Jamie Riddell

Digital Marketing Entrepreneur

Posting from the iPhone

This is my first post from the wordpress iPhone app. It seems useful, allowing me to publish content or save it locally which is very handy.

I can include tags and it has all my categories saved but doesn’t recognise the additional plugins. So, to add my SEO data, and the homepage image I will need to log in ‘properly’.

I’ll add a photo now but expect this will also need to be resized. Actually I can’t do that – cab get the picture onto wp but not into the post. Something for later then. (update, it actually worked!)

It is useful, though and quite quick to write so I will use it again to get initial blogs written but may not actively publish from here due to the factors outlined above.

I’ll publish now and tidy up later.

Google News WP Plug in

I have been looking for a method of pulling in the latest news on a particular topic for this blog. The plug in I found is called Google News which can be found here or search for ‘Google News’ in your plug in menu. The plug in works by allowing you to create any number of different feeds specifying the news region, topic or specific subject. You then simply add the short code to your blog post citing the title you have given the specific feed [NB - that bit is case sensitive.] Once that is done you will have an ever updating news source in your page.

Google News Settings

This example is pulling the latest Swine Flu news.

[google-news name="Swine_Flu"]

Bookmarks for June 30th from 13:55 to 15:26

These are my bookmarks for June 30th from 13:55 to 15:26:

  • HTC – Products – HTC Hero – Overview – HTC Hero is our first phone to embody HTC Sense™ – an intuitive, seamless experience built upon three fundamental principles – make it mine, stay close, and discover the unexpected.
  • The National Association For Holistic Aromatherapy – The National Association for Holistic Aromatherapy NAHA is an educational nonprofit organization dedicated to enhancing public awareness of the benefits of true aromatherapy.
  • WordPress › Ephemeris « WordPress Plugins – Adds a sidebar widget that display from the astrologycal sky the sun sign, the moon sign and the moon phase. The plugin also display degrees for the sun sign, degrees for the moon sign and how old the moon is. It has options to display the signs and moon pictures large and small.
  • WordPress › Widget Locationizer « WordPress Plugins – Widget Locationizer permits you to define where you want your widgets to appear. You may specify the tags, categories, and page/post IDs for which a widget will be displayed. It also provides an option to exclude the widget from being displayed on selected tags, categories, and post/page IDs. Furthermore, you can assign a nofollow or dofollow status for a widget's contents too.

Bookmarks for June 16th through June 17th

These are my links for June 16th through June 17th:

Bookmarks for June 15th from 12:25 to 13:47

These are my bookmarks for June 15th from 12:25 to 13:47:

  • AdWords Campaign Analyzer Motion Chart – Analyze your AdWords reports in a Google motion chart. Gives an overview (yearly, quarterly, monthly, weekly or daily) of all key metrics across your campaigns, to see how they develop over time. Makes it possible to identify opportunities for optimizing your campaigns and budgets. For search marketing specialists, the app allows for MCC accounts switching, making it easy to analyze several client accounts. Your AdWords login credentials are sent directly to the AdWords API, nothing is stored on youcalc's servers.
  • Hunch Launches, Reinvents How You Make Decisions – Back in March, we learned of an interesting new social tool called Hunch. Cofounded by Flickr (Flickr) co-founder Caterina Fake, the startup’s goal is to help you make decisions by using its algorithms together with traits it has learned about you. Ask it a question, and it helps you choose an answer that suits you. It has been in private beta since it was revealed.
  • Free WordPress Templates – TZ – 25 Free WordPress Templates that are really nice and unique.

Bookmarks for June 10th from 09:49 to 10:12

These are my bookmarks for June 10th from 09:49 to 10:12:

Bookmarks for June 9th through June 10th

These are my links for June 9th through June 10th:

Bookmarks for June 4th through June 5th

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

Bookmarks for June 4th from 09:23 to 13:11

These are my bookmarks for June 4th from 09:23 to 13:11:

Bookmarks for June 4th from 08:49 to 09:23

These are my bookmarks for June 4th from 08:49 to 09:23:

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