This is a quick post regarding duplicate content and follows on from a discussion at web digitity forum. Here on the Venture Skills blog and a couple of our clients blogs we have been suffering from people scraping our content (taking the content and ripping it in full) The article is then republished with a link at the bottom pointing to our blog. Why is this a problem a links a link after all and it is getting the word out.
Friday round up: Skypecast, Drupal, Sitemaps
December 9, 2006 — Tim NashWhile not a new site we have joined the guys at http://www.webdigity.com/, which is perhaps the most friendly forum I have ever been to, check it out for webmaster based news. While on new sites we have joined have a look at ourmedia which will be adding our podcasts to and finally our myspace profile is up and running if you have a myspace profile become our friend!
Create a site like Digg – Part2
December 7, 2006 — Tim NashIn Part 1 we managed to make a very basic Digg clone with no programming in this part we will continue the no programming feel and add some more modules to our project, this is not an exhausted list by any means just an example of some additional modules. The next part of this series we will look at organising all your links again without code and themeing.
Travelling Light
December 7, 2006 — Tim NashDue to the nature of our business I spend most of my time travelling, blog entries are normally done, on trains, buses and in coffee shops (In this case its the Cambridge Arts Picture house). When meeting clients I tend to suggest places that I know offer free WiFi such as the Picture house in Cambridge I have a pretty extensive list suitable for everyone.
Hurry GMail Invites… …For a limited time only
December 7, 2006 — Tim NashGooglemail here in the UK GMail to the rest of the world has to be one of the longest beta products of all time. Soon it will come out of beta according to pundits however for the very few who haven’t got Gmail accounts and would like them I have 50 invites left on my accounts going today for free!
Want to create a site like Digg with no programming?
December 5, 2006 — Tim Nash
One of our clients wanted to create a social networking site similar to Digg, it will go live just after Christmas but in the process we have learnt a lot about Drupal and how sites like Digg work.
What’s Digg?
You may have been sitting under a rock for years and not no anything about Digg.
Digg is a user content driven site, users submit links to article and sites that interest them and other uses either give it the thumbs up or the thumbs down. The most popular sites get onto the front page and can have literally thousands of hits this is reffered to as the Digg effect.
Google who needs Google – The Tim Nash Experiment
December 5, 2006 — Tim NashYou may remember this post about Windows Live sucks…
Well I have changed my mind Windows Live is the most amazing search engine ever, everyone should use it why well simple really ? Read the rest of this entry »
[podcast]Skypecast Consulting was it worth it?
December 4, 2006 — Tim NashListen to our podcast about the skypecast here
You can also learn more about the podcast at ourmedia.org
Earlier today I did a 4 hour session on Skype helping people with IT problems it didn’t go as well as I hoped after an ok early start. The problems I had were
- users of a Skypecast automatically start as talkers, this meant we were constantly being plagued with people yelling hello as they entered every 2 minutes and by the end of the session I was suffering RSI from clicking mark as listener button. Read the rest of this entry »
Skypecast consulting!
December 4, 2006 — Tim Nash[Update]Its over and here is the result entry
Today we are doing an experiment online skypecast consulting, think of it as an informal chat with us at Venture Skills. The Skypecast is completely free and we will be happy to discuss any aspect of IT and new media but here are a few suggestions.
- Viral marketing
- Skype for business
- VOIP Solutions
- Web Development and in paticular Drupal
We will be there from 9 till 5 so enjoy!
p.s this post will update throughout the day with info as it happens
more info and to join the cast here
https://skypecasts.skype.com/skypecasts/skypecast/detailed.html?id_talk=81939
Friday round up: mobile search, Drupal and Identity crisis
December 1, 2006 — Tim NashThis week has seen the web return to order and everything become that bit more Drupal like so whats been happening…
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