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The Black Art of Data Recovery
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 5th May, 2008
I came across a great post today that brought back so many memories. It’s a blog post on a data recovery blog that goes into detail about what the Master Boot Record on a hard disk looks like. It took me back to the days of messing around with Norton DiskEdit and finding out how [...]
FON raises $9.5 million
Posted by: Owen on Sunday, 13th Apr, 2008
Just read that FON has raised more money to help it grow. Here’s the press release:
Great news! We’ve raised another $9.5 million to grow the movement! We’ve got lots of great plans for the money. We’re going to Launch FON in Russia, launch the Fonera 2.0 (the fonera that uploads and downloads stuff to and [...]
EMC acquires Conchango for £42m
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 2nd Apr, 2008
Interesting news this morning for Conchango, the company I worked for before joining Solidsoft. They floated on AIM a couple of months ago and this morning the latest news is that EMC has made a bid to acquire Conchango at 23.1p per share, which is a 44% premium on the pre-announcement price. This values the [...]
Listening to your market - Zemanta rocks!
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 28th Mar, 2008
I had a brilliant consumer moment yesterday. I blogged about a FireFox plugin called Zemanta that sits in your browser and waits for you to work on a blog post. As soon as it spots you’re doing this, it springs into life and stars offering content suggestions; pictures, links etc relating to what you’re typing [...]
Online Gaming
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 6th Mar, 2008
The online gambling market is getting pretty busy of late. I must say that I do keep an eye on this particular sector, especially as it’s one of the growth directions that the Isle of Man is pursuing. It’s quite ironic really, because Malta (my home country) is making great inroads into the online gambling [...]
Optimising for the Long Tail
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 14th Feb, 2008
What is the Long Tail and why is it important for Search Engine Optimisation. Well, the term “Long Tail” was coined by Chris Anderson in Wired magazine and relates to the impact of focusing on niche strategies and how this is a viable competitive model. I came across a great post that applies this to [...]
Scrabulous vs Hasbro
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 25th Jan, 2008
It’s been a couple of years since I received my Cease and Desist order to take my ASP version of Magic 8 Ball off the web. It was a tiny app, but I was quite shocked that that Mattel’s stance is to kill anything similar to the product they hold the copyright for rather than [...]
No more Pandora
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 9th Jan, 2008
All the way back in 2005, I had written about a music streaming service called Pandora. It was a great website that let you create “stations” based on your musical preferences, and would come up with different bands in the same genre and style. Well, yesterday I got an email that Pandora was no longer [...]
Disappointed at Dell
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 20th Dec, 2007
Don’t you just hate it when a company offers you something and fails to deliver? Camille placed an order with Dell for a couple of laptops for her brothers who have been saving for months on end now. They spoke to a salesperson over the phone, worked through what they wanted and were promised delivery [...]
BWiredIn
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 4th Dec, 2007
BWiredIn. Now that’s a catchy name that carries the implication that you’re part of something greater. And that’s what the BWiredIn Network is trying to sell. Their catchphrase is that they are there to help you “Earn Money Through Internet Marketing“. What it’s really all about is a way to build up an affiliate marketing [...]
The Art of Seduction
Posted by: Owen on Sunday, 2nd Dec, 2007
One of the great things about the Internet is that it provides a window onto all sorts of activities that you may or may not come across in your normal day to day life. Case in point was a website I ended up on today. I was looking through some website relating to programmes that [...]
Happy Birthday DesignQuote.net
Posted by: Owen on Saturday, 1st Dec, 2007
Wow, I’ve just found out that DesignQuote.net has just celebrated it’s 1st birthday, and has been used to post over $3.5 million worth of jobs for their clients. If you haven’t come across them before, they provide a marketplace for web design jobs allowing companies to advertise their web work and companies, contractors and individuals [...]
Paid Search is a lot like Dating
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 30th Nov, 2007
Just came across an excellent post that compares Paid Search to Dating and draw some interesting conclusions. The analogy seems to work pretty well, putting forward some great advice like, including realising that listening (campaign monitoring) is important and usually many guys are after that one attractive girl (keyword competition). I particularly like the “meeting [...]
Facebook as a productivity tool
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 30th Oct, 2007
I came across a great post today, Deanna down at StrivePR was talking about how FaceBook has become part of her working life in her post: FaceBook as a sausage-on-a-stick. I’ll quote part of her post:
Whilst many companies may be blocking it or fawning about its use within their workplace, I am becoming increasingly [...]
I hope that’s just a codename
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 29th Oct, 2007
Just read on TechCruch that Google is preparing to rev up it’s social networking offering by preparing an API for developers to expand on Orkut, iGoogle and other applications of theirs. This will enable them to compete directly with FaceBook on an equal front. The codename of this project: Maka Maka. Sounds like something right [...]
