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T-Mobile's Twitter Blocking

If you don’t understand it, don’t allow it. That could be the thinking behind why mobile operator T-Mobile has begun blocking Twitter usage in the US, and opening up a customer service debacle, not to mention a public relations one.

Responding to Paid Link Post from Cutts

I have had a chance to deal with the odd email over the last 2 weeks whilst moving house, but I knew I should respond to this paid links post by Matt Cutts as soon as I was able to do so with some level of detail.

The Great Social Retailing Invention

Social networking is so popular online that it’s spilling into the physical world - at actual stores. Called social retailing, the concept debuted at the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) show last January 2007. Recently, the concept, by IconNicholson was selected by Time Magazine as One of the Best Inventions of 2007.

Dealing with Upset Customers

Anger is one of the less noble of human emotions. We tend to beat ourselves up when we get angry. After the emotion dies down, we feel a little foolish for losing control. As Ben Franklin said,

PubCon Pics - Day One

PubCon is great excuse to test out my new digital SLR camera. Here are a few photos from my Flickr account–there are 70+ photos in total from day one.

Google Checks Out Frequent Flyer Promo

Google continues its seasonally aggressive Checkout campaign, again offering discounts and special promotions in advance of Cyber Monday.

Browsing With iPhone Is Abject Faliure

"Even the iPhone’s browser can disappoint. It has a version of the Apple Safari browser that doesn’t support Flash, a programming language widely used on Web sites, so users are limited in what they can see on the Web.

"One Laptop Per Child" A Trendy Search Term

Due to its charitable goals, the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project deserves a thumbs up.  But due to higher-than-planned prices and mixed reactions from would-be recipients, I wasn’t sure that it would get - issues of “deserve” aside - much money.  Turns out it is, at least, receiving a lot of traffic.

An Internet Company with No Server

I’m sure this isn’t the only one, after all, SmugMug’s CEO told me that they had moved pretty much everything over to Amazon’s S3 a while back. But I always assumed that companies would have at least one server keeping things up, just in case Amazon went down. Or just because. I was wrong.

BlogWorld: SEO Tips For Bloggers

WebProNews is in Las Vegas this week at the BlogWorld and New Media Expo. In the session "Search Engine Optimization: Best Practices", the speakers focused on SEO tips for bloggers.