Category Archives: Work

I’m lucky enough to have a job that I love and it’s also a job that others are interested in. This section contains posts that directly relate to my work as a Director of a web development & online marketing firm.

Spoof Worldpay email

Received a nasty spoof mail today. Here’s the text:
Hello My name is Dave and I am from the Support of WorldPay. We have received the payment order (ID 0220712,Receipt Date 09/07/2006) from you and we need to make a verification of the details you have filled in, as we have received a notice from your [...]

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Looking at Myspace marketing

With over 70 million registered accounts at the time of writing, myspace is an internet phenomenon that is hard to ignore for those involved in online marketing.

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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

… and the lifeblood of intellectual property lawsuits.
I saw this post on Freelancer.com last night and wasn’t quite sure whether we should be flattered, indignant or just plain amused.
Here’s the salient part of the post:
I want a clone website of www.mypropertyforsale.co.uk with all the funtionallity that it has but with a worldwide search and the [...]

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Froogle Merchant Ratings

Just been looking at optimising some Froogle feeds and wondered which site were used to produce the Froogle merchant ratings. Oddly I can’t find much written about this on the web at the moment, so thought that I would pop a quick list of the ones that I have unearthed so far:

www.resellerratings.com
www.DealTime.co.uk
www.Shopzilla.co.uk
www.Ciao.co.uk
www.PriceGrabber.com

Sure that there are [...]

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Chocolates

As anyone who has ever seen me in profile will testify, I am not the kind of guy who shies away from a bit of chocolate, but this week I’ve had plenty thanks!
We’ve being doing some of the close-up photography for a new site that we are working on, ChocoholicShop. The photos are coming out [...]

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Google-guy Says

OK, I know that this is old hat, but the entry about the Matt Cutts Blog made me think of it again, and I thought it worth noting here.
Google-guy Says is simply a site that notes when a particular user posts on the Webmaster World and Search Engine Watch forums. Not all that interesting unless [...]

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C4 Caravans

If you know me then you’re probably wondering how I came to end up running a website about caravans, as it’s not something that I have a particular interest in.
The c4caravans.com was started a few years back as a demonstration of a free advertising system for a customer interested in running such a site for [...]

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Google insider blog

I’m not a huge fan of blogging, as the vast majority seem to have little new to say. Good ones though can be great.
I haven’t yet read enough of Matt Cutts’ blog to decide whether it will be one of the rare good ones or not yet, but at first glance it could be interesting. [...]

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