Archive for the 'web biz' Category

Tracking my time

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

Photo by Csaba_Bajko I’m not too bad with timetracking these days. I use Billable for invoicing and as long as I keep a vague eye on the time, and add the hours into Billable as they’re spent it’s not too much of a bind. Recently, though, I’ve started using a solution that seems obvious, but I’ve never […]

Open all hours

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

Trying to buy a Wifi connection card last night (or this morning, to be precise) I got a message from Telefonica’s online shop: “Store open between 12:00 and 07:00″! What, the shopkeeper needs some downtime? I’ll refrain from saying “bloody typical”. Oops, just did…

Question Box: one-key, no-screen internet

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

This is an interesting idea, that seems slightly mad at first, then starts to make perfect sense once you think about it. Then it seems really obvious. Then it makes me think about that fact that I already provide this service to family members! Cool.

Barcelona humour.

Wednesday, August 9th, 2006

Black humour, really. And I like black humour, but this is not that funny. I was having a quick peek at http://infojobs.net/ to see the lay of the land in the web/tech sector in Barcelona and it’s not a pretty sight: companies looking for experienced analyst/programmers and expecting to pay 900€ a month - that’s NET […]

msnbot

Tuesday, August 31st, 2004

It’s a bit like the annoying kid at school who everyone tells to push off, but they keep coming back just in case you want to talk to them. MSNbot, on seeing my “bugger off” in robots.txt, deserved thanks to its full-on approach to spidering that comes in somewhere between a DoS and a handy […]

Nokia - Loudeye tie-in

Tuesday, August 10th, 2004

Engadget: Nokia taps Loudeye for wireless music downloads

¿Hablas Espanol?

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2004

Search Engine Watch has an interesting article entitled Search Marketing & the Spanish Speaking Internet discussing the worldwide Spanish-speaking market and its potential value, focusing primarily on Latin America. It’s a little short if you don’t subscribe, but does manage to balance the positives with the realities of doing business in this as-yet largely untapped […]

How blatant?

Friday, May 28th, 2004

Check the copy on www.i-faker.com for possibly the most blatantly shameless sales pitch ever! Can’t deliver the traffic you promised or even charged your clients for? Our Fake traffic script can not only deliver the traffic you promised, but you can change the referring website to your own or ANY other site to make […]