December 27, 2007
By Martyn in Buzz | 0 comments
If your website gets 100,000 unique visitors each day then someone somewhere will pay you something worthwhile for exposure to your community. So given that a secret to an online income is owning a community then how do you build one from scratch?
Is it Blogging?
It’s no secret that bloggers attract huge communities of readers. [...]
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December 20, 2007
By Martyn in Buzz | 0 comments
As a software developer and owner of IPR you might think I would not be happy if my code and ideas were stolen and used for profit. You’d be right.
But what if someone writes their own code that improves my original idea? Why should I have any claim over that?
Progress depends on people taking [...]
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December 15, 2007
By Martyn in Hosting | 0 comments
How did I find myself in this mess? My blog was only two weeks old and I could no longer post to it, not through lack of trying but dreaded MySQL and File Permission errors.
And I own the hosting company that hosts it!
Just like a customer I got in contact with support and had [...]
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December 6, 2007
By Martyn in Buzz, Investment | 0 comments
I thought Ublog was a late comer to blogging only “making it” because of it’s French origins which meant slower adoption of new ideas from the English speaking world. Well, A country that insists on calling a computer an “ordinateur” to emphasise Frenchness is bound to get stereotyped.
“So even though he’s French, his advice, [...]
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December 5, 2007
By Martyn in Social Media | 0 comments
Even after a recent surge of worldwide searches to 200 million a day Google lags behind SMS text messages according to 160characters.org the leading news agency promoting the SMS texting industry.
SMS is celebrating it’s 15th Birthday amid phenomenal growth that looks unlikely to slow down at all. It may not have been “Watson, come [...]
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