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Article: How blogging is changing the world no. 6543
If anybody needed any further indication that (a) blogging is changing the world and (b) blogging is changing the way US politics is run or (c) that stories about bloggers and blogging changing the world are not going to go...
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Article: Australian broadband statistics slammed
The federal government has been actively discrediting the latest rankings of OECD countries for broadband speeds. A telecommunications analyst company, Market Clarity, has provided their own assessment of Australia's position in the broadband subscriber statistics. The OECD report had Australia...
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Article: ABS Internet Activity Survey
The recent Australian Bureau of Statistics' report entitled "Internet Activity Survey" shows 3.91 million Australians are subscribing to broadband compared to 2.75 million for dial-up connections. This represents an increase of 1.8 million broadband subscribers from March 2005 to September 2006. Broadband subscribers represent...
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Article: Google Maps geocoding
A quick post on geocoding map Google Map information to create the kind of maps available at the Aboriginal Art Directory. If you receive a UTF-8 error while trying to encode your data add "&oe=utf-8" to the calling URL. And...
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Article: Jim Boykin’s Favorite SEO Writings.
Since I’ll be taking a blog break for ~6 weeks, I thought I’d leave some of my favorite post here on top, and organized nicely (Pulled from how it’s organized from my link teams training page). Link Building Philosophies:Picture of Link...
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Article: Mashable review of Google Analytics
Mashable recently published an excellent review of the new Google Analyitcs, 27 Features That Make Google Analytics Best of Breed. The author discusses the various features of Google Analytics and highlights the functionality provided. The articles features: Goal setting Comparing...
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Article: Google Analytics instructional videos
Google have released a number of Google Analytics videos from the Google Conversion University event on August 1. Attendees at the Google Conversion University event had the chance to share ideas, meet with the Google Analytics team, and listen to...
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Article: New Version of Google Analytics
On May 8 2007 at the Emetrics Summit in San Francisco, Brett Crosby and Jeff Veen unveiled the new version of Google Analytics. Google Analytics has been the premier website analysis and reporting tool since launched in 2005. It beats...
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Article: How do I track e-commerce transactions?
Google Analytics supports a client-side data collection technique for capturing e-commerce transactions. With some simple additions to your receipt page, Google Analytics can automatically detect and record transaction and product information. The required information is placed in a hidden form,...
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Article: Boingo Wireless Internet
While trying to work out how we would maintain consistent internet access while traveling around Europe working on our projects, Metis Internet Partners came across Boingo, a global wireless internet company. As of 25 June 2007, Boingo is offering a...
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Article: Compete
Compete.com was created to organise the clicks users make on the web. Bill Gross's vision was simple: if we all share our clicks, then each of us gets smarter by knowing what's happening across the web. Today, search engines help...
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Article: Submitting your site to blog directories
Recently we have been asked a lot about submitting blogs to directories and the impact on internet marketing and search engine optimisation. As usual sites that offer to submit your blog for free to thousands of directories for a small...
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Article: Kevin Ham The man who owns the Internet
Much has been made of Kevin Ham, The man who owns the Internet. Paul Sloan did a front page spread about him in the June 1 2007 edition of CNN Business 2.0. While the article is focussed on the value...
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Article: Problems with userpic in Movable Type 4.21
There are a few posts out there with people documenting problems with userpics. I have had a different issue. When upgrading to 4.21 I saved the assets and then copied them over with an ftp client. During the upgrade process...
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Article: Upgrading to Movable Type 4.21
Need help upgrading to Movable Type 4.21? Here are some resources: Upgraded to Movable Type 4.21 Movable Type Pro 4.21: Still Slow, Still Ugly Adventures in Upgrading: MT 4.21 Gotchas Most importantly look at: Known MT 4.21 upgrade issues and...
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Article: Blog It: Connecting Social Networks and MT
Blog It is a new facebook application that lets users post from facebook to Movable Type and any other blogging platform. In conjunction with Action Streams this is a really exciting development from one of the most exciting online companies...
