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SimpleCDN – Being Killed By CDN Competitors (VPS.NET)?

Hosting has always been a little bit of a dog eat dog industry, but with CDNs it gets a little more complicated because you are paying for a specifc quantity of a specific resource… bandwidth.
But there are all kinds of ways to achieve your quota including various forms of arbitrage.
I read... more »

uQast In A Nutshell (Bonus Offer & How To Get It For Free)

So How Can You Get uQast For Free?
uQast For Free

Be patient – eventually a version will be launched with a reduced feature set. You won’t have a /yourname or /yourkeyword URL and someone may even be using yours if it is at all competitive – a bit like domain names
I don’t... more »

uQast – How Andy Beard Was Subverted

Just over a month ago I watched a preview presentation of a new “software as a service” application called uQast. Whilst watching the presentation I had a browser open and did a little digging around, found the development site and started poking to see what it offered.
I then dropped a... more »

My 3 Year Old Just Sent His First Tweet (Do You Think He Has Taste?)

First let me say, one of the best ways to get authority links is to help people, or be the first to notify people about a possible problem. Thus a big thanks to James at Online IT Guide for sending me an email to let me know of a potential hack of my Twitter account.Here is the evidenceThat is... more »

2800 Social Media Zombies Need Feeding On Friendfeed

A serious problem – I have 2800 “Zombies” that haven’t been fed for 11 days – they like eating my brains.. or the product of my brain, yet can’t get their daily dose.

This could turn into something of epidemic proportions and is not the first barren period they... more »

CAPTCHA Adverts As Part Of Your Sales Funnel & That Patent Thing

The website real estate around forms is both highly valuable and rarely used effectively.
But when I see the tech media oohing about a 3rd Party captcha service that uses ads, I feel I can add something to the discussion.
4 or 5 years ago one of the best though slighly naughty Adsense tricks was to... more »