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Archive for February 2009
Gmail down, world somehow goes on
The Gmail outage that started and was resolved yesterday seems to have set a new bar for media hype over very little. From the inevitable mass of hysterical Twitter activity, to an explosion of blog posts, to mainstream media pouring over the story (even making the front page of London’s Metro newspaper), it seems an … Continue reading
Atlantis found, then lost again
In a nice piece of publicity for Google Earth, Google responded to speculation that the fabled Atlantis had been found just off the coast of Hawaii. Update: looks like I lost it too, it’s actually off the west coast of Africa, only it’s not if you see what I mean… The ordered lines certainly looked … Continue reading
Spotify iPhone application
One of the most popular articles on Technocloud recently was a look into Spotify’s multi-media ambitions in a post called Spotify mobile where I noted a job advert on their site advertising for a Nokia S60 platform software engineer. Those ambitions are slowly being realised if a video of a potential Spotify iPhone app is … Continue reading
Improving your bounce rate
Back in November, I started an experiment to improve the bounce rate on the blog through the related-posts plugin in WordPress. As below, this typically displays three related posts based on tag, category, body and title. I’ve been monitoring the changes in the bounce rate each month since the plugin was activated with encouraging results. … Continue reading
