These are my links for June 4th through June 5th:

• Google Chrome for Mac and Linux has Arrived: But Don’t Download it Yet – Google has just announced the first official beta versions of Google Chrome, its browser, for Mac and Linux. As of now, these versions are only available in the developer channel, which is Google's cutting edge, rapid-release channel for Google Chrome that is geared towards developers and testers, but not the mainstream public.
• template size Twitter background guidelines – Croncast – Ever wanted to make an interesting Twitter background? Here's how I did it.
• WordPress hack: Display your tags in a dropdown menu – I never liked tag clouds, for the simple reason that most of the time, they’re aren’t readable properly. Here is the solution to this problem: Displaying tags in a dropdown menu.
• Chart.ly – share stock charts on twitter
• Google Integration Toolkit • Projekty • Poradnik Webmastera – Google provides a lot of useful services, which can be integrated with your blog. With them you can check how your site is indexed in Google (using Google Webmaster Tools), get detailed statistics (Google Analytics), earn money (Google AdSense) and more. Most of them can be integrated using Text Widget only or modifying theme. This can cause problems, especially for beginners. Moreover, you have to remember to make all changes again when you decide to switch to new theme. You can avoid all of these problems by using Google Integration Toolkit plugin.
• How to Change the World: 24 Hours at Sea on the USS Nimitz – On Friday, May 29, 2009, fourteen bloggers and “distinguished visitors” served a twenty-four hour tour of duty on the USS Nimitz. The following 140 or so pictures and videos document this visit
• Snagsta | Your favourite things. Sorted. – Make lists of your favourite things. Share them with your friends. Discover new stuff in the lists of people similar to you.
• Top 50 UK Charity People by Twitter Followers | Snagsta – This is a list of Third Sector people I've found to be really passionate, knowledgeable and generous on Twitter. It's only a start, as I know there are lots of other great people out there, but I tried to limit the list by having individual (not organisation) profiles. I hope you enjoy following their tweets.
• Can Webwise Discover save Phorm? News – PC Advisor – Controversial behavioural advertising firm Phorm has announced a new system called Webwise Discover, a tool that can be used to recommend deep site content to web visitors based on tracking previous internet use.
• 9 Crucial UI Features of Social Media and Networking Sites | How-To | Smashing Magazine – This article goes over crucial features of the user interfaces of social media and social networking sites. It discusses important features, techniques and concepts behind these designs and explains why they are important, with examples from top sites. These easy and general usability strategies can be applied almost anywhere and to almost any type of user interface.
• BBC NEWS | World | Aerial guide to the D-Day beaches – BBC correspondent Robert Hall gives an aerial guided tour of the French coastline where the D-Day landings took place 65 years ago

These are my links for May 26th through May 28th:

• The Forrester Blog For Interactive Marketing Professionals – Microsoft announced today its Bing search engine, a "decision engine" that will replace live.com worldwide as of June 3. A distant third place in the search engine game, Microsoft hopes that this engine will help it gain more searcher share by delivering results and content more relevant to how users actually search. What makes Bing different from existing search engines?
• Micropayments for content and services | Contenture – Every time a Contenture user visits your web site, you make money. Your slice of every visitor's monthly payment is based on how many visits they made to your site divided by the total number of visits they made to all Contenture sites.
• Mozilla Labs Jetpack | Exploring new ways to extend and personalize the Web – Jetpack is a newly formed experiment in using open Web technologies to enhance the browser, with the goal of allowing anyone who can build a Web site to participate in making the Web a better place to work, communicate and play
• Linkbait Writing Services | Unique linkbait writing services to help your website grow and get more traffic. – At Linkbait Writing Services, we are determined to bring your website or blog more traffic by creating quality linkbait articles. Our small team of writers strive to create linkbait articles that will not only help you reach the front page of social bookmarking sites like Digg and Stumble Upon, but also bring you traffic for the lifetime of your blog. Save your time for marketing your blog and interaction with your readers and let us take care of the time consuming task of building linkbait articles.
• WordPress Designers – Premium WordPress Themes – WordPress Designers is a small team of talented developers and creative designers. We pride ourselves on our intimate knowledge or WordPress and our ability to push it to its limits. Since discovering the WordPress platform several years ago, we have strived to learn as much as we could about it so that we could bring you some of the most creative and well coded themes on the market.
• Outlaw Design Blog » 34 Brilliant Ads on Semi Trucks – a great post showing loads of advertising designs on lorries
• ConceptShare: – ConceptShare is a simple, cost-effective tool for gathering feedback from team members and clients.
• 5 Basic Rules for Creating an Effective About Page — Des Walsh dot Com – This short list of basic rules for creating an effective About page has been prompted by my frustration with the number of blogs and other websites that either do not have an About page or, more commonly in my experience, do not put their About page to work effectively in the interests of their business.
• Small Screen Blog: All about mobile – (by MoFuse) – If you believe that mobile is a strong medium to reach your customers – you need to be thinking about how your brand will evolve on the mobile web. Today you have a few interesting options and they are not mutually exclusive.
  As consumers wake up to the idea that they can actually reach the internet on their phone, we are about to see an explosion of new mobile devices; ITouch, Kindle, “netbooks” and even Sony Playstation Portable already are rapidly changing the ‘connection’ landscape.
• D u s t y T u n e s | Let your music collection see the light…. – Dusty Tunes automatically creates your own personal web page with a list of all the music in your iTunes library (although you can cheat). It will organise it all into a nice list and provide you with links so you can share it with your friends, on blogs, forums, websites, digg, facebook or simply keep it as a personal reference. You can come back at any time and update your page with all your latest tracks.
• WordPress › SEO Ultimate « WordPress Plugins – SEO Ultimate was developed with WordPress plugin "best practices" in mind:

