Image via WikipediaJust over 4 years ago I was given access to the beta of SixApart's Vox blogging service. Today I got an email informing me that the service is being shutdown at the end of the month.No explanation has been forthcoming as to why they're closing down the service, though I'm sure there are plenty of plausible reasons why they're doing it.Related articles by … [Read more...] about SixApart Kills Off Vox
Politically Incorrect Tshirt of the Day
I spotted this while browsing ThinkGeek earlier:Nothing like a little bit of FourSquare humour on a Friday ! … [Read more...] about Politically Incorrect Tshirt of the Day
How NOT To Market Via Email – Golden Spiders 2010
I don't like lazy marketing. I've never given the Golden Spiders permission to email me or my business, yet again today they did. Annoying. However it's also quite amusing .. One of the emails landed in our helpdesk which stripped out ALL the HTML .. what was left over wasn't exactly um .. intelligible.. … [Read more...] about How NOT To Market Via Email – Golden Spiders 2010
Local Knowledge Is Key
If you're going to spend money registering domains in target countries and doing targetted pay per click campaigns you should also take the time to do some basic market research. And no, I don't mean pure figures - I mean cultural stuff.Jonathan Brazil spotted a really silly mistake this morning:If you go to the hassle of buying a .ie and sponsored Google links for Irish … [Read more...] about Local Knowledge Is Key
Dropping Sweetcron
I was using Sweetcron to publish a rather boring "life stream" over on one of my other personal domains. Unfortunately the script has been pretty much abandoned by developers, so no new features or updates have been made in well over a year. It also didn't have ANY caching options whatsoever, so it really wasn't a "gentle" script to run. I'm currently looking for a suitable … [Read more...] about Dropping Sweetcron