means dongles, London for Free, twitter, xobni and two new web books. Its been a busy web week.
I’ve been thinking for a while about getting a new phone so I can check out all the mobile apps available. But after posting about it on FaceBook, I realise the choice is staggering.
Now I really don’t need an iPhone as all I would use it for are the mobile apps. And I’m a big google fan – there, I’ve said it. So I’ve decided to wait until a cool new phone using the Android platform becomes available and more apps get launched for it.
In the meantime, I’ve opted for a dongle with 3 network – bargain at £90 for 12 months “unlimited” access. Not exactly mobile apps but mobile web using my laptop – which if nothing else means I can take my laptop into work when I need to and don’t need to hassle about to get internet access. Haven’t tried out the dongle yet – might take it to starbucks one day soon and give it a whirl.
This week has been amazing for London for Free. The number of visitors in the past month has now exceeded 21,000 and adsense revenue for Feb has jumped 30% on January. And I do absolutely zero paid advertising.
The site is now ranking top of results for a number of google searches around “London”, so that would help. It even beats commercial sites about London. e.g. for “London walks” I rank number 1, above “walks.com” and others.
I’ve also had an email from Thomson Holidays saying they want to work with me to increase my affiliate earnings through Commission Junction (read, their sales via my web site referrals). And a couple of sites wanting me to include links to theirs “to help my google ranking”. Er, its fine thanks.
So I’ve been thinking of ways of boosting the site’s numbers even more and I’ve now set up a twitter account for London for Free, where I will try to post daily info and links to free stuff. Its also another way of learning more about how twitter can be used for business purposes.
This week I also discovered an excellent plug-in for Outlook called xobni. Can’t rave enough about it – it brings all your LinkedIn and Facebook contacts and statuses into the outlook client so you can see info about people as you read emails from them. It also enables you to integrate hotmail and googlemail accounts so you can check them all from outlook. An excellent plug-in – such a shame I can’t use it at work, even though we use outlook.
Lastly, I’ve bought two books recently which look very interesting.
Click and Grown up Digital.
I’ll post reviews of them once I’ve read them.
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