Introducing Fueltweet, a new Twitter application you can talk to, it’ll tell you the best Petrol or Diesel price in your area.
If you want to know the cheapest spot to fill up in Bishopstown forexample, tweet “@petroltweet Bishopstown” or “@dieseltweet Bishopstown” depending on wether you are looking for Petrol or Diesel prices. It will respond to you a few seconds later with the most up to date and best price it knows in that area.
Read the rest of this entry »
The Marketing Institute, eConsultancy, Mailer Mailer and more are all great sources for email marketing reports and metrics.
There’s no substitute though for real data from a business’s own email marketing campaigns.
Campaign Monitor is a very popular and well-liked email marketing application. It’s cost effective too at 5 US Dollars per campaign + 1 Cent per recipient.
Read the rest of this entry »
More than once I’ve tried to be more productive during a working day by limiting the times of the day that I check and respond to emails. I first came across this idea in the book The 4 hour work week and again in Do it Tomorrow.
I’ve tried working with having only certain times of the day when I check my email. It works for a day or so but I usually fail to keep going for any number of reasons such as meetings, phone calls (because I didn’t respond to an email) or even my own habit of opening up my mail without even thinking.
Read the rest of this entry »
I’ve created my first ever API. I often work with and develop applications around APIs from other providers such as the Twitter API or one of the many APIs provided by Google but this is my first time creating an API that others can use.
Built using CodeIgniter, the API has a simple purpose, to take in a browser agent id string and return whether it thinks the browser agent is a bot or a regular web browser such as Internet Explorer being used by a person browsing the web.
Read the rest of this entry »
For the last week or so, I had a caption competition here on the blog. The 5 winners received 2GB USB keyrings compliments of Littlequiz.com
It was a fun picture taken of me working outside in a large pool that had formed due to the heavy rains in Cork recently.
Read the rest of this entry »
