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Entries from January 2008

Hasbro and Mattel should Buy Scabulous

January 20th, 2008 · No Comments

Scrabulous is one of the most popular Facebook Apps out there, with a reported 594,924 daily players. Hasbro and Mattel are trying to get Scrabulous shutdown, claiming (quite possibly correctly) that it violates their copyright on the game as it is very closely based on the game Scrabble
This could be an extremely short sighted decision. [...]

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Tags: Facebook

The Power of Squidoo

January 17th, 2008 · No Comments

My wife and I are in the middle of major house renovations and we have found an amazing local builder here in Townsville. We were trying to figure out a way to show our appreciation, besides paying him, so I set-up a profile page for our Townsville builder over at Squidoo.
I only set-up the site [...]

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Tags: SEO

Free Multi-media Course on Blogging

January 11th, 2008 · No Comments

I’m evaluating a multi-media course on blogging from the folks at Simpleology. For a while, they’re letting you snag it for free if you post about it on your blog.
It covers:

The best blogging techniques.
How to get traffic to your blog.
How to turn your blog into money.

I’ll let you know what I think once I’ve [...]

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Tags: Blogging

What Countries Censor the Internet?

January 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

With news that Australia will now be censoring the Internet I had a look at what countries currently censor the Internet.
Here’s the current list of countries that censor the Internet:

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Tags: General