Hi, I’m Craig Bailey and this is my personal blog where I write about technology, business systems, HubSpot and general life experiences. You can read my posts here.
(If you are looking for the Content is King post by Bill Gates it is here)
I’m involved with three agencies in Sydney:
I also co-host HubShots, the podcast and YouTube show focussed on getting the most out of HubSpot. We are the creators of the HubShots Framework.
Well, not really. This wonderful interview with Stephen by Time magazine is a nice rebuke to what the media tells us is important news. IF the media is right about what is important to the public, then we should be making Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan the Time Persons of the Year. Or so claims Stephen. He makes a good point. Technorati Tags: Stephen King, Time Magazine, Britney Spears, Lindsay...
A great article for bloggers on how improve their SEO.
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Another (!) big night this Wed 28 November 2007 with Laurel Papworth and Michael Kordahi presenting. Both sessions will focus on the business value of their respective topics – eg is social networking of use to businesses? Is Silverlight really of interest to companies at this stage? The answer to both is Yes. Come along and find out why. A bit about the speakers: Laurel is a Social Media...
Not wanting to be too much of 'well duh' post, but I thought it was worth reminding ourselves that in software we need to be focusing extensively on marketing and sales. It all too easy to get caught up in the development, to the detriment of the marketing. I've (finally) finished 'Partnering with Microsoft' by Ted Dinsmore and Edward O'Connor. It's a little dry, and...
Only a few here, but they are all good. www.justskins.com
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If, like me, you'd just assumed that Software + Services (S+S) was Microsoft's way of trying to take over and re-brand an existing concept – namely Software as a Service (SaaS) – then the following diagram is a helpful corrective. It's taken from page 18 of Issue 13 of the Architecture Journal (download here), and is a nice overview of how S+S and SaaS relate to each other...
I didn't realise there was a whole bunch of free stuff that you got when registering an Express product. Telerik, DevComponents, etc. Almost makes me want to ditch the full version :-)
(Thanks to Dan Fernandez for pointing this out at point 10).
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A great post by Rand (from SEOmoz) on the how Wikipedia is manipulated (and how it is protected). Interesting reading.
Note: Wiki-hacking is his term.
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From Google Blogoscoped comes this gem on what GMail would look like if Microsoft had designed it. It's too close to reality to be funny… :-)
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Thanks to Grant Holliday for alerting me to this – a great collection of labs, presentations, and demo projects for understanding VS2008.
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