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What Happened To Grooveshark? Grooveshark, my favourite desktop PC music sharing service (I did not like the mobile version so much) has closed down. I just typed in the URL …
Farewell Grooveshark – You Were The Best! Read More
This was buzzed by Google’s Matt Cutt’s in response to suggestions that Google had only managed to gather the email addresses by using some sort of underhand, insider methods. But …
Major Facebook Security Hole Revealed Read MoreRadio Caroline was the first and most famous of the UK’s pirate radio stations. It started transmissions in 1964, on Easter Sunday, from a ship anchored in international waters off …
Radio Caroline Online is 10 Years Old Read MoreGoogle has just released a new version of Adsense that gives publishers more information on their advertising revenue. It is faster and more user friendly than the old system, with …
Google Updates Adsense – New AdSense Beta Read MoreAs the global banking sector undergoes much change in response to the credit crunch, there have been some interesting new developments, with tech companies acting as lenders to smaller technology …
PayPal Finds Partnerships with Established Banks Read MoreToday a major UK retail chain has lost all internet visibility. All of DSG International’s online stores are currently off-line! The websites for Dixons, Currys and PC World have all …
Dixons, Currys and PC World Websits are all Down! Read MoreFunny news on Test Match Special just now. Aggers interviewed a woman from Massachusetts who has the Twitter name @theashes. She knew nothing about cricket, but her boyfriend picked the name for …
The Importance of a Good Twitter Name Read MoreTweet I have now been messing about on the Internet for about 3 1/2 years. I have over 30 domains under my belt now. This sounds like a success. It …
Why Outsourcing Link Building is Mostly a Waste of Money Read MoreDecided today to start culling my Twitter follow list. I seem to be following a lot of people that never say anything. On closer inspection many of them stopped tweeting …
Having a Twitter Cull Read MoreGoogle Penguin 4.0 is now an official part of Google’s Core Algorithm. The announcement that Penguin now runs in real time within the core search algorithm means that the latest …
Goodbye Penguin Updates Read MoreAfter importing my Blogger blog into WordPress, I had hundreds of categories (converted from Blogger labels) and very few tags. This was obviously not right. So I thought that I …
WordPress Just gets better! Converting Categories to Tags Read MoreThis is a real virus If you use Facebook you are probably very used to sort of hoax virus alerts. I am still not sure what the point of them …
Virus Alert of the Day – Postcard from Hallmark Read MoreI used to read Dilbert everyday in my youth, before I went to University. My mum used to send the newspaper clippings to me at Uni each week. The other …
Dogbert the CEO Starts an Internet Business Read MoreEarlier this year Google rolled out one of its last major updates that are designed to combat web-spam. We had Panda, fighting the low quality content, then Penguin, tackling link …
Google’s EMD Update May Be Costly For Small Internet Businesses Read MoreTweet It’s Friday, so time for some more lighthearted web based sillyness. I got some amusing old fashioned spam today. Someone wanted to be my friend on Facebook. Aaah, isn’t …
How To Spot A Facebook Marketing Spammer Read MoreAngry spammer Today somebody left a comment on a website I manage. The page they left the comment on was reviewing a new service in the industry that launched in …
The Seedy and Desperate World of Comment Spam Read MoreSeveral months ago we reported how two individuals had built a Scrabble application for Facebook, and then were under pressure from the board game manufacturers to remove it. It appeared …
Scrabulous is no longer on Facebook Read MoreTweet Google’s SEO Eric Schmidt is resigning from Apple’s board of directors. The reason is the increasing rivalry between the two companies, and the issue that two of the biggest …
Google Chief Eric Schmidt Quits Apple Board Read MoreTweet What a title! OK, for some reason I just decided that I did not want the old date structure for the site. It seemed a bit pointless. So in …
How I Changed WordPress Permalinks and Redirected Links and Updated Internal Links in Less than 15 Minutes Read MoreSEO Novice – 57% I just took the SEOMoz SEO quiz, and scored 57% which means that I am still an SEO Novice. Here are my results: #1 Which of …
Still an SEO Novice – SEO Score of 57% Read MoreSometimes the easiest way to make a quick and dramatic change to a website is to change the font. There are several popular font families that work well together to …
Web HTML Font Families Read MoreToday the BBC has reported that the European Commission has launched an investigation into Google after other search engines complained that the firm had abused its dominant position. The issue …
Antitrust Probe Launched Against Google Regarding Abuse of Power Read MoreI have had this problem for a few weeks now. No idea what has caused it. Searching on Google reveals tens of thousands of results, which suggests that I am …
Keep Losing Internet Connection on Vista Home Read MoreTweet A little trick if you want to remove all posts from a blog of a particular category and transfer them to another blog. Create a new User, for example …
How To Transfer a Whole WordPress Category to a New Blog Read More