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Free Competition: Take 2 minutes to win a domain name.

September 15th, 2008 Comments off
This month, Certain Host are giving you the chance to win a free domain name! Free Domain All you need to do to have a chance of winning your very own .com or .co.uk domain name is to give the correct answer to the simple question below, and send us your name and email address (which will be only be used to notify you of the winner). Good luck! If you can't see the entry form here, please visit the competition entry page. Now, it should be well known to you that Certain Host offer a free domain name with three of their most popular hosting packages, but, we're just making sure, and spreading the world a little. Remember - this competition closes on 30th September at 6pm Eastern Standard Time. PS: If you need a clue with the answer to this question, try looking at the web site of a certain reliable small business web host.
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12,000 of our Blog Visitors are missing…

September 11th, 2008 Comments off
I was checking my blog statistics just the other day, and found an unfamilar link to a story I'd written in January. I clicked through to find that Koollage, which produces a mobile version of my blog, had linked to my blog from their 'press' page, and someone had recently followed the link to my original story But I was also intrigued to find that the widget version of this blog shows that is has been viewed 12,553 times since January 2008, when it was set up. That's 12,000 visitors that never showed up on my web stats - rather more than I'd anticipated! The power of the mobile web is getting greater every day - and although this site is already optimised for viewing on iPhones, I see all of those stats through the wonderful Clicky.

The size of our audience is missing...

I think there's a market for the company who can figure out a way to measure and pinpoint the 'hidden traffic' that comes to blogs and news sites through through widgets, RSS feeds syndications, friendfeed references and so on. These figures are not insignificant, certainly for a little blog like this, and knowing where an audience is coming from always helps when you're working to address that audience - quite apart from simple curiosity. Koollage Widget for Digital Biographer. Koollage were featured this week at DEMOFall08 in San Diego, and the beta version of their product is now open to the public.