Playing with Scoutle
Posted by: Owen on Saturday, 10th May, 2008
I came across a really interesting website called Scoutle today. It’s an interesting social network facility for bloggers and websites which promises to link you up with other sites that are similar in interest and content. It uses a ranking algorithm to let your “scout” run around the web and be matched up with other [...]
Page Rank on the move - Currently Google has a Page Rank of 1
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 29th Apr, 2008
Looks like Google’s datacentres are in the middle of another Page Rank update. Google does this from time to time to update it’s published values for Page Rank used by third party services (for example the Google Toolbar) and every internet marketing company keeps a look out for that. Anyway, while the Google Dance is [...]
Where to go on holiday?
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 8th Apr, 2008
Well, that time of year is upon us. You know, the time where you realise you have a bunch of holidays saved up, but haven’t actually decided where you want to go. We were originally planning to go on a cruise this year, but yesterday were discussing how next year is our 10 year anniversary, [...]
Gadget Mecca
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 12th Feb, 2008
Have you noticed that I’m starting to blog more and more about gadgets? I was just scrolling down the page and it hit me seeing the number of devices on the page. It’s just that there are so many gadgets out there nowadays, I couldn’t resist. I almost ended up getting myself an iPod mini [...]
Make a sign .. any sign ..
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 18th Jan, 2008
Today is Arthur’s second birthday and we’re organising a kid’s party for him tomorrow. We were joking about talking how we should have a huge sign outside the venue advertising the party, and I came across a website that lets you do just that. It lets you design and customise a range of different yard [...]
Technical Evening
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 9th Jan, 2008
Wow, it’s been a pretty busy evening; I’ve been getting my hands dirty with a whole range of different things.
My Fonera arrived! It’s a great way to share your WiFi connection in a controlled fashion, so that you have control over what bandwidth you charge, who uses your connection and whether you want it to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Social Bookmarking goes green
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 14th Sep, 2007
Hot on the heels of the news that Yahoo has just acquired Buzztracker, I’ve just come across yet another social bookmarking site. However, this is one that does a good job of differentiating itself from the multitude of social bookmarking websites out there. If you could paint them all a different colour, well, this one [...]
Getting in touch with the fans
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 7th Aug, 2007
I love seeing how different niche sites have grown, adopted a particular segment of target customers on the web and elevated them to a new level. You can see this happening in a number of different industries: doctors, architects, even dog-walkers. It’s been a long time since the Web was just the domain of techies.
The [...]
The beauty of mashups
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 27th Jul, 2007
I was playing with Nestoria and was blown away by the smoothness of their application (you can’t really call it a website, as it’s so much more), and how well the integration with other third party sites works.
Let us say, you want to buy a home in Liverpool for example. The search results page includes [...]
Love FaceBook? What about your privacy?
Posted by: Owen on Sunday, 22nd Jul, 2007
My friend Legal Andrew has just put together a brilliant post after taking some time to study FaceBook’s Terms of Service. He maintains that your data on FaceBook isn’t private and also points out a number of terms that everyone should be aware of when contributing to their website.
For me however, I believe that living [...]
Plan your perfect trip
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 18th Jul, 2007
What do you get if you cross a travel site and a social networking site?RealTravel is the answer. It’s a travel site which encourages it’s viewers to submit blog entries about their travels, what they enjoyed and what they hated and their recommendations for other travelers. And the great thing about user-generated content is that [...]
