Google are hiring….

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

Google take out a full page ad in Wired magazine Fancy a job at the googleplex? Google have posted a full page ad in the latest edition of Wired magazine which is a kind of catch all recruitment drive. Now lets run through the checklist - am I: A co-inventer with 19 patents - nope Knowledgea… read more

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Monthly meta-post for May

Monday, May 29th, 2006

Here's my round-up of the best of other peoples posts from the last month. This is all stuff from the web development and search communities that I've found useful, interesting or funny: Matt Cutts summary update on BigDaddy. Some interesting insight from Mr Cutts as to why Google's latest upg… read more

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Big thanks to Carl Seal…

Saturday, May 27th, 2006

My new layout went live today! A big thanks to twiggy for coming up with the "lanscape" theme for the corporate ID and for his much needed typographical input. Carl was responsible for designing the new Highly Visible masthead and the overall look and feel for the hi-vis branding. He's also helped … read more

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Backlinking, Googlebombing and Fuckwits…

Monday, May 15th, 2006

A colleague came into work this morning with a 'Google conundrum' for me - "How come when I search for the keyword fuckwit in Google, it comes back with John Prescotts homepage?". My colleague had scanned the entire page and "surprisingly" couldn't find the keyword anywhere, not in the page title, … read more

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Computerlove wins Waterstones account…

Wednesday, May 10th, 2006

I just heard that the guys over at Computerlove have won the account to do all Waterstones online branding and advertising for their new e-commerce website to be launched later this year. This is of interest to me for a number of reasons, mainly because I used to work for Computerlove and its goo… read more

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Google reader…

Tuesday, May 9th, 2006

Google personalised homepage just got better with the release of the Google reader module. Google reader is an rss feed aggregator which lets you view all the latest blog posts, articles or whatever from your favourite sites. If any site has an rss feed, you can add it to Google reader. The Pers… read more

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Is social feedback affecting your search ranking?

Thursday, May 4th, 2006

Can data you supply with your mouse clicks affect SERPS? I read an interesting concept recently by SEO/SEM guru Aaron Wall about how Search Engines could make use of (and may already be making use of) social feedback supplied by users as they click through certain search results within SERPS (Searc… read more

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John Martyn - Live at the Lowry 2006

Monday, May 1st, 2006

John Martyn played the Lowry Theatre (Salford, Manchester) last night and the big man is still on form. John Smith - Support Act Support act John Smith took to the stage first (see my seperate blog post on this guy) with his amazing acoustic guitar skills that are as mesmerising to watch as they a… read more

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John Smith - Live at the Lowry 2006