Last Friday I had 2 major emails from Varien, developers of the open source eCommerce product Magento.
The first was the launch of the Enterprise edition of the software which had been touted for a while and annouced on thier blog earlier that week. It came as something to a shock to all those people still [...]
Magento Partner Programme aimed at the cream of the crop.
Established brands get leg-up with Jan 18 Google update
SEOBook have just posted some interesting RankPulse data showing established brands leaping to the front page of Google following an update on January 18th 2009
It follows comments from Google CEO Eric Schmidt last October who started to talk about brands as being the differentiator in the swamp of search results
The internet is fast becoming a [...]
Coupon cutters will go for anything
A few weeks back we launched shineecommerce.com, our entry level ecommerce service.
To show it off we set up a demo store at http://demo.shineecommerce.com and fattened it up with some data from an affiliate network data feed.
The on site SEO of the platform is something we’re pretty pleased with the demo store now gets a couple [...]
An image experiment
Just ignore this for now, it’ll take a week or two for it to make any sense.
This is a snapshot of my hang-out when the office gets too hectic. The Virgin Active gym cafe.
Are you right brained or left brained?
Look at this image and decide which way it is spinning:
Clockwise means you use more of the right hand side of the brain.Anticlockwise means you use more of the left hand side of the brain.
Left brained people are associated with using logic, facts and rules in their reasoning. Right brained are associated with using feelings, [...]
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