Last week Google announced GMail Labs, a new option in Gmail where you can try out loads of new features that they have been messing around with. To add one of the new features all you need to do is login to your Gmail account, go to the settings page and choose the labs tab. … Read more
A few years ago the website Friends Reunited became incredibly popular in the UK. Over the course of a few months traffic jumped to crazy figures. I remember everyone signing up around that time and people were using it and updating their profiles a lot. For those who don’t know, Friends Reunited is a website … Read more
UPDATE: 6th April 2018 It is 10 years since this article was published. I recently spoke to Joel Comm about this issue. Joel explained that the president of his company (at the time) suggested what people were calling a “forced continuity” payment model and Joel agreed to it. He noted that the buck obviously stops … Read more
A week ago , popular blogger and online market Jim Kukral launching a marketing experiment called TwitterMeThis. Basically, TwitterMeThis is an experiment by Jim to see how the Twitter media can be used. He has asked people to follow the TwitterMeThis account at Twitter and periodically he asks his followers a question. The first person … Read more
TechCrunch today announced that Rocketboom founder Andrew Baron is selling his Twitter account on ebay. As expected, a debate has been sparked around whether this is even allowed and more importantly, what effect will this have on Twitter. Currently the account has reached $510 on ebay and with 9 days to go I’m sure it … Read more
I have read about Twitter numerous times in the last year however I constantly resisted invitations to join Twitter. Although I could see the benefits of using it, I just didn’t want something else wasting my time (msn messenger and skype waste a few hours every week for me as it is!). Jason Blanton emailed … Read more
The number of email addresses I have used over the years has changed many times, mostly depending on how many websites I had at the time. At the moment I have 12 emails I check – 1 personal email address for friends etc (hotmail) and 11 work related emails (eg. my websites). Centralising my email … Read more
If you have read this blog before then you will quickly realise that I changed the blog’s theme last night. I liked the last theme but it was kinda basic and I wanted to present a more professional image for myself and the blog. The new BloggingTips design will be live in a few days … Read more
Last week a 43 year old man from Maryland called Chris Clark sold Pizza.com for 2.6 million dollars. This was a unique story as Mr Clark was not a domain trader, he isn’t someone who has thousands of domains in his collection, he simply bought the domain in 1994 and kept renewing it every year. … Read more
A few days ago Susan Gunelius from Women On Business wrote a post on BloggingTips called ‘Paying for Diggs and Stumbles‘ The post talked about a new site called Subvert & Profit, a site where you can pay for diggs and stumbles, and spoke about whether this kind of thing was good for bloggers. Personally, … Read more