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OMG..

The goverment in the uk want to start a socail network:

Calling all social media experts - UKGov your ideas for new data mashups, and there’s GBP20,000 to support the best ideas:

Some of the things it will include

Mapping information from the Ordnance Survey

Medical information from NHS Choices

Neighbourhood statistics from the ONS

Pretty much all Offical Notices (bankruptcy, official appointments, etc) from the London Gazette

A carbon calculator from Defra

£20k prize for the best idea..

Find out more here: http://www.showusabetterway.com/

google are ending adsense Referrals

I did ok with them but hey good things can come to a end..

Thank you for participating in the AdSense Referrals program. We’re writing to let you know that we will be retiring the AdSense Referrals program during the last week of August

Google are now launching

www.google.com/ads/affiliatenetwork.

FOR the USA only

adsense Refferals did have uk affiliates but according to the email its only for the usa

Ah well..

http://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/topic.py?topic=14882

If you haven’t heard of Mr site is a massive cheap cms .. basically a website in a box..

I know loads of people who use it to try selling on the web as it cheap and a pretty good cms for newbies.

Over the weekend and notice went out as follows:

Due to continual problems with Trojan Viruses on the Mr Site servers we would recommend you do not update or republish your site until Mr Site has emailed all users to confirm that this has been rectified.

Mr site has removed its support forum a while back but a unoffical site was setup here: http://www.mrsitemembers.proboards79.com/ 

I hope this guys get it sorted as I know of many unhappy customers who can’t change/update their sites.

This may have a major effect on the UK serps if google block/warn searchers about this…

Mr site, site is down too.. http://www.mrsite.com/   some crazy s**t going on here..

I’m getting 1.4 million indexed pages on google see this link: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22created+at+www.mrsite.com 

I guessing maybe 100,000’s of sites are effect as many of these sites are tiny e.g. 3 pages etc..

Today in 1920 Florence nightingale was born!

Today in 2008 google.co.uk give respest to her on the google.co.uk homepage with a new google logo link to http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=florence+nightingale%27s+birthday&hl=en

With the query “florence nightingale’s birthday”

This isn’t showing on the google.com homepage for me “yet” .. UK thing

Here is the logo:

Here is a bit of info about who she was and what she did.. taken from : http://www.netwrx1.com/CherryAmes/nightingale.html

• Florence Nightingale studied nursing in Alexandria, Egypt, and at the Institute for Protestant Deaconesses in Kaiserswerth, Germany.
• She became superintendent of London’s Hospital for Invalid Gentlewomen in 1850.
• She went to Scutari with thirty-eight nurses early in the Crimean War to direct nursing operations; her efforts resulted in greatly reducing mortality rates among the sick and wounded.
• She founded the Nightingale School and Home for Nurses at St. Thomas Hospital in London in 1860, marking the beginning of professional nursing education.
• In 1907, she received the British Order of Merit; she was the first woman to be so honored.

Google uk is just about to overtake ITV for the amount of cash made from advertising..

In the first 3 months of this year google has made$803 million( about £407m)a massive 40% up on a year ago.

Hitwise reports some 78% of searches are made on google by UK internet users in 2007 but i’m pretty sure its far higher..

Marc Mendoza - whose media buying agency is putting a lot of its clients’ budgets online - tells me that Google now has about 80% of the UK online advertising market.

Read more from the bbc:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/04/google_how_big_is_too_big.html

BT have “tested” the use of Phorm to match adverts to some 30,000 broadband users in the uk without telling them..

Loads of loads of BT customers got in contact with the bbc this morning regarding how unhappy their web surffing was being tracked by BT..

Nicholas Bohm, of the Foundation for Information Policy Research, said tests without the knowledge of users were “an illegal intercept of users’ data”.

A spokesman for BT said the firm had no comment about the legality or illegality of the 2006 test.

Read more about this here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7325451.stm

 This morning on bbc news reports interviewed parents at london science museum regarding pricary setting on socail networks.

Most of parents hadn’t got a clue but most of the kids interviewed did..

The report suggested that over half of UK childen are now listed on social networks with bebo being the largest in the uk for under 18’s …

The report also suggest govermental reccomendations regarding putting a 999 banner so that kids could phone up the police if they felt at risk from someone on the likes of bebo, facebook etc..

Sadly bbc hasn’t put anything online about this report as yet but times has the following:

To counter the problem, the Home Office will announce on Friday a new voluntary code of conduct for social networks. Bebo, MySpace and Facebook are to agree that, when under18s set up profiles, they will be set to a high privacy setting as a default. To counter the problem, the Home Office will announce on Friday a new voluntary code of conduct for social networks. Bebo, MySpace and Facebook are to agree that, when under18s set up profiles, they will be set to a high privacy setting as a default.

 Children’s social network pages ‘must have privacy lock’ - http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article3663312.ece

Now I don’t listen much to the radio but in the morning whilst having a show it good to have a few tunes in the background and hear the latest news and what issues London is having with the transport system..

Here is my radio .. pretty cool..

Anyway back to the point…

Between each and every song in the morning on Virgin radio the presenter keeps going on about bigsnap …  Search and you can win blahhh…

Not just that but the competition on the radio for people to phone in are once again related to bigsnap..

Yesterday to question was “What have search for on bigsnapsearch where you can win, which returned a site about “pickels”  ”
(some dog with found a shed load of cash)

The “new” search engine as its called by the radio presenters should have a name change to big virgin search

Just got a email from google about its webinars for adwords so if you use adwords you “might” want to consider giving them a go..

What will I get from an AdWords Webinar?
The webinars are designed to teach you how to manage your AdWords account more effectively by covering topics from best practices on account setup, bidding and campaign management strategies to understanding and using performance reports effectively.

Here’s a list of upcoming webinars. Please register your attendance early using your AdWords email address!

 For more info check you email account which you use for Adwords and visit the url below …

http://www.google.com/adwords/webinars/

First one starts tomorrow so you better be quick!

At last…

The hangover cure has come about as of yesterday for (some of) us web site owners / seo and webmasters (in general)

Yep.. The loss of xmas site traffic is on its way back…

Please note this is a hangover cure for the site(s) I monitor but w00t.. Its good to see the traffic and $$$$ coming back…

Sadly I haven’t got any stats on the proportion sites xmas related vs not…

Well…. My experiences so far with adding xmas sections to site especially UK targeted is that no one seems to be surfing in the subject area I cover, pre xmas oh yes but during nop.. I’ve read reports that on xmas day and boxing day that “some” sites have/had massive traffic manily with shopping bargins and kids stuff…

hmm..

Anyway… All the best for the new year and hope everyones traffic grows : )