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Article: Action Streams
Today, we're shipping the next step in our vision of openness -- the Action Streams plugin -- an amazing new plugin for Movable Type 4.1 that lets you aggregate, control, and share your actions around the web. Action Streams shows...
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Article: Movable Type community solution
Recently I have been looking at the Movable Type community solution. It extends the Movable Type blogging package significantly by adding the opportunity for members of any website to blog, comment or post on a forum. I have been very...
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Article: Movable Type Consulting Companies
For a comprehensive list of Movable Type Consulting Companies view the Movable Type wiki. There are companies from North America, Europe, South East Asia and at this stage one from Australia, Metis Internet Partners. The companies and service providers displayed...
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Article: How to install Movable Type on Windows Vista
There are a few fragmented posts about Movable Type and windows installation, and an excellent article written by Chad Everitt in Learning Movable Type. To install Movable Type on Windows Vista first you need to install PHP, MySQL and Perl....
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Article: Installing Movable Type: The Simple Way
Staggernation recently provided a simple and quick guide to installing Movable Type. Metis Internet Partners host Movable Type blogs on pair Networks. The following is a modified guide to installing Movable Type easily with pair. 1) Download the latest version...
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Article: Movable Type 4.01 Release Candidate 1
Movable Type 4.01 Release Candidate 1 was released in early September. The release contains a number of bug fixes including a fix for an XSS vulnerability and a fix for a bug that affects Movable Type's data abstract layer called...
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Article: Movable Type 4 Beta 4
The Movable Type team has released a fourth beta for the Movable Type 4 blogging platform. Beta 4 makes more refinements to the system level navigation scheme and to the primary navigation of the application, which will hopefully address one...
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Article: Movable Type 4 Beta 3
The Movable Type team has released a third beta for the Movable Type 4 blogging platform. Beta 3 allows the user to customise the dashboard amongst other things. Beta 1 did not install on the pair server and I found...
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Article: Movable Type 4
On the 5th of June 2007 Six Apart released Movable Type 4. Movable Type 4 is the long awaited beta update of the fabulous blogging tool from Six Apart. Metis Internet Partners have been customising, developing and supporting Movable Type...
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Article: Online and pay TV lead Aussie ad spend
Clients' spending on advertising in Australia rose 11.5% in 2007, with online and subscription TV both showing healthy increases. The Commercial Economic Advisory Service of Australia (CEASA) annual survey of advertising spend showed that total advertising spend topped A$13.2 billion....
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Article: About Facebook
On May 15 2006 John Cassidy from the New Yorker took a long look at the phenomenon of Facebook, the social networking website created by Mark Zuckerberg while at Harvard University. The article looks at the life of Zuckerberg and...
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Article: Social Networking Websites: Virtual Friendship and the New Narcissism
In Virtual Friendship and the New Narcissism, Christine Rosen looks at the impact of new social networking communities on western culture. Rosen examines the changes in language, politics and society and the impact that these sites have on friendship, privacy,...
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Article: Meeting planner
One of the most essential tools for a virtual organisation is a decent meeting planner. We are constantly trying to work out the time and time differences between Mexico, Singapore, Melbourne, Alice Springs, the United Kingdom, the United States and...
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Article: How to create successful, virtual teams
Anne Zelenka wrote an excellent article in the Web Worker Daily about fostering successful virtual teams. Zelanka came up with seven key traits that successful virtual teams demonstrate: Management demonstrates a thoroughgoing commitment to virtual work Team members communicate regularly...
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Article: Stay Smart Online
Stay Smart Online is an Australian Government Initiative designed to provide all Australian online users with practical tips and advice on e-security. The Stay Smart Online website contains basic information on how to secure your computer, best practice tips for...
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Article: Pair Networks
Currently in itstwelfth year of continuous operations, pair Networks is the Web host with long-term stability. The company has no long-term debt, has been profitable since 1996, and reinvests its profits into further growth of the business. There are many...
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