I’m glad to see that Irish users have started to latch onto the idea of text link ads. To be honest they are fairly cool. I have made about $54 so far from them. It’s like money for nothing. Payments have been made every month on time via Paypal. So what’s a link on my [...]
Thanks to everyone for their suggestions. I have picked a hotel that was recommended by one of the readers. It was a hard decision to make. I was torn between the Silversprings Hotel suggested by Donncha and the Oriel Hotel Cork suggested by frankp. In the end the Oriel won me over. The hotel is [...]
Build your empire to last At the moment search engines seem to be ranking sites fairly well that have pages with relevant inbound links. This is not the only factor involved to rank well, however it seem to have a lot of weight behind it. The search engines have also got smatter about identifying people [...]
I have a trip to cork planned in the next month or so. I am looking for a Hotel or Accommodation in cork. Here is the deal: If you find and select a hotel that I will like, that meets all the conditions below, you will win the top prize of €10. Winners will be [...]
Lee Dodd, owner of Sprint Users and other large forums has agreed to be on the show this week. Lee has mastered the art of making money online and is currently working on a book about it scheduled to be released later this year. Pop over to Shoemoney’s blog for more info.
Brick and mortar e-commerce has stumbled over from the USA and landed in Ireland. “iSoldit� seems to be a fairly unique idea, its essentially an eBay power seller who sell item on your behalf. iSoldIt offers a walk in centre or shop where you can bring in items that you would like to sell on [...]
A new firefox plugin called Google Browser Sync was announced by google. The plugin allows users to synchronise browser settings including bookmarks, history, cookies and saved passwords. Google has also provided a detailed FAQ for Browser Sync.
I was having a look at my Apache log files today when I stumbled upon this snippet from Msnbot. It seems like the Msn bot was looking for something Google related. The site in question runs both Adsense, Analytics and has a Google sitemaps. GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.0 GET /misc/google/planting.gif HTTP/1.0 GET /misc/google/rakegirl.gif HTTP/1.0 GET /misc/xml.png [...]
Keep It Local The one major problem that I have seen with a lot of Irish companies and websites is that they are hosting their website outside of Ireland. Why would this be a problem? Most of the modern search engines over the last few years have implemented geo targeted results. Geo targeted means that [...]
It seems “Someone” is now sending in the lawyers on a “pending” trademark for the term “Web 2.0â€? see: O’Reilly trademarks “Web 2.0″ and sets lawyers on IT@Cork! IT@Cork is a not-for-profit networking organisation for IT professionals. IT@Cork organises regular information and networking events which are free for its members. One of these events – [...]
Jason is a strong advocate of blogging and coworking. He quite active in the Irish tech / social / startup community and is involved in organising social meetups and events.
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