I got an email from Marlon Sanders the other day. I went to his sales page and he was broadcasting live on the internet using USTREAM.tv. He was so excited he could hardly contain himself. I didn’t buy his trainign program, but I did go create an account on ustream.tv to see how easy it […]
Archive | June, 2008
Visual Studio 2008 SP1
I’ve just installed and configured Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1. This is still in BETA but I was anxious to install and try it because of a bug fix that Microsoft were putting in after I logged a bug report with them in January. You can find that here if you want http://www.trstechnology.com/blog/asp.net/index.php/visual-studio-2008/ The […]
Creating Screen Capture Video with PIP in Camtasia 5
Just created another screen video using Camtasia 5. This is the latest version and its really cool. You can put in a picture in picture (I know you don’t want to see my ugly mug!), which might be useful in some situations. However, the filesize increases dramatically with PIP. See what you think…
Internet Marketing using Social Networks
I’ve just been reading an interesting article in Forbes magazine about YouTube. Apparently advertising rates for display ads on pages with user generated content has collapsed with rates on FaceBook, MySpace and YouTube having fallen 45% since Febuary this year… Forbes state the cost is now 18cents per 1000 page views… hmmm much cheaper than […]
Amazon Kindle – eReader eXtraordinaire
I’ve just finished reading the latest reviews and such about the new (Jan this year) Kindle eBook reader from Amazon. I buy nearly all my books from Amazon and have quite an extensive library now, shelves and shelves of hardback, paperback and manuals etc. In fact, I’ve been running out of room for all of […]
Search Engine Optimization Using rel=nofollow
Some time ago I was lucky enough to get hold of an ebook called Revenge Of The Mininet by Michael Campbell. In that book and associated tools and utilities provided by search engine optimization guru Leslie Rhode was detailed ideas and strategies about how to control the flow of PageRank through your website. I did […]
Are Google Search Results Changing?
You may have noticed that your search engine results placement have moved around a bit recently. I know mine have and so have some of my customers. Do we have to expect a larger ranking algorithm update? Will this change the ranking of your web pages in Google’s search results? Here’s an overview of what […]