Tag: Technology

  • Win an Acer pocket PC with Roam4free

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    As I posted earlier, Pat Phelan has launched his new Roam4free product. He is now looking for feedback and is offering to give an Acer Pocket PC to the “most helpful review”. Pat entered me into the competition because of the feedback I gave in my previous post – thanks Pat. Can you beat my…

  • WordPress 2.1 released

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    WordPress 2.1 has been released. The major features according to the WordPress.org site are: * Autosave makes sure you never lose a post again. * Our new tabbed editor allows you to switch between WYSIWYG and code editing instantly while writing a post. * The lossless XML import and export makes it easy for you…

  • WordPress 2.1 due out later today

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    The next version of WordPress – version 2.1 is to be released later today and Aaron Brazell has a good post outlining 10 features of WordPress 2.1 you should be aware of. One that I love is the AutoSave feature. I have lost several posts during writing which I wouldn’t have lost if I had…

  • Just to clarify

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    I have heard it back that the reason for my recent posts about Blacknight is nothing to do with my poor customer service experience but rather because I am trying to bully Blacknight into becoming a customer of CIX!!! In case anyone else has heard this ridiculous rumour and has put any stock in it…

  • Hosting 365 and customer service

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    I haven’t written about Hosting365‘s customer service before now as I have no direct experience of it. I don’t host with Hosting365. However their reputation for customer service has been far from stellar. Almost as bad as Irish Broadband’s, I’m told. Recently appointed marketing director of Hosting365, Ed Byrne is determined to change that. In…

  • Cluetrain quotes – 2

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    Continuing my quotes from the Cluetrain Manifesto, here is another quote which I love from the 95 Theses: 12. There are no secrets. The networked market knows more than companies do about their own products. And whether the news is good or bad, they tell everyone.

  • Blogs increase newspaper traffic online

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    Reuters is reporting today that the number of people reading the blogs of newspapers in the US tripled in the last year. The study of online habits carried out by Neilsen went on to show that: Unique visitors to blog sites affiliated with the largest Internet newspapers rose to 3.8 million in December 2006 from…

  • Cluetrain quotes – 1

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    I finally read the Cluetrain Manifesto over the Christmas break. I had dipped in and out of the online version but I treated myself to a paperback copy and read it while offline in Spain. All these things are so much easier for me to digest in dead tree format! Getting old, I know. Anyhoo,…