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I have said this many times before - but the 'new' social Internet has a real risk that a publicity nightmare could blow up in blogs, forums, or review sites without your knowledge of it. I have stressed that businesses should be monitoring the greater social Internet for all mentions of their busin...
It was about a week ago that I met up with an old friend, Newell Hodgson to hear of his new business - Cash Fix. Cash Fix is targeting a massively growing niche market that has taken off globally (in fact, it is the fastest growing business sector in the US for the last few years) offering short ter...
All Xebidy developed websites are built on our Bootstrap CMS (which is developed on the very popular Silver Stripe open source framework - more coming soon) which means you maintaining your own images, constantly reworking them, cutting them and resizing them to fit into your constantly fresh conten...
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Buying domains

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I used to buy lots of domains, and still have lots that I am gradually letting slide as they come up for expiry - too much hassle for me when I have enough on my plate here. In the past you would buy domains on the chance that they would become valuable either for your own business or for someone el...
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After I had previously praised the music streaming site Pandora (see blog post here) I rather dejectedly advised you recently of the disappearance of Pandora for everyone outside of the US (see post here). While Finetune remains my favourite music streaming site I have found an alternative: Soundped...
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Accessing your bookmarks from any computer was always a problem until the social bookmark sites such as De.licio.us and Digg.com came along. On these sites you simply create an account and save web pages to your account accessible from any website. But in practice you find that you end up saving lot...

Bad Press in Web 2.0

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I am really enjoying working on the Oz Experience project at present as everyday so many things come up that just reinforce what I am preaching about selling on the Internet and Web 2.0. The latest involves bad press....

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