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fav.or.it API - The future of comment distribution

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I have just announced the new API for fav.or.it over on the fav.or.it blog. As most of my readers are very technical I thought I would give you all the heads up on it as some of you may […]

7Jan2008 | admin | 3 comments | Continued

New Host Online

The move over has ‘in theory’ gone to plan, if anyone spots anything unusual then drop me a line. The new blog is running under Zend Platform so it will be interesting what performance we get and what bugs/warnings/errors/explosions that it also spots.

1Sep2007 | admin | 6 comments | Continued

Weekend away

Not sure I will get to post anything over the weekend as I am off to Bruge with wife and friends. It’s a great excuse to pick up vast amounts of Belgium fruit beer (yumm). I am traveling lite as I am meeting up the wife down in Kent so doing my best to do […]

13Apr2007 | admin | 0 comments | Continued

Cooking with apple

I have had my apple macbook for several months but just recently I have noticed that it’s been getting hotter underneath than is comfortable for it to just sit on my lap. A rather useful utility smcFanControl sorted the problem by allowing me to set a higher than default fan speed so during idle times […]

10Apr2007 | admin | 0 comments | Continued

What is this thing called Web 2.0?

In 2006 and 2007 similar amounts of hyperbole and cash are being lavished on innovative net start-ups playing around with Web 2.0 technology, the name given to the second coming of the web. But has anything changed or are we about to see another crash?read more | digg story

9Apr2007 | admin | 0 comments | Continued

Digg Traffic vs Google Traffic or “Stating the bleedin’ obvious”

I was just reading the Chitika blog after finding the article linked from Digg. It’s a short article showing that traffic from Digg is much less likely to click adverts than google. The relevant data being Google CTR is 0.97% vs Digg at 0.30% which although an interesting number it should not shock anyone. Google […]

9Apr2007 | admin | 3 comments | Continued