Archive for June, 2005


How to get your SITE syndicated

By Kalena Jordan and Dan Thies
3 December 2002
[Kalena] Following our successful experiment of setting up a news feed for my site, search engine marketer Dan Thies and I have joined forces to write this article to show other webmasters how they can do the same for their own sites.
But before we [...]

Skype Goes Retail

Skype Goes Retail
Skype just signed an agreement with Brightpoint, to sell and promote Skype products via the retail channel. Incase you did not know, Brightpoint is a cellular wholesaler. This is a major move, which pits Skype against Vonage. (We said so!) Secondly, I believe this is clear indication that the viral marketing campaign is [...]

Entropy � Get Your Keyword To Spot #1

Entropy � Get Your Keyword To Spot #1
Get Your Keyword To Spot #1
fx wrote this in the wee hours:
I was recently tasked with a rather trivial task of getting an organisations name to result #1 on the big 3 - Google, MSN, and Yahoo. Naturally I said it would take a max of about a [...]

Engadget - www.engadget.com

Engadget - www.engadget.com
Busboy pulls a Paris Hilton on Jimmy Buffett >
Related entries: Cellphones
sony ericsson
So the meat of this story is that some busboy lifted Jimmy Buffett%u2019s cellphone when he left it on the table at a restaurant, and basically proceeded to hold it hostage while rifling through his contacts. Looks like ol%u2019 Jim%u2019s been hangin%u2019 [...]

Photo Matt � This is Real Broadband

Photo Matt � This is Real Broadband
Really fat bandwidth graph
Care of VVD Communications, the cool company with a bad website, I now have a synchronous 10mbps connection in my apartment. The first thing I did was go to a bandwidth testing site, as seen above. I was using Comcast before which was pretty snappy, but [...]

Engadget - www.engadget.com

Engadget - www.engadget.com
Maxtor pumps it up with 500GB drive >
Related entries: Peripherals
LaCie Bigger Disk d2 Extreme
It%u2019s not a nano-cluster pocket drive, but we%u2019ll still take it: Maxtor has joined the short-but-growing list of companies producing half-terabyte drives. Maxtor expects to ship its 7200RPM 500GB drive this quarter, joining LaCie, Seagate and Hitachi, all of which [...]

Skype adds icons

Check out the new Skype icons

Getting More Traffic To Your Blog

Getting More Traffic is a well written article by 5 star SEOchat writer Wayne Hurlbert.

“Still waiting to see your visitor traffic to your business blog increase? There are a number of things you can do to help it along, from getting your blog listed in online blog directories to old-fashioned offline networking. Wayne Hurlbert [...]

Help Google Index Your Blog

WP SiteMap Generator is a tool for WordPress users to create a sitemap for google’s new sitemap feature thats getting great reviews. Its always good to have a sitemap :)
Addition: Sidney has just informed me of this : remixed version with more features!

ADSL Broadband Internet Access price drop!

Facing increasing competition from iBurst and other broadband wireless internet access technologies, fixed line operator, Telkom, has reduced ADSL line prices.
Line prices will drop on the 1st of August by up to 30%.
Business 512k - R477incVAT/month (from R699)
Home 512k - R477incVAT/month (from R599)
Home 384k - R359incVAT/month (from R469)
Home 192k - R270incVAT/month (from R349)
Permanent Internet [...]