Dave Riley

Google mail and your own domains

Google mail is a great way to run multiple domain addresses as it can reply from the address it was sent too, try that in Outlook! One annoying problem for me is sometimes it "has difficulty" sending the email from your domain, maybe a timeout on the server or some other network issue. When this occurs Google will "kindly" forward your email using your gmail account instead. Now this sounds reasonable but it's annoying if you have your own business and you are effectively replying to...

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-23

BBQ Time (again) # I am now using Task.fm for reminders. You can too, at http://www.task.fm # Going to eat an Australian pie from the Aussie pie shop # @connormcc I went to the one in Shepperds Bush, but they seem to be all over http://www.jumbucks.co.uk/ it was very good in reply to connormcc # I uploaded a YouTube video -- Sanyo Xacti http://bit.ly/4tjvzf # Going to have some friday night wine. # going to have a pimms fueled BBQ, marvelous! # going to japan centre...

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-16

If more than 15 people sponsor me on the GNR (for NSPCC) I will shave my head, I will youtube this. http://justgiving.com/daveriley # Just met Nathan Bentley at Shepherds Studios... Small world. # @riesaito Whats for dinner? Shall I get wine? # Just walked past the guy from the Gadget show, felt like shouting "Gadget"! at him, but didn't...

We are Nintendo!

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX4MdXF3OWI] This is a great example of reverse psychology advertising. We care because we want to beat them. They obviously don't want us to beat them but want us to keep trying. Ultimately they are right we cannot beat them, logically it would be better not to try as it is a futile endeavor. Or am I reading too much into...

New google is available for testing by developers

Google has announced on the official webmaster central blog that the next version of Google search is available for developer testing. It looks the same but there have been radical changes to the underlying algorithms this should make the results more relevant and better quality. You can find the new search engine at: http://www2.sandbox.google.com/ At first glance,it's downgraded my site :-( not too happy with that... Bing...