UPDATE: It seems Google has now blocked the invite loophole below. Let’s hope they don’t make the same mistake as Wave.
Google has disabled invites to Google+ but it seems there’s still loophole allowing you to give your friends access to the social network. If you have access and want to invite your friends follow the steps below.
Seems to be an odd way to go about it, but the people I’ve tried it with so far now have full access, even without previously signing up for access with Google. Good luck!
There’s nothing more annoying than skimming through your RSS feeds, finding an article you want to read, then realising the publisher has set their RSS feed to only show a summary. The biggest offenders are the mainstream news publishers.
The obvious reason behind this would be to entice you into clicking through to their website to read the full article. But why?
If I’m on a mobile device and you take me to an desktop website, I’ll leave.
If the article isn’t as interesting as I first thought, I won’t bother reading the rest anyway.
If you’re trying to drive traffic to your site to make money from advertising, just advertise in your feed.
If you want to get me to your site so I may stay a while and read something else, insert links to similar posts into your feed.
At the end of the day, if the article is worth reading, why make it difficult for people to read it. Who knows, they may even decide to visit your site.
It’s a rarity that we see these two men involved in something destined to fail, but is that what Steve Jobs and Rupert Murdoch are doing with The Daily? Continue Reading →
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It’s that special time again that comes along every four years, the largest sporting event in the world is upon as. As we come to the close of the group stage of the tournament, there’s no better time to track your team’s progress. Here are some great resources that will help you stay on top of what’s happening in the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa.
There aren’t many big organisations out there that can release one failing product after another and not only survive, but continue to grow. I speak of the almighty Google. Continue Reading →
If you have your own website, or work in the online industry, at one point or another you will cross paths with Google Analytics. Web analytics tools can be very expensive, hence why most people will start with Google Analytics, a powerful and free tool for website analysis.
Just because Google Analytics is free, it doesn’t mean it lacks some handy features that make it more than powerful enough to compete with the big guns. Here are five tips to help you get more out of Google Analytics.
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You had to be in a dark cave somewhere to not have heard about Apple’s launch of the iPad. You’ve also probably read a countless number of posts of people’s opinions on it, so I’ll keep this short and sweet.
At first glance, you might think the iPad is going to be a flop. It has a number of limitations and may appear to some to be nothing more than a big iPod touch, but that’s where Apple is very clever.
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The popularity of location based applications is on the rise with the global introduction to the likes of Foursquare and Yelp!. Though it seems many have forgotten Twitter has been location aware for some time now.
Twitter gives you the option of enabling Geotagging in your account settings (see image below). Once enabled, third party applications will add a link to your location along with your tweets. (Note that these will only be visible on third party applications and not on the Twitter website).
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