shown on the BBC News. Looks like a good source of news from Japan. News from the site: “Japan’s Meteorological Agency says the quake struck at 2:46 PM Friday local time, off the coast of Miyagi Prefecture. The...
For the first time in years Google have placed something other than the simple search box on their home page. “Tsunami Alert for New Zealand, the Philippines, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Hawaii, and others. Waves expected over the next few hours, caused by 8.9 earthquake in Japan.” If you have seen the many images...
Just seen this report of changes to Talk Talk; “Now that our brand has changed to TalkTalk Business, we have decided to simplify our group structure and are moving all our businesses into one legal entity. We will transfer your contract from Opal Connect Limited to TalkTalk Communications Limited (Co. Reg. No. 03849133) which...
After hearing on the BBC News channel that Waitrose spent £10 million smackeroonies (pounds sterling) on its new website, I decided to take a look then blog it. Then a friend said “what?” (or words to that effect) and I felt that I should make some attempt to verify this information, so I googled...
Today Waitrose has launched its new website. Costing £10 million pounds, we have to ask, what does it do? That is a lot of money, in developer hours it is like employing about 150 people full time for 1 year. So, lets look at the new Waitrose site. First, SEO. Good to see that...
I just had a very strange call from a company that first seemed to call itself Microsoft, but later spelt out their name to me as MICROTALK. I think this is them: microtalk.co.uk So funny. First, the line is so bad I can hardly understand the sales women. Sounded like she was calling from a...
Demand Media have been in the press a lot recently for two reasons: The “content farm” label that came about as a result of a Google annoucement and an SEO Expert assumption about eHow.com The fact that they are floating on the stock market. Well, as they have decided to float, their financials are...
Just getting a quote for health insurance on a popular UK health insurers site. There is an opt out box before the quote that says: We would like to contact you about this quote and keep you updated with our products and services, which we think may be of interest to you. If you...
About a month ago Linkedin.com invited me to try out their advertising network, LinkedIn DirectAds. They provided me with a $100 voucher to use, so I thought that I may as well give it a go. I was careful not to exceed the $100 on my account, so set up a campaign to cost...
Halfords.com is currently offline, and Halfords.co.uk is redirecting to Halfords.com. They forgot to renew their domain, and are now having to work hard with the domain registrar to get it back. How can you avoid losing your own domain? Several ways: Use a registrar that auto-renews domains Make sure auto-renew is switched on Make...
Update: Joseph Scott has provided some information in the comments below, and the problem is most likely on the blog server side, not with Akismet. Thanks Joseph for explaining that. Akismet is not struggling. Recently I have seen a lot of spam hit the moderation queue on my blog. At the same time there...
In short, forever. I often see people asking similar question to this on SEO forums. There is often then a lengthly debate about how long you should maintain a 301. I have no idea why people debate this topic, it is simple, a 301 is a permanent redirect, so should be left in place permanently. Today...
Today, 15th December 2010, marks the end of the life of the British airforce’s most innovative fighter jet, the Harrier “Jump Jet”. The Joint Force Harrier jet is 40 years old, and although now considered old technology, is still one of the best planes operating off air craft carriers. RAF Cottesmore has been home to...
There is a new techy word – Hacktivists. Hackers + Activists = Hacktivists. So, what are hacktivists and what do hacktivists actually do? Like activists, hactivists believe in taking immediate action against organisations that they disagree with. Rather than write letters to the Times, speak to the MP and moan about things in the pub,...
(in case you are wondering why there is such a big banner showing "Weboligist" here, let me explain - it is to prevent the image below appearing every time a page is shared on Facebook!).
