The web is undeservedly U.S. centric. I’ve been saying it for years. Even considering the United States is currently number 2 in the world in terms of internet users (234.4 million) it’s days are numbered, the balance of power will shift. If it were possible for the United Stated could get every man, woman and [...]
What A Week
February 8, 2010 By 2 Comments
I love weeks like this, where everything unexpectedly starts to come together. Sara and I have been plugging away at out pet project, humor site Daily Shite, for months now. We’ve been watching it grow slowly and celebrating as we’ve hit various milestones. We’ve watched with pride and more than a fair few glasses of [...]
Screwing Everything Into Place – Scrw.us
September 11, 2009 By 1 Comment
I mentioned our personal URL shortening service Scrw.us earlier this week when I was talking about how services like Bit.ly may fragment the web. Sharing all of our content and the stuff the we come across on the web through Scrw.us has given us some interesting insights into what people are likely to click on. [...]
How Tim Burton and WP Super Cache brought my sites to their knees
July 23, 2009 By 7 Comments
We felt like Alice tumbling down the rabbit hole last night. News broke that the the trailer for Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland had leaked onto the internet, Sara nabbed a copy, threw it up on Daily Shite and then all hell broke lose. I didn’t think much of it at first, but then the [...]
You only get out what you put in
June 26, 2008 By 5 Comments
If you want traffic from social networking sites (like Fuelmyblog)to be driven to your blog then you need to participate in the sites. Simply signing up, adding your site and then buggering off and ignoring the service will benefit you nothing and is quite simply a waste of time. A word of warning. If after [...]
Why the sudden resurgence of interest in Xeeber?
April 11, 2008 By 2 Comments
Am I missing something here. Back in August I wrote about Xeeber, a service which allowed you to see if users of the Yahoo Messenger client were online even though they had their status set to invisible. As far as I can tell the actual Xeeber (link does not work) service has been unavailable for [...]
Some things you may have missed
April 7, 2008 By 2 Comments
It’s been really busy around here this past week but things are moving forward at quite a pace as I settle into my new role for IBGS and get more involved with my work for Fuelmyblog (and our upcoming super secret project). I want to draw your attention to a great blog post by Sara [...]
O’Flaherty Episode #11 – Moo Moo
May 3, 2007 By 1 Comment
Moo Moo Another recorded Gizmo call with O’Flaherty regular Alec Palomo. Tonight we’re talking about driving traffic to our blogs and look at doing it using Google’s BlogSpot / Blogger without setting up a BlogSpot blog. Links Blogger.com Tucows.com Credit Podcast Theme: Derek K. Miller Alec Palomo Audacity Download Podcast MP3: O’Flaherty #11 16.2 mb 0:23:36 Visit [...]
Keyword fun
April 12, 2007 By 4 Comments
Studying which keyword combinations bring users to your site can provide you with valuable insight which you can leverage to better serve your audience. As I was looking through the keyword conversion rates for the past 14 days in Google Analytics, I thought it might be a good idea to look at some of the [...]
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