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All posts from 2006 to present.

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Apr 01 — Why Most Companies Get Conversion Wrong
Mar 24 — Mapping Every Time Team Dig: An AI Collaboration

2014 (2 posts)

Dec 26 — Making good on a (small) promise and hopes for 2015
Feb 14 — Openness and, by extension, understanding

2012 (1 posts)

Sep 16 — Context matters when thinking about mobile growth

2011 (10 posts)

May 16 — Making a little effort on improving my cocktailmaking.co.uk facebook integration
May 02 — Big impact from reducing page weight and load times
Apr 18 — 2010 really was (finally) the year of mobile
Apr 04 — The traffic impact of Facebook social plugins on my cocktail site
Mar 21 — Changing search behavior and the depressing truth of a shrinking market
Mar 07 — Search data backs up eBay starting to stop the rot
Feb 21 — Two nations seperated by a common language in search
Feb 07 — Crowdsourcing rudeness ratings in cocktailmaking.co.uk
Jan 15 — This disgusts me or maybe it just makes me sad
Jan 10 — Great onsite merchandising by Google

2010 (11 posts)

Jul 12 — Creating country level heatmaps in Python
Feb 10 — Facebook could eat the web – the Steve Rubel lifestream
Feb 01 — Conan O’Brien gathers Facebook army for huge TV comeback
Jan 28 — Median vs Mean Part 2: CUME vs GRP in offline media and what it means for internet marketing
Jan 25 — Part 1: Median vs Mean – the key to understanding your website
Jan 20 — Dolores Labs Blog: Altruism on Amazon Mechanical Turk
Jan 18 — Diminishing return on user value against page views per user for my sites
Jan 15 — Facebook Ads – Affiliate Summit 2010
Jan 13 — Earthquakes on Facebook
Jan 12 — Awesome infographic of browser share vs time
Jan 08 — Google covered in ads, Yahoo minimalist: a quick look at JP

2009 (34 posts)

Dec 30 — Website gzip compression – making your site faster for Google site performance and SEO
Dec 28 — Making my site faster with Google’s coming site speed changes
Dec 27 — Google: we’ll serve scam ads but won’t put our logo on them
Dec 23 — Upshot of blocking weight loss ads: 50% of revenue
Dec 22 — Revenue drivers (or not) in last two years
Dec 20 — I just cost myself $1000s blocking weight loss ads from adsense
Dec 18 — The rise, then fall, and maybe rise again of my tattoo empire
Dec 15 — The domain migration may be working
Dec 10 — YouTube Insights – Further Enhancements
Dec 09 — Chrome share up 200% year on year now 1 in 20 visits
Dec 08 — Great social media analysis from Alan Long in Oz and NZ
Dec 06 — Facebook feed sites getting into top 100 on the web
Dec 05 — Cocktail season is upon us – thanksgiving and Halloween traffic comparisons for UK and US cocktails
Dec 01 — a little bit of a data issue with google trends for websites
Nov 28 — How do I get a bit.ly API Key
Nov 25 — Social gaming taking off everywhere
Nov 24 — The Kindle will Crush it in the UK
Oct 07 — The Browser Landscape 2006-2009
Sep 30 — What’s going on with Linkedin?
Sep 28 — focus = results
Sep 25 — dimensional reasoning, fermi problems
Sep 24 — big changes, big impact
Sep 23 — Goodmail in my inbox – on unsolicited mail
Sep 22 — massive changes, minimum impact
Sep 16 — Quality work from traditional media in UK
Sep 13 — using php to update status via the Twitter API – cocktail of the day on Twitter
Sep 12 — Bloat vs Lite
Jul 04 — Getting YouTube Videos Up Again
Jun 24 — Challenges facing enterprise SEO marketing
Jun 21 — Crowdsourcing by the Guardian
Jun 16 — Amazing Speakers I have heard recently
Apr 04 — Behavioral targeting is getting almost ridiculous
Mar 14 — Yelp linking to Yahoo!
Jan 25 — Testing a powerful domain on internal linking

2008 (7 posts)

Nov 14 — One of the most successful viral campaigns on Facebook yet
Nov 12 — How to be an effective seo within your organization: PubCon 08 – be positive
Aug 13 — Recovering from the Hack
Aug 10 — Loving Facebook Ads right now
Jun 24 — I Got Hacked
Jun 19 — Brand Keyword Bidding
Jan 01 — The new browser frontier is finally important

2007 (53 posts)

