http://www.webeden.co.uk/blog The New Webeden Blog Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:56:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today we’ve got another Guest Blog by Alison Cross from AlisonCross4Webs.co.uk. This time its all about Twitter tool 'The Twit Cleaner'. Its Almost Springtime! Spring is about to be sprung so while you are busy hoovering dust bunnies from beneath the beds why not give your Twitter account a bit of a ... http://www.webeden.co.uk/blog/guest-blogs/clean-up-your-twitter-with-the-twit-cleaner/ Those of you who are regular users of Twitter will already know what a URL Shortener is. For those of you less familiar, a URL shortener.... shortens URLs! It makes website addresses shorter, so that it’s easier to paste into an email, a Tweet, or a text message. For example, let’s say ... http://www.webeden.co.uk/blog/social-media/when-a-url-shortener-doesn%e2%80%99t-shorten-the-url/ You want to use icons on your website. You have a look at word and see what icons and clip Art came with your computer. And what do you find? Not much of any use! You then turn to the web, searching and scouring through the net trying to find the perfect ... http://www.webeden.co.uk/blog/website-builder-tips/cheap-website-icons-thanks-to-icon-finder/ We've speculated quite a bit about Twitter's plans to make money. Whether it comes from integrating advertising with the search facility, or charging businesses to use the service, Twitter at some point will have to get the cash registers ringing. Twitter might do well to take a look at the example ... http://www.webeden.co.uk/blog/social-media/twitpic-shows-how-to-make-money-out-of-twitter/ Bing was big news last year. Despite some ups and downs, Microsoft's newest search engine, was generally judged to be a success. The icing on