Posts Tagged: Internet

Monetising Twitter Trending Topics

I don’t like or normally use the term “monetise”, but it is the big question hanging over Twitter; how are they gonna make money from this thing? We saw last week that Twitter have secured another found of funding described as “significant”, and so we assume that at some point these investors are going to… Continue Reading ›

Is SEO Bullshit? Discuss.

Sam Brown recently published an interesting post on the value and merit of SEO: Why I think SEO is bullshit – in which Sam says: For me, it’s all about my personal brand, Sam Brown is who I am and who I want to be known as. I do not want to be known as that… Continue Reading ›

The Matrix Has You

In the words of Neo, “whoa“. I can’t believe it’s been ten years since The Matrix was released. I can remember seeing the “What Is The Matrix?” teaser trailers and knowing from those that I had to see this film. But even the brilliant teasers and trailers couldn’t prepare me for just how cool this movie… Continue Reading ›

Search Engine Optimisation Prime

I recently decided to take this blog a little more seriously, and part of that has been to see where my visitors were coming from and to try to increase my visitor numbers through search engine optimisation or SEO. Google Analytics reports that 57% of the visitors to davidhughes.org arrived from a search engine: That’s… Continue Reading ›

Is Social Media the New Marketplace?

Earlier today, I mentioned on Twitter that I was going to sell my Samsung NC10 as I’ve bought a MacBook Air. I wasn’t really expecting a response, but within minutes, I had an email from somebody interested in it; a few emails later, the funds are in my PayPal account, and my Samsung is ready… Continue Reading ›

WordPress 2.7

A few days ago, I upgraded davidhughes.org to the newly released and latest version of WordPress 2.7. When I saw the first shots of the new dashboard and IA for WordPress 2.7, I was concerned that the changes were too great and perhaps not being done for the right reasons: change for change’s sake. But having… Continue Reading ›