New Year, New Look, New Products

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!There will be some changes here at the kitchen in 2008.
PeerPlink Blog Network
We will be launching a blog network on the 1st of Jan, covering Technology, Start Ups, Design, Marketing, Applications and Gossip.
We are looking for writers and stories, […]

SEO, the long tail, Google, Seth Godin and Kingsway Mansions

There is, has been and probably always will be some sort of animosity towards SEO in certain parts of the blogosphere, this post isn’t really about that debate but you can read about it here.
SEO is the lifeblood of just about all online businesses so getting it right pays. The long tail in seo has […]

Thinking Inside the Box

I’ve just been Reading Thinking Inside the Box (a reader in interiors for the 21st century) one of the editors being a friend/colleague of my wife, who is also mentioned in the book. What stood out was what my pal, Drew Plunkett wrote about design
Shared understanding of the conventions and mechanisms of everyday existence gives […]

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all

As many of you will be leaving work today to start your Christmas holidays I thought it was best to send out our good wishes today.
Here’s hoping you all have a great holiday, don’t eat too much, don’t drink too much and make 2008 a year to remember.
A friend of mine sent me this, which […]

Web 2.0 Marketplace

If you’ve ever sold a site on Sitepoint marketplace you’ll know how sometimes it’s just a waste of time and I know I’ve sold a few sites their.
Well Pete at Mashabale has launched the Web 2.0 marketplace which may help.
Obviously Pete has the traffic to do this but it’s not auction based. I’ll try and […]

Happy Squidoo to you

Seth has announced Squidoo is into profit.
And here’s a neat tidbit: We’re profitable. We haven’t raised any VC money, and now we shouldn’t ever have to. This means that we can continue to run the company for our lensmasters, for the people who surf by and for the charities we support, instead of focusing on […]

Instant Blog Network

We’ll be releasing a little script this week that will allow you to instantly create a blog network.
Let’s say you have 5 blogs and you want a single point of entry to them then this little script will do the job.
You install it on one domain, then add your blogs. What you will end up […]

Get your text in shape

Anyone who has designed a website has already accepted that text has to come in a rectangle, well no more. CSS Text Wrapper lets you create all kinds of wondrous shapes for your text.
Spotted on e-hub.

Will it work?

Evan Williams (Twitter co-founder among other things) has made a very insightful post on evaluating your idea.
Evan poses 7 questions

Tractability
Question: How difficult will it be to launch a worthwhile version 1.0?
Obviousness
Question: Is it clear why people should use it?
Deepness
Question: How much value can you ultimately deliver?
Wideness
Question: How many people may ultimately use it?
Discoverability
Question: How will […]

Social Networks a Fad, Fashion or Utility

Mashable report Steve Balmer’s quote about social networks
I think these things [social networks] are going to have some legs, and yet there’s a faddishness, a faddish nature about anything that basically appeals to younger people
And it got me thinking. Do people expect facebook et al to continue forever?
My personal feeling is that social networking is […]

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