Internet News
Facebook Traffic Has Grown By 500% Last Six Months In UK
I’m glad that I’m not the only person in the UK who’s spending far too much time on Facebook. In the last six months Facebook traffic has grown by more than 500% in the UK,with over 10% of UK internet users visiting the site. This compares to 9% in the US.  According [...]
3Jul2007 | Everton | 11 comments | ContinuedTest Your Blogging Addiction
Daniel picked up on a nice tool that can test your blogging addiction by asking a few questions like how often do you blog, how many blogs do you post to etc.
At the end of the test you get a nice bit of code to add to your post to show the whole world just [...]
Something On Your Chest? Try MyBiggestComplaint.com
I love the concept behind MyBiggestComplaint.com. This site gives you a platform to let the world know about your biggest beefs. If other readers agree with your complaint then they can add to it by leaving comments, and also rate it with the most popular complaints bubbling up to the homepage.
My biggest complaint [...]
Google Finally Catches Up With John Chow Linkback Promotion
Well, it looks like John Chow has added Google to the list of companies he’s pushed too far with his experiments. John was running a linkback promotion where in return for sites linking to his site and including the anchor text ‘Make Money Online’ he would link to those sites. In total about [...]
30Jun2007 | Everton | 24 comments | ContinuedDefensio Anti-Spam Plugin - Anyone On The Beta?
Defensio is a new anti-spam plugin for WordPress that claims to be better than Akismet, which is the most commonly used anti-spam WordPress plugin. Given that I’m not a big fan of Akismet this doesn’t mean a lot to me, but I was wondering if anyone is part of the Defensio beta trial and [...]
29Jun2007 | Everton | 3 comments | ContinuedRIAA Harasses 10 Year Old Girl
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a good story about the Recording Industry Ass. Of America (RIAA). If ever there was a body in need of a public makeover, it’s the RIAA.
The latest story shows just how far the RIAA is prepared to go to convict individuals. In a case against Tanya Anderson, [...]
Women Bloggers Doing It For Themselves
Nothing really caught my eye in my feedreader that I wanted to, or had the energy to blog about so I decided to check out some of my readers’ sites. Angie’s been fairly active recently so I decided to check out her site first.
One post that Angie wrote that caught my eye [...]
More Adsense Customisation Options
The team at Google Adsense have been busy of late. Two months ago they updated the overall look and feel of Adsense units to make them look a lot fresher.
Now, they’ve just added some more Adsense customisation options, and publishers can now decide whether to have square, slightly rounded or very rounded corners.
Young Brits Would Rather Give Up Sex Than Their Mobile Phones
British people are known for being a bit weird, which is proven by a recent survey by Carphone Warehouse. In the survey, most respondents aged between 16 and 24 would rater give up alcohol, chocolate, sex, tea or coffer than live without their mobile phone for a month.
26Jun2007 | Everton | 10 comments | ContinuedBacklash Against Large Sites Using NoFollow Begining?
Even though it’s rare that I add new plugins these days, I still subscribe to the feed from WordPress Plugins DB. One plugin caught my eye yesterday, which appears to have been designed to counter big sites like Wikipedia not giving link love.
The WordPress Blog SEO plugin automatically adds the ‘nofollow’ tag to [...]

