Tag: blog
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Video search via rss
Yahoo! have posted a nice instruction set on their blog, detailing how to subscribe your copy of iTunes to video searches of interest so that you are constantly fed relevant updated video casts! Basically, to do it you simply use the RSS url generator to generate the RSS feed for your video search, add that…
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Flock fails to flabbergast!
I struggled for alliteration with that title, didn’t I? Flock is a new browser which was launched overnight – it is still in beta (isn’t everything these days? 1.0 versions are so 90’s!), and it is billed as a browser for Web 2.0! Michael Arrington from TechCrunch broke the story of the launch. I have…
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10 ways to improve your blog – Nielsen
Jakob Nielsen has written a top 10 suggestions for blog usability. The ten points Jakob are sensible and straightforward to implement, for the most part. His suggestions include: Including an author biography and photo Descriptive post titles Descriptive link text Links to older popular posts and so on. I have to put my hands up…
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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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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…