Nov 30 — mysql copy table
Nov 24 — mySQL rename table
Nov 23 — New Site Launch Huge Success
Nov 21 — A little bit of an update on the Stumble Testing
Nov 14 — Stumbleupon Traffic Source
Nov 10 — Squeezing out Efficiencies
Sep 15 — Code Performance is Important
Aug 22 — Google Analytics Regular Expressions
Aug 20 — Cocktail Recommendation: Part 4 – the results
Aug 18 — Tickle.com – impressive revenue generator
Jul 29 — Always Use The Keyword In The Title
Jul 22 — User Targetting Rocks
Jul 22 — Schoolboy SEO Error
Jul 19 — Google Adsense Defaults
Jun 24 — PR is a beautiful thing
Jun 23 — Awesome Discovery
Jun 19 — Revver Blows Me Away Again
Jun 18 — Understanding Cocktail Rating Distribution
Jun 12 — Great Pride in my Colleagues
Jun 11 — Over 10 000 Users on my Facebook App
Jun 10 — This week, live from Boston…
Jun 08 — Facebook Application Customer Support
Jun 04 — In the Facebook Directory
Jun 03 — Free Gifts – Another Viral Facebook App
Jun 02 — The Best Viral Facebook App
Jun 01 — Getting called a Guru Rocks
Jun 01 — Awesome use of eBay by Alan
May 24 — A Beautiful Internet Marketing Experience
May 06 — The Cocktail Recommendation Engine is Live
Apr 27 — % Returning Visitors
Apr 22 — AdSense Dependant and Independant Variables
Apr 21 — Fire the AT&T Internet Marketing team
Apr 19 — Just. One. Word.
Apr 15 — Cocktail Recommentation Engine: Part 3 – The First Results
Apr 13 — Huge steaming piles of data (Project Cocktail Part 2)
Apr 12 — Recommendation Engine: Project Cocktail Part 1
Apr 07 — SELECT … CASE expressions rock!!!
Apr 02 — Make Your Users Feel Awesome by Looking Good
Feb 22 — Does mybloglog reduce adsense earnings?
Feb 11 — Give up completely on CPM ad networks… NOW
Feb 08 — Skype in Facebook contact details
Feb 07 — Sometimes I feel unworthy to be on the web
Feb 04 — eBay Search URL Structure Explained
Jan 30 — Keyword Spamming YouTube
Jan 27 — YouTube vs Revver the fight is on
Jan 25 — eBay Related Searches through Get Search Results
Jan 23 — Skype4Com – Create Chat with VBS
Jan 22 — Banker’s Rounding – WTF
Jan 21 — SEO table stakes, my top 3 – Porthos.com
Jan 13 — Awesome spoofs of the I’m a PC and I’m a mac adverts
Jan 07 — Running a PHP script with a Cron job in 1and1
Jan 06 — My First Cron Job with 1and1 hosting
Jan 04 — 2007 Resolutions – cos predictions get me in trouble

2006 (57 posts)

Dec 26 — Skype Users on Christmas Day
Dec 22 — Getting better at packing for work
Dec 06 — First Payment from Revver $$$
Dec 03 — Starting To Promote the Widget
Nov 19 — Creating Image Thumbnails with PHP
Nov 18 — The Power of Focussing on Something
Nov 15 — Cocktail Recipe Spelling Correlated to Cocktail Strength
Nov 14 — PHP mySQL close connection
Nov 13 — Graphing Search Result Numbers Over Time
Nov 13 — Fun Blogs using the Cocktail Widget
Nov 12 — embedding videos on your website with revver
Nov 11 — Ideas for future blogs
Nov 11 — Dennis rocks
Nov 09 — How to use the Typepad Widget API with PHP
Nov 06 — Linkbait for Typepad
Nov 02 — Using Revver For Videos Instead of YouTube
Oct 15 — 3 Quotes that made me happy today
Oct 01 — Great quote from Tony Blair
Sep 30 — Adsense Google referrer test – the results
Sep 27 — It’s like a pinata
Sep 21 — Advertising to Students: facebook’s a win for banks
Sep 20 — Taking Brand Advertising Learning’s Online
Sep 18 — Geotargetting, IP sniffing and behavioral targeting has a bright future
Sep 16 — Skype users online draws adwords ad, why?
Sep 15 — Using PHP setcookie() for an adsense test
Sep 13 — flickr typepad widget
Sep 13 — del.icio.us typepad widget finished
Sep 10 — All your base are belonging to Google Base
Sep 06 — mySQL UPDATE statement working example
Sep 05 — Facebook – Just a little bit of history repeating
Sep 01 — Affiliate Marketing 2007
Aug 28 — del.icio.us API working PHP code for Https v1
Aug 27 — Paying for community created content
Aug 26 — Cocktailmaking.co.uk v3.0 Launched
Aug 25 — mySQL Left Outer Join
Aug 22 — Moving With Your PC to the US
Aug 18 — Releasing an API can make you more money
Aug 16 — Great Analytics are Crucial to Website Success
Aug 15 — Ripe for Regulation
Aug 15 — Why do search companies offer these Map APIs?
Aug 13 — The Economist Likens Google to Napoleon
Aug 13 — Microsoft Windows Live Writer Download
Aug 13 — Search APIs offered by the largest engines
Aug 11 — Search Engine’s opening up free API’s for their results
Aug 07 — eBay Tag Cloud up and running
Aug 05 — Google Page Rank of 5 with few links
Jul 15 — Radisson SAS Hotel Tallinn
Jul 11 — Dynamic categorization using the ebay API
Jun 17 — Thoughts about Tagging
Jun 14 — Temporal Perturbation
Jun 09 — Thoughts about JSON
May 30 — Web browser Widget: Integrating Internet Explorer into C# Windows Application
May 18 — Working Around SELECT INTO for mySQL
May 06 — Zeus mod rewrite Redirects
May 03 — 301 Redirects
Apr 29 — API enabled tag cloud
Apr 28 — New Attempt with Blogging

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