When I first started attending conferences I used to pickup a lot of marketing "tat" from the various vendors exhibiting. Over time you realise that you really don't need to have most of this junk in your life. I really don't need 20 backpacks, 15 water bottles, 500 pens or 100 notebooks. So these days if I do bother bringing back any of the "freebies' I restrict it to things … [Read more...] about A Very Practical Marketing Gizmo
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The .Irish Domain Is Now Available
Last Thursday afternoon, while the ICANN meeting was wrapping up in Buenos Aires, a historic moment was reached. At 5pm Irish time the .irish top level domain entered "general availability". In simpler words - from that moment onwards anyone, anywhere can now register a .irish domain name. This is cool. It's something that I've been looking forward to for several … [Read more...] about The .Irish Domain Is Now Available
Even When I Try To Escape From Work ..
This year I probably won't take a "proper" holiday. I'm more likely to take a few short "semi-holidays" either alone or with friends or family. The first one of these breaks was to Lisbon. And it was meant to be a holiday .. but could I escape work? Well not entirely: Yes, that's the .pt domain registry's offices in Lisbon. I stumbled upon it over the weekend. … [Read more...] about Even When I Try To Escape From Work ..
So Now We Have A Dragon
Bert - Year of the Dragon cloud hosting, a photo by blacknight on Flickr. James and I toss ideas back and forth about images and designs to use with blog posts, promotions, newsletters etc., Today's little invention is one of my favourites this year (ok the year is young, but hey !) There's probably a reason he's called "Bert", but even if there wasn't a good reason it's … [Read more...] about So Now We Have A Dragon
XXX Sunrise Now Live
James did a nice little graphic (or two) to help promote the launch of .xxx domains This one is pretty slick IMHO … [Read more...] about XXX Sunrise Now Live