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My favourite gadget at the moment is my new phone, the Google Nexus One, which I’ve only had for a few days. But it did get me thinking about running a survey about what people’s favourite devices are. Is it your PS3, or maybe your ls4278 or maybe even your mobile satellite phone. Feel free to leave me a comment and list whatever you like.

It’s funny how we get different devices at different times and different things, some are more suited to one thing and some to another. And it’s amazing how new devices are developed and come out of the blue. I think it’s great to keep a watch on new devices and their effect on people’s lives.

I’ve been putting the finishing touches on a site for the local Junior Chamber of Commerce. It’s not quite ready yet, but I’ll be pointing you at it in the near future. I’m not quite sure what’s going on it besides their content, they might choose to run some related ads, like business advice or links to a life insurance quote website. Then again, it may just be links to social networks that they have a presence on.

That’s the great thing about WordPress, it’s easy to customise it to do just anything you need. What have you been using it for?

Well, Arthur’s DS is well and truly dead, I never managed to get it up and running again, so we decided to get him a DSi. It’s a much better device anyway, with Wifi connectivity and a couple of webcams. I didn’t have any whole life insurance for it, so we went out and bought a new device. No fighting with insurance companies, but we’ll probably put it up on eBay and see what we can get for it.

Well, Arthur has his games machine now, so he’s as pleased as punch!

Do you have any domain names that you registered years ago, have kept renewing, but never did anything with? I had a couple of those, but have decided not to renew them this year. It’s useless throwing good money at them; and if I didn’t have time to do anything in the 4 years since I’ve owned them; the chances are that now that we have twins, I certainly won’t be doing anything with them. If you’re hanging onto them, try and do something with them; so, if you have a health domain, how about just putting up some adverts for the best weight loss pills, or if you have a domain name about hosting, put up some content about the accomplishments of an irvine web design company with associated AdSense. Having the domain is the cost, actually putting something up won’t cost you anything.

Have you tried anything like that?

Excellent write up on Search Engine Land doing a thorough SEO analysis on Bill Gates’ blog. It’s a great primer into search engine optimisation all grounded in some excellent SEO principles. There’s no need for the best seo software when you know what you’re doing. Whether you’re an experienced SEO engineer; or just trying to learn something to try and improve the performance of your site, it’s a great blog post to read and a great way to learn some of the guiding principles around search engine optimisation.

If you don’t know about Twitter, it’s a great social network where people can follow each other and send short messages (Tweets) to one another. It is fast emerging as the the de facto standard to follow brands and celebrities and proving to be an excellent way for individuals and organisations to monitor conversations that people are having about them. It’s an interesting medium, turning small conversations into a crowd-sourced consciousness that is proving to have enormous value. It doesn’t matter if you’re a small organisation, or running most successful home based business, engaging with customers on a medium that suits them is a great way to grow your business. Remember, it’s not just about gaining customers; but about letting customers help you crow and send you new customer.

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I’ve just put a new Wordpress site live called: SherilynneStarkie.com which, as you probably guessed, is my friend Sherrilynne’s new website. She decided to go down the personal brand route and this site pulls together information about her, her new blogging platform and a platform for her lifestream. They’re all things that are easy to do with Wordpress regardless on if you have a personal website, or a site about Titan luggage.

The site uses a free version of a theme called Arthemia which works really nicely and comes very much recommended. Next time I might even use the premium version.

My son’s DS broke down, so I was looking for a guide on how to take it apart; not that I’d have a problem taking it apart; it’s putting it back together again that would be the fun bit. Anyway, I came across a great guide that gives you step-by-step instructions on how to take it apart. It’s much easier to understand than trying to figure out how social security disability works.

Anyway, I’ll take it apart and let you know how I fare. Let’s hope I can manage to fix the problem. I’m hoping it’s a mechanical problem (especially as it rattles), as that should be relatively easier to fix.

So, did you get any gadgets this Christmas? It’s amazing how many Nintendo DSs and ipods actually ship over the Christmas period. Some of them are destined to kids who have been waiting for them for ever, but a lot are also bought by adults who have nothing better to do. The former get used and abused, while the latter lie in cupboards gathering dust.

The question is, what do you do with your Christmas gadgets?

2009 is all and gone and 2010 is the new year that’s now upon us. Companies will come and companies will go, but everyone needs to be found. And SEO remains more and more important, especially with the emergence of real-time search. It doesn’t matter if you’re into jokes, shoes or Orange NJ invisalign, you still need to find customers, and monolothic search engines are still the way to do this. So, keep on top of things .. and I hope you have a great year!