Archive for the 'websites' Category
Inspiring Customer Confidence
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 8th Jan, 2008
Are you confident in what you are offering online? Do you believe you have the best service or product on the market? If so, you should be shouting your message out load, attracting people to your website and selling your wares. I came across a great sign of confidence on a sign I visited today. [...]
Research into social networks
Posted by: Owen on Sunday, 2nd Dec, 2007
Here’s something that I need to put on my reading list. (I have my Project Management exam next Thursday so won’t read it just yet). faberNovel Consulting has just issued a Research Paper on best practices from leading social network websites, which covers MySpace, FaceBook, LinkedIn and all the other usual suspects. Here’s some blurb [...]
PHP: Running ads on your site
Posted by: Owen on Sunday, 2nd Dec, 2007
I came across a PHP application today that lets you run adverts on your site. It’s extremely comprehensive, letting you sell space directly to advertisers and manage your advertising areas across multiple sites (and multiple users). It’s very much an AdBrite clone and lets you manage everything you may need. If you’re thinking of setting [...]
Thoughts on Google PageRank
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 15th Nov, 2007
There has been quite some debate in certain circles of the blogosphere with respect to what has been happening with Google’s PageRank (PR). Some websites have experienced a significant drop in PR, some claim that bloggers who make earnings through paid postings have been penalised, some even think that Google, as a monopolist, is censoring [...]
Looking for secretarial work?
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 14th Nov, 2007
I came across a site called SecretarialCareers.co.uk which is aimed at people seeking secretarial or PA jobs. It caught my eye because I was looking for an example of a site that is entirely based around one theme and this particular site looks really solid. Even first impressions indicate that the whole thing hangs together [...]
Facebook violates your data ..
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 30th Oct, 2007
… or does it? Just read an article in ValleyWag that points at a number of data privacy infractions that Facebook employees have allegedly taken part in. The infractions range from checking out a date’s details, seeing what profiles they have visited etc. The truth is, having that amount of data at your fingertips can [...]
Inkjet paper
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 29th Oct, 2007
Had an interesting Sunday yesterday, as I installed a kit on our inkjet printer to use continuous ink instead of having to buy expensive cartridges all the time. It took some fiddling around, but should be worth it, as Camille loves printing out photos of Arthur and well, I like looking at them so [...]
Buying tickets online
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 19th Oct, 2007
I recently went to watch Spamalot in London (yup, the Monthy Python musical) and it was really convenient to buy the tickets for the show online. I actually bought them off the show’s website as they proved to be cheaper than other alternatives, but I wouldn’t be averse to buying them off someone who couldn’t [...]
Involved in Work Connexions
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 19th Oct, 2007
I’ve been spending a lot of time talking to Leo recently and will be helping him in the near future to develop his ideas and direct the technology efforts behind his latest initiative: Work Connexions. It’s a great little idea, one that is sparked from a need in the market for business networking and online [...]
My Hosting Arrangements
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 4th Oct, 2007
I’m not sure whether I’ve blogged about this before, but I wanted to talk about the hosting facility my website is using. It’s on a reseller package on a company called ServerGrid and it comes with a host of facilities.
Obviously there’s the usual things, disk space, bandwidth, email and a lot of other facilities. They [...]
Spread your tentacles
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 26th Sep, 2007
Are you looking for marine related links? If so, check out Octopus.co.uk. It’s a directory dedicated to marine resources such as fishing, diving, boating and specialized marine travel services with particular emphasis on UK. I looks as if it’s built around phpLD which is a pretty comprehensive Link Directory and one I’d recommend to anyone.
The [...]
Regional Traffic and Parking
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 26th Sep, 2007
There are a number of mashup sites on the Web, but my favourite at the moment is RegionalTraffic.co.uk. It’s not that useful to me at the moment, as I’m based in the Isle of Man and we don’t really have congestion problems here, but I like what Regional Traffic have done with their website.
My favourite [...]
Chemistry Resource
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 26th Sep, 2007
Remember when you were at school studying Chemistry and you always needed to look up the periodic table? Well, as you can imagine nowadays you can find all that online. ChemiCool.com is a great resource for anyone studying Chemistry as it has a large number of resources available with all the information that you may [...]
Recycle your phone
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 25th Sep, 2007
Here’s a great initiative I came across on the Web. CellForCash.com is a website that lets your sell your old cell phone instead of throwing it away in the bin. It’s a U.S. based website (so only operates in the American market), but they seem to be much more stringent with their waste over [...]
Clusty - Metasearch engine
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 24th Sep, 2007
My friend Peter pointed me in the direction of a meta search engine called Clusty which has an interesting strength. It clusters results around a common theme to help you zoom down to help you narrow down exactly what you’re searching for. This clustering process helps whittle out the search results you’re not interested in [...]
