Google maps Australia, finally.

Some fifteen months after it’s announcement, Google Maps have finally got Australia covered. The new version of the API makes it a snap to add a customised interactive image map, such as this one, to your website.

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Lies, damn lies and (web) statistics

Like most webmasters, we record website statistical information to help us determine who our regular readers are and what they’re reading. As of last week, this is a summary of the ratio of browsers used to access our website:

As you can see, Internet Explorer still leads the pack but it’s popularity is definitely dwindling fast, largely thanks to the mainstream adoption of a much better alternative in Firefox.

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A year of blogging

It’s been exactly one year since we obliterated our traditional website and joined the blogosphere.

What started out as observations, commentary, opinions, tips and the occasional rant on the marriage between business and technology has largely remained true to it’s intent.

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Hottest search engine optimization software?

That’s what the people behind the “RankAttack SEO Technology” website claim anyway. Apparently, their “aggressive technology” (whatever that means) enables the overwhelming majority of webmasters to enjoy improved rankings with the search engines in a matter of just days. Yes, that’s right, days. Not weeks, not months but days.

Claiming that SEO is a “difficult task”, with the search engines “always changing the rules”, they have come up with a piece of $79 (US) software which is able to mislead the search engines into believing that your brand new and shiny website is suddenly getting lots and lots of enquiries, so the search engines might as well hurry up and get the bloody thing indexed so even more people can enjoy the seemingly many benefits it offers to the mass populace.

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