  * Integration with WordPress's contextual help system
  * Internationalization support
  * Nonce security
  * An uninstall routine
  * Integration with the new WordPress 2.7 menu

• Privacy Policy Plugin For WordPress – At the end of February, 2008, Google started requiring AdSense publishers to display a privacy policy on all sites that displayed AdSense ads or search boxes. Since many WordPress blogs are monetized with AdSense, I decided to write a plugin that would automate the creation of AdSense-compliant privacy policies for WordPress users. Thus the Privacy Policy Plugin for WordPress was born.
• WordPress › CMS Navigation « WordPress Plugins – Do you want to use WordPress to create a full website, with easy navigation and menus? This plugin will let you add essential navigation functions to your template.
• WordPress › WordPress Navigation List Plugin NAVT « WordPress Plugins – The WordPress Navigation Tool (NAVT) plugin is a powerful tool designed to provide you with complete control over the creation, styling and contents of your web site's navigation.
• Why Twitter beats RSS: Context + Content = Added Value – broadstuff – Twitter

These are my links for April 23rd through April 24th:

• Enterprise: List of 40 Social Media Staff Guidelines | Laurel Papworth- Social Network Strategy – This list also includes policies called; Staff blogging policies, enterprise social network guidelines, Employee Blogging Policies, Staff engagement in online communities, and so on. I’ve done a few press (radio, print) interviews this week re: Telstra so I thought I should have another look at how Enterprise, Government, Corporates, Not for Profits are handling the fact that their staff are members of social networks too.
• Virgin Atlantic’s ‘steamy’ ad dubbed ‘sexist, offensive to women’ | Sindh Today – England’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has received 29 complaints over the ad campaign, which also includes press advertising, insisting that the ads are insulting to women.
• Amazon.co.uk – Fulfillment by Amazon – Amazon can store, pack and ship goods for you.
• Majestic-SEO : Compare domain backlink history – This tool generates unique charts that are rarely seen outside of R&D labs of the best search engines out there: it shows backlink discovery by month. We hope you will enjoy playing with this tool as much as we enjoyed making it! It currently ignores subdomains, but in the future we might produce this data for subdomains too!
• Would you pay for a Facebook vanity URL? | Blog | Econsultancy – As Facebook's unbelievable growth continues unabated, the company is increasingly finding itself scrutinized by critics who are asking a simple question: 'where's the money'?

I have decided to run two blogs, this one will be my ‘official home’ if you like where I can continue to talk about the things that interest me in the world of marketing, ’2.0′ and beyond. I also wanted to share other more trivial things that interest me or that are more of a personal nature, so I have decided to set up an alter-ego.

www.idontdosudoku.co.uk will be the place where I can share other stuff like my passion for music, pop culture and general stuff. It is also the place I can play around with some coding and generally use it as a test bed. So if you see the site looking trashed, its probably because I am doing something.

After this post I won’t be actively pushing the other site but you are welcome to pop over and say hello. The latest post includes music videos from Massive Attack, The Verve and Fat Les – if you pop over you can see how they are related..

TTFN