The Domain Name Industry in 2007

A review of what happened in the Domain Name Industry during 2007 from DN Journal:

http://www.dnjournal.com/cover/2008/january.htm

Marketing Advice from Gordon Ramsay

Watching the excellent Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, the one where ex IT consultant Scott bought The Priory Restaurant in Hayward's Heath, Gordon commented, "Scott now just needs to drive it, business doesn't just come and sit on your lap, you've got to go looking for it, and if you don't, you're going to fail." This is of course excellent real world business advice when it comes to running a restaurant. However, one of the beauties of internet marketing is that business will literally come looking for you via the search engines, providing of course that your search engine optimisation skills are up to scratch.

Google Android Mobile Development Platform

We've always found mobile devices a bit too fiddly to want to dedicate lots of time to making our websites work on them, but Google obviously thinks it's worth some effort with their support of the open and free Android mobile development platform, and when Google thinks something is worth doing, it normally is:

http://code.google.com/android/what-is-android.html

Common APIs for Social Networking from Google

OpenSocial from Google provides Common APIs for use on social networking websites. Many websites are implementing OpenSocial, including LinkedIn and MySpace. Find out more at:

http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/

The Economics of Online Video

How easy is it for a site owner to make a go of online video? Not that easy. Internet Outsider has an analysis of the economics of online video.

Housepricecrash.co.uk - Track House Prices

With the trouble at Northern Rock likely to be the catalyst to a major slowdown in the UK housing market, you can track the doom and gloom at housepricecrash.co.uk. Brace yourself for financial pain ahead, and if you have high credit card borrowings, think about moving to a better card with the help of UK Credit Cards.

OpenAds for Higher Website Returns?

OpenAds is comparable to Google AdSense except that it allows web publishers to display ads from a variety of ad networks. The company is the latest venture of James Bilefield, who used to run the European operations of Skype. See:

http://www.openads.org/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/07/26/cnad126.xml