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Saturday, August 28th, 2010
The beginning of the end for Twitter
Over at TechCrunch, Paul Carr has written a piece entitled: Thnks Fr Th Mmrs: The Rise Of Microblogging, The Death Of Posterity.
I have always been convinced that Twitter has no future. For the following reasons:
Being text and link only is too restrictive
Easily replicated by any other mass communication service (ie Facebook updates)
It’s a fad - […]
Comments Off - Posted in Fail! by Rob
Monday, April 28th, 2008
Microsoft - Still Getting It Wrong
I have at times been very impressed with the efforts some Microsoft departments have made to be hip & cool. But in so many ways they are stil idiots!
Hotmail - bulk delete of spam, no “are you sure”
Microsoft Partner Program UK - unable to enrol using FireFox. No respect for the possibility that FireFox is […]
Comments Off - Posted in Big Business, Blog by Rob
Sunday, April 20th, 2008
eBay to ACCC - please let us have a payment monopoly
eBay has asked for special permission to have PayPal as the only means of paying for items on their site. A good discussion as to why this should not be allowed is at IT Wire.
Comments Off - Posted in Big Business by Rob
Saturday, April 12th, 2008
Network Solutions Get Greedy
Not happy with having a tidy little monopoly on aspects of the domain name business, they’ve now begun a very sneeky, dirty tactic. Basically, if you use NS for hosting, and someone visits a page on your site that doesn’t exist, they serve ads and keep the profits. Not only is this unethical, it can […]
Comments Off - Posted in Blog, Hosting & Domain Names by Rob
Sunday, February 24th, 2008
BRW Magazine - no good at math?
A subscription flyer dated 8 Feb 2008 lists numerous reasons why I should subscribe. One of those is the opening sentence, which says:
“…but for less than $5 a week, BRW really is your best investment.”
At the bottom of the page the price for a 50 issue subscription is $199, incl. GST.
$199 divided by 50 is…. […]
Comments Off - Posted in Blog, RANT by Rob
Saturday, February 9th, 2008
1 Million Aussie Domain Names!
Late last year was this announcement:
auDA, the .au Domain Administrator, today announced the 1 millionth .au domain name had been registered.
‘We are pleased to announce that the 1 millionth .au domain registration is elite-finance.com.au’ said Chris Disspain, auDA’s CEO. ‘We congratulate the Registrant of elite-finance.com.au for being part of this momentous occasion.’
And it is “under […]
Comments Off - Posted in Blog, Hosting & Domain Names by Rob
Sunday, February 3rd, 2008
31% of Australasians use FireFox!
How’s that for a feel good news item:
Almost one in three web users in the Oceania region – 31 per cent – were using Firefox, compared to 28 per cent in Europe and 21 per cent in the US, XiTi said.
And I’m guessing many people are like me, still use IE occasionally for when I […]
Comments Off - Posted in Blog, Newsworthy by Rob
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Bye Bye Scrabulous?
Knowing how addictive it could be, I have been putting off adding Scrabulous to my FaceBook. Good thing as well, because like many folk I had just assumed that they had the rights to make it. Turns out the 2 lads from India didn’t, and they’ve been making money from Hasbro’s product.
It has been claimed […]
Comments Off - Posted in Big Business, Newsworthy by Rob
Monday, January 7th, 2008
phpBB.com PageRank drops from 9 to 5
Yet another site has lost its lofty PageRank, and for good reason. phpBB is great (I use it), but the obligatory link from any installation of their forum is not a vote for their site. Yes, using their software could be seen as a vote for the quality and usefulness of the product - but […]
Comments Off - Posted in Blog, SEO by Rob
Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
How to buy links, and not get penalized!
SEM expert Andy Beal provides this list of tips:
Only buy links from sites that are highly relevant to your web site content.
If the site you are buying links from already has more than 5 paid links on the page, walk away.
If the site labels the links as “sponsored” or “paid links” or anything like […]
