Well now I won’t be spending as much time doing that since I discovered iconzworld, a free icon resource web site. They put up new icon sets every couple of days and the quality is amazing.

Go to iconworld now to see the great range of free icons sets…

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Setting up your own system e.g. using something like PHPList is often tedious and  takes some technical knowledge to set up properly and working just right.

MailChimp, SurveyMonkey’s little brother (or sister, who knows?!), offers a Pay As You Go plan so that you can budget how much you spend on your email marketing campaign. The price plan goes from $15 for 500 credits to $2,500 for 500,000 credits.
This kind of plan is especially suitable for businesses that don’t have a periodic mail-out as credits can be rolled over and the there are no standing fees e.g. monthly charges.

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Most of these are from one site, the brilliantly named “ILoveJackDaniels” by UK web developer Dave Child:

1. Ruby on Rails Cheat Sheet
2. PHP Cheat Sheet
3. MySQL Cheat Sheet
4. CSS Cheat Sheet and more from the same site…
5. The Web Developers SEO Cheat Sheet by Danny Dover of SEOmoz.org 
6. Conversion table for em, px, pt & % in CSS by Suresh Jain

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Founded in 2000, Threadless is set to hit $5million is sales this year selling, wait for it, t-shirts! Yep, and they’ve never had a single design that hasn’t  sold out!

So how has Threadless managed to sell out every design? By asking their market what designs they’d buy! Simple!

Using a social network, Threadless runs design competitions and whichever designs are most popular make it onto a t-shirt. The t-shirts are then sold through the same social network to the very people who voted for the designs. This way Threadless supply the market with exactly what they demanded in the first place!

The power of social networking is only now becoming apparent and businesses are beginning to understand just how well ‘word-of-mouth’ marketing, the best and cheapest kind of marketing, works within the semi-porous walls of a social network.

Most think of social networks as the domain of bored teenagers but considering that Facebook, a social network that targets the 25 to 35 demographic, outpaced MySpace, a social network that does target teenagers, in May with the most number of unique visits many will need to re-assess their opinions of the importance of social networking to business.

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Joseph LeBlanc has a great article on his site making it very simple to understand the main differences…

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Most Internet users are aware of the usual information collected but here Danny Dover has put together an exhaustive list from how Google collects information to what it does with it;
If you’re incolved in Search Engine Optimization or even responsible for your organisations information security this is a post well worth reading.

Check it out here…

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With billions of web sites populating the Internet it’s really no wonder ICANN are doing this – I can’t remember the last time I registered the exact domain that I or a client wanted. Practically every good top level domain has been snapped up, a lot of these by cyber-squatterswho register a domain early on and sell it to the highest bidder.

The new rules will allow the registration of ‘anything’ as a TLD e.g. .ny for New York or .ldn for London. I could register .chandeshparekh as long as I had a good enough ‘business’ reason for doing so.

As the TechRadar.com article notes, it’s hard to know whether this will improve the Internet or hinder it; consider the number of yet to come ‘dead’ websites that will litter the Internet landscape as a result of the new rules.

Read more about this on the ICANN site…

Read the TechRadar.com article…

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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 Internet is adult supervision, however this doesn’t always happen since there are may parents who have very little experience of using the Internet and are not aware of how to keep their children away from the ‘dark alleys’.

This is where Childnet International steps in; Their web site is full of useful information for kids as well as parents and I highly recommend that anyone who has kids using the Internet check it out.

The Childnet International web site here…

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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.

Check out the Field Guide to Firefox 3 here…

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For those of you who may not know of it, Rails is a web development framework built using the programming language Ruby. The framework is popularly known as Ruby on Rails.

I’ve finally found some time, after almost a year of trying, to get into learning Rails. As a web developer and programmer it’s important for me to:

1. Keep up with the latest technology in web development to build my own projects and projects for clients;
2. And to keep up with the technology so I know what’s possible when I’m thinking of, or developing, a new Internet-based business.

Anyway, in my quest to learn Rails, I found the site www.buildingwebapps.com, created by Mike Slater and Christopher Haupt the founders of Collective Knowledge Works, Inc. a web development agency in the US.

If you’re learning Rails or are interested in learning Rails I highly recommend this site.

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Written so a lay-person can easily understand it, with some help from their webmasters, the online documentation consists of the following main sections to help you optimize your site for Google:

1. My site’s ranking in Google Search Results
2. How Google crawls my site
3. Creating a Google friendly site
4. Preventing content from appearing in Google search results
5. My mobile site in the Google  Index
6. Information for Public Sector webmasters

and more can be found here…

This is vital information if you want your site to be ranked as highly as possible in Google’s search engine results pages (serps).

Happy reading!

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Well, now you can!

urTurn.com offers a reward scheme where you earn points for posting pictures to Facebook (and MySpace soon too) and writing on friends’ walls. The points can be redeemed for gifts or sold for cash!

Check out how it works here and the urTurn web site also has a FAQ section here

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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 codes for 1,824 online stores!

To find a code for a particular store just search their database here and see what savings you can make when you’re shopping online!

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The UK’s Foreign & Commonwealth Office has launched a new service called Locate where Britons traveling abroad can register details of their trip as well as emergency contact numbers and this information is passed on to the local British Embassy or High Commission.

On the flip side, those Britons who don’t know whereabouts their loved ones are can also register on the site and the Foreign Office will get in touch when they have located them.

From the Locate home page:

Use our new LOCATE service to tell us where you’re travelling to so our embassy and crisis staff can provide better assistance in an emergency such as a tsunami or terrorist attack.

It only takes a few minutes to register your contact details and travel plans online and the local British embassy will know you’re coming. There’s no need to contact them directly.

Going on another trip? Simply, login and update your Locate account and we’ll let the next British embassy know.

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The story of Auctomatic, by founder Kulveer Taggar, has been serialized on the BBC web site since February 2007 and it makes for interesting reading. Kulveer lays out some sound advice for Internet entrepreneurs all of it based on his, and his company’s, experience.

From Auctomatic’s ‘about‘ page:

The Auctomatic mission is making selling online easy. We think it should be simple to take your stuff and list it on marketplaces like eBay, Amazon and Overstock. But it shouldn’t end there. Auctomatic does more than just let you list your items and manage your sales – it teaches how you can maximize your profits and to increase the success of your business. With Auctomatic you can be running your own successful online business in no time.

Read the BBC series of articles starting here…

and the latest article is here… where Kulveer announces the sale of Auctomatic for ‘many millions of dollars’.

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