Category: Business blogging
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Tech Camp Ireland talk
Well the Tech Camp Ireland meet-up is over and it was a great day. Kudos to Piaras and Ed for organising it. Some of the interesting talks that I attended were given by Darren Barefoot on (un)marketing and Digital Rights Ireland on our lack of digital rights in Ireland (think mandatory 3 year data retention,…
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Tech Camp Ireland
Posting has been light the last day or two because i have been preparing my talk for tomorrow’s Tech Camp Ireland. I am moderating a discussion on Web Marketing and Blogging from 09:30 to 11:15 and then I am giving a talk entitled: Increasing traffic: How to Promote your blog / web business at 12:00.…
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New lame Adserving software
Mark Evans has written an article about a new Ad Serving company called AdGenta. It is supposed to deliver more relevant ads because you upload your blogs posts through a downloadable AdGenta application called Qumana (where do they come up with these names?). You compose the post in Qumana, click on the advertising button and…
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Bleak outlook for ping?
Matt reckons Verisign’s purchase of Weblogs.com means that the outlook for ping is poor: Verisign, which does not have a particularly good history in the blogosphere, has purchased Weblogs.com. This leaves Ping-O-Matic as the only large-scale and independent ping relay service left.
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Ads for regulars?
Dave wrote a thought-provoking post on online advertising and blogs following on from mine and Damien’s posts on the topic. Dave’s idea is not to display ads to regular visitors to your site: What I’d do personally is to have a cookie on my site so that repeat visitors didn’t get ads. People who click…
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Dot blog bubble
With all the mergers and acquisitions going on at the minute, it is only natural to wonder what the value of your site/blog is. I see Tom Murphy recently mentioned that Boards.ie was offered $750,000 for the site back in the original dot.com bubble but they turned it down. I wonder what it would be…