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Thursday 2 July 2009

RTE hacked

Here is what the website looked like few minutes ago (click on the image to enlarge)

Bastille Day Party!

You haven't been invited by the French Embassy in Ireland for Bastille Day ?

Neither have the French Friday team or any of their friends.

The good news is that it doesn't mean we won't enjoy ourselves on that day. We are planning a party in the Bia Bar and have 100 Free Grey Goose Vodka Cocktails to give away. Admission is FREE.

RSVP on Facebook

Sunday 28 June 2009

Overheard While traveling

You are probably familiar with blogs like OverheardinNewYork.com or OverheardinDublin.com


Following the same idea, I set up a new blog called Overheard While Traveling  where travelers can share titbits of conversations they overheard on their journeys.

The site is very new and your feedback is more than welcome, and if you heard something funny during one of your trips, please share it.

Pre-oder my book (or a very similar book) on Amazon

So they mispelled my name, don't have the right title, have spelling mistakes in the title and don't provide any images of the cover but I am pretty sure that the book you can pre-order on Amazon is mine. Of course I could be wrong. Maybe two books with almost the same title, almost the same author name and the very same publishing house will be published on September 10th. You never know...

Wednesday 13 May 2009

Google Suggest for my name!

Ego Search

Saturday 2 May 2009

That's what I call listening to your customers!

Click the image to enlarge. (Start reading from bottom left then up)

Tuesday 14 April 2009

New French Friday Poster

 

Antoine, from Labowhat has created a new poster for the French Friday party. Do you like it ?

Friday 3 April 2009

I Can Has iPhone Interface!

ConversionR, the Social Network For SEO, SEM, Affiliate and Conversion Marketing Freaks has been optimized for the iPhone. To access the iPhone interface, you simply need to add /m to the URL of ConversionR. http://www.ConversionR.com/m

Using the iPhone interface, you can view photos on ConversionR and photos will even rotate to accommodate the direction in which the phone is being held. You can also view embedded videos and scroll, over multiple pages, through ConversionR's Latest Activity.

You can browse members, add people as friends or leave comments on profile pages from your iPhone or your iTouch.

Wednesday 1 April 2009

OSS Barcamp and Search Marketing World 2009

Within a few days, I've attended two great events in Dublin. One dedicated to Open Source projects, the other one to Search Marketing.

OSS Barcamp took place in DIT and reunited a crowd that had a great nerdy/geeky feeling. Don't get me wrong, I include myself in that lot. Some of the talks were too technical for me (I'm not a developer) so I focused on the sessions related to Open Source Softwares like Gimp, Mixxx and Freemix. I was really inspired by Luis' playful approach to technology.
The funniest guys at the event were the ones from TOG. They want to create a hackerspace in Dublin and their performance took everybody by surprise. I also enjoyed catching up with James (who I had not seen in a few months) and Jamie (who I had not seen in a few years!).

The Search Marketing World Conference was a more business orientated event, but one that I also truly appreciated. As an in house PPC marketer, it is great to get an opportunity to exchange with fellow Search Marketers in real life rather than just via blogs, forums or on Twitter. I had some great chats with Jason, Lisa, Dave, Alan etc...

Video was clearly showcased as the next big thing, even bigger than mobile. Youtube is now the second most popular search engine in the world ahead of Yahoo! and MSN.  And Google now shows videos directly in the Serps which gives businesses yet another opportunity to appear on the precious first page.

The Content Network still divides marketers, some clearly advising to switch it off, while others argue that it has really improved and now brings good ROI.

A/B testing, usability: it seems that search marketers in Ireland still have a lot to do in order to catch up with that. At a session on A/B and Multivariate testing for example, I was the only one to raise my hand when the speaker asked who was already using Website Optimiser. But I expect it to change dramatically in the next few months from the interest that the sessions raised.

Google Analytics: If some other analytics were mentioned, it was only in passing. The one people use is Google Analytics.

Local Business Ads, Google Gadget Ads, Facebook Ads, Twitter...I hope these subjects will be covered in a next event in Ireland.

Sunday 29 March 2009

Web/Tech events in Ireland update

I am preparing an updtae of the list of events related to technology and the internet in Ireland. If you know of an event that should be on it, please submit it in the comments.

Wednesday 25 March 2009

Side projects round-up

The book version of Entendu à Paris is planned for September. The book will be published by Editions First.

Voyageek has been added to Travel.Alltop.com

The next French Friday will take place on Sunday 29th, but next month we'll be back on...Friday.

Forum Irlande got its 700th member and ConversionR its 20th...

Tuesday 24 March 2009

Lunatic Blogger Strikes Again

Would you write at the end of a newsletter  "If you have received this email in error or if you no longer wish to receive email from us, you can unsubscribe by replying to this email with "FECKOFF" in the subject line or clicking unsubscribe. " ?

Probably not.

But that's what Jason Roe just did in the newsletter I received from him about the BTW meet up in Dublin. Some might say he's an idiot and a lunatic but I actually thought it was funny. Go Jason!

Thursday 12 March 2009

Guest Post on SEOClient

My mate Neil from SeoClient asked me to start posting about PPC on his blog. You can check my first guest post covering the subject: "The Top PPC Twitterers You Should Follow"

Wednesday 11 March 2009

You Have To Love The Post


Sent on January 20th from France. Arrived to our place in Ireland on March 11th!

Friday 20 February 2009

AdWords Wish List

Google is using its Moderator tool to get feedback from PPC marketers about AdWords. You can submit ideas or vote for other people submissions. According to the site "The top three ideas will be presented to the AdWords Product Team and a response will be posted in the forum", however, there is no indication of when this will hapen.

The current top idea is "To be able to set different bids on Search Partners for my adwords campaigns!".

You can also vote up my submission: "To be able to download changes for a specific campaign/adgroup in AdWords Editor".

Monday 9 February 2009

To-do list for TechCrunch France.

  • Give us an easy way to subscribe to the original posts as opposed to the translations from TechCrunch.com. I read TC in english, so I don't want to get the translations in my reader. Just the original content on French Start-ups.
  • Fix your template. It says that every single article was written by Michael Arrington. Michael's "voice" is very different from Jason Kincaid or Erick Schonfeld for example.
  • Update you About Page. TC wasn't created 8 month ago.
  • Cover the French Tech Scene. Mike Butcker does a great job at covering the local UK tech scene. TC France needs to do the same for France.

Sunday 8 February 2009

ConversionR: A Social Network For Online Conversion Freaks


I wanted to play with Ning.com for a long time. As a member of Travelblogexchange, that is built on the Ning Platform, I was impressed by the product: very easy to use, great UI etc.
Regarding the admin dashboard, the guys in Ning haven't disappointed me, it is as nice as the user one. Even hosting the social network on its own domain was super easy.
The result is ConversionR, a social network around SEO, SEM and Online Marketing in general. Feedback welcome.



Tuesday 20 January 2009

Not Nominated to the Irish Blog Awards

Nobody nominated you to the Irish Blog Awards and you didn't want to nominate yourself ?...Welcome to the club!

There are already several nominations logos available. I took the liberty to borrow one of them and I created a Not Nominated badge. :)

Saturday 17 January 2009

Tip for Ireland.com : Fire your ad agency!

Why would anyone create an ad with the url checklivescoresandresults.com but not even bother to buy that url ?

Well, checklivescoresandresults.com is now mine.

I am still flabbergasted by the amateurism of the ad agency that created this campaign. If I were Ireland.com, I would ask for my money back.

Image : screenshot of Myhome.ie with the ad from Ireland.com

Saturday 3 January 2009

Their own damn fault

JPG Magazine says Goodbye

JPG Magazine, issue 7, page 5:  "We say, if magazines are dying, it’s their own damn fault

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