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Design Agency Wisdom - How to Fail a Client Pitch in Three Minutes!

August 7th, 2008 · No Comments

I got a call from a web design agency yesterday. The lady on the other end was cold calling the company I am consulting to, and somehow got through to me.
Here is a summary of the interaction:
‘I’m calling from agency X’, she said, ‘and I was wondering if you were planning any web design [...]

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Tags: Internet · Marketing · New Media

IwantGreatCare.org - “rate your doctor” - will it go up in flames of libel?

July 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment

IwantGreatCare.org was launched in the UK as a service allowing patients to rate their doctors online. Patients can rate doctors out of 100 on “trust”, “listening” and recommended categories, and then leave comments about the doctors that they have rated.
Every time I consult to website owners about user generated content, one of the first [...]

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Tags: Internet · New Media · legal

How to Embed JavaScript into Wordpress Posts (The Easy Way)

July 18th, 2008 · No Comments

I’ve been embedding JavaScript into my WordPress posts the hard way for ages. It means creating a separate file to define a function (that is the JS script) and then calling it into the post itself, as explained by the WordPress guys here.
Then, today, I discovered that there is actually a very easy way [...]

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Tags: Internet

What do I do if I have a Virus? (Virus Removal and Virus Protection)

July 14th, 2008 · No Comments

What do I do if I have a Virus? (Virus Removal and Protection)
This article covers what to do if you have a virus, or suspect you have a virus on your computer.
THE CAUSE
You are usually vulnerable to a virus under the following conditions:
1. You have virus protection on your computer, but it is not [...]

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Tags: Internet · security

How Do I Embed Google Lively 3D Rooms into My Site or Facebook?

July 10th, 2008 · 1 Comment

UPDATE: Google Lively has announced that it is shutting down its service on 31 December 2008. More details here.
How to embed Google Lively 3d Rooms into your site or Facebook - I’m getting a lot of questions about this since I posted my article about the launch of Google Lively.
Embedding is really simple, so it [...]

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Tags: Community · Internet

Google Launches “LIVELY” - The Virtual World to Embed into Your Website

July 9th, 2008 · No Comments

Lively Google - Google Lively: Google launches Google Lively 3D Service.
Note: If you are looking for an article on how to embed Google Lively into your website go here.
Not a day passes without a new 3D world start-up launching, trying to cash in on the new 3d world fashion. The aim (apart from getting some [...]

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Tags: Internet

Top Quality Articles for Bloggers - Blog Carnival

July 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

Welcome to the 2008 Blog Carnival edition of top quality articles for bloggers. This an ongoing edition, and you may submit articles for consideration here.

Submissions so far:

Traffic2mypage presents Using OBP to increase web traffic - Part I - StumbleUpon posted at Traffic2mypage.com, saying, “This is a unique method i use on how to increase web [...]

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Tags: Internet

Firefox 3 - Download Now Available!

June 17th, 2008 · No Comments

You can now download the Firefox 3 beta!
The new version of the popular Firefox browser is available for download here.
According to the Firefox 3 release notes:
Firefox 3 is based on the Gecko 1.9 Web rendering platform, which has been under development for the past 34 months. Building on the previous release, Gecko 1.9 has more [...]

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Tags: Internet