What is a personal brand? It’s the process by which you market yourself to others, whether you’re looking for a job or establishing yourself as an expert in your field or even just posting tweets on Twitter. It’s what you’re seen to wear in online photos, what your ‘voice’ on the Internet sounds like, what [...]

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More and more websites are using WordPress as their back-end Content Management System due to its ease of use and excellent built-in search-engine-optimization. However, as with all software, WordPress does have bugs that are exploited to wreak havoc on your site. This blog article talks about upgrading your WordPress installation to ensure the latest security [...]

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ZDnet.com reports on some Facebook apps that steal login details and spam victims’ friends lists. Some of the Facebook apps mentioned in the report are: Stream Posts Your Photos Birthday Invitations As always, when using social networking sites watch out what apps you use and ask yourself if you absolutely have to use every app [...]

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I went on a bit of a Cheat Sheet binge this month. Working on a couple of projects using various technologies means I keep bouncing around looking for stuff so I thought I’d better get some cheat sheets up on my wall to save me time. Most of these are from one site, the brilliantly [...]

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Last month’s Inc. magazine featured clothing company Threadless on the front cover, a company founded by 2 college drop-outs (an interesting trend in itself – so many successful start-ups have college drop-outs at the helm) Jake Nickell and Jeffrey Kalmikoff. Founded in 2000, Threadless is set to hit $5million is sales this year selling, wait [...]

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Childnet International is a non-profit organization whose main objective is to keep children safe when using the Internet. The open-ness and accessibility of the Internet by anyone from anywhere unfortunately means the Internet has become the hunting ground for those who prey on children. One way in which children can be protected when using the [...]

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With the credit crunch truly making itself felt, retailers should be pulling out all the stops to get eyeballs on their products and making sales. Gartner research found that UK retailers are missing a trick by not using Social Networking as a marketing tool. With social networks like Facebook, MySpace and Bebo getting so much [...]

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As I mentioned in an earlier post Firefox 3 has been released with many an improvement. With more than 15,000 (yes, you read that right!) improvements over the venerable Firefox v2, the good people at the Mozilla foundation have put together a field guide to bring us fans even more joy from using Firefox 3. [...]

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Yep, Firefox 3 is here! The latest incarnation of the web browser sports many new and improved features; in true community spirit Mozilla have heard their customers and acted to create the most advanced web browser to date. All this excitement may seem a little silly but after years of using the backward and cumbersome [...]

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It goes without saying that at the present time the most influential search engine on the web is Google and keeping that in mind there is some very important documentation the boffins at Google have created that every web-site owner should read and be aware of when having their web sites designed and built. Written [...]

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When shopping online, you’ll have noticed most if not all shopping carts have a “enter coupon code here” section before you checkout. Many online retailers give out, for promotional reasons or otherwise, discount coupon codes to be used in just that spot. currentcodes.com is a service that researches and maintains a database of discount coupon [...]

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SEOmoz, a Search Engine Optimization specialist offers SEO tips and guidance through their web site at www.seomoz.org. They’ve also just released the results of their Web 2.0 Awards competition, the results of which can be found here. What’s interesting and very useful for web entrepreneurs is that there are a lot of categories covered, each [...]

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What version to use for a Joomla project is a question that requires some thought, primarily regarding the functionality you want your Joomla site to have. Joomla 1.0x has been around since about April 2004, with the latest version 1.015 released on 22nd February 2008, and because of this it has a large number of [...]

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There may be times that you’d like to drive massive traffic to your web site e.g. maybe your recent visitor statistics haven’t been as high as you’d like or you do see an opportunity to create some content for your site or blog that you know many readers will be interested in. I’m always on [...]

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Why Startups Fail is a blog post by David Feinleib at a venture capital company, one he wrote in response to an entrepreneur asking him “why do startups fail?” The post makes for great reading but even better and more insightful is the response by Jason Fried of 37 Signals, a highly successful startup turning [...]

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