Jul
31st
2011
Panning for traffic, predicting keywords for digital gold.
posted in: SEO
Panning for traffic, predicting keywords for digital gold.

The web has never been more exciting and filled with opportunity. I personally believe that we are living in a time that is the digital equivalent of the gold rush, with it never being a better time to establish a site, and build an online business that will continue to grow in value. Online adve...

Jul
29th
2011
Google+ Engineers take to the Waves.
posted in: Google
Google+ Engineers take to the Waves.

Working at Google must be an absolute drag. Some of the Google+ engineers and developers, who initially thought they were attending an internal meeting posted this footage today of a surprise beach party held at Mountain View, complete with their own boogie board / surf ready wave machine. Ironic? M...

Jul
25th
2011
Google Plus Public Lists – Plus-Lists.com
posted in: Google
Google Plus Public Lists – Plus-Lists.com

URL: http://www.plus-lists.com/ With Google circles being completely hidden from view, there is inherent value lost from the curation which happens during the everyday Google+ experience. As a bit of a fun coding project over the weekend, I decided to quickly hack together a solution for publ...

Jul
23rd
2011
7 awesome realtime feedback tools for instant design results.
posted in: Web Design
7 awesome realtime feedback tools for instant design results.

All too often gut instinct is used instead of the hard evidence from analytics software, and I've hinted before that webdesigners need to know their way around analytics packages to make the right decisions on their projects. With the burgeoning real time web, and rise and rise of social media, t...

Jul
21st
2011
Thoughts on building a quality website.
posted in: Website Promotion
Thoughts on building a quality website.

With the Panda update hitting many websites earlier this year, Google have been forced to be much more vocal about what constitutes a quality website. Back in May, they published these guidelines, which helped give us a glimpse into the thought processes at the Googleplex, and how quality is determi...

Jul
15th
2011
Google Badges award regular News hounds
posted in: Google
Google Badges award regular News hounds

Big fan of Google News? Do you use it regularly? Google have today announced that they are rolling out 'Badges' to reward users who read lots of articles on their site. The company is offering a variety of 500 different emblems, each one for a particular topic to its users. With five different l...

Jul
14th
2011
10 Awesome Chrome Extensions for Google+ Power Users
posted in: Google
10 Awesome Chrome Extensions for Google+ Power Users

Recently, there have been a wealth of new extensions cropping up for those of you using Google Chrome for your Google+ browsing experience. This collection of 10 of the best extensions  will add even more functionality to an already awesome service. Surplus for Google Plus URL: http://bit.l...

Jul
13th
2011
How to export Facebook and Twitter contacts to Google+
posted in: Google
How to export Facebook and Twitter contacts to Google+

Following on from my post on exporting photos from Facebook, many of you will already be familiar with the roadblocks Facebook have put in the way for Google+ users to import their contacts into the service. Not one, but two of the methods previously used to import your Facebook friends into the ser...

Jul
13th
2011
1990 called, and it wants its link requests back.
posted in: SEO
1990 called, and it wants its link requests back.

If you've been blogging for any length of time, you'll be familiar with the humble link request. A cleverly composed email by an SEO company, that offers you the outstanding opportunity to link to one of their clients, for free or even for financial gain.  Some of these requests even tout the poten...

Jul
12th
2011
NASA taking Android smart phones into Space.
posted in: Google
NASA taking Android smart phones into Space.

In a coop for Google, Nasa have just posted details on how they plan to take the Android phone into space on the International Space station. Current experiments with the device have seen the Nexus S act as an embedded computing platform and integrated sensor package since it has all the requ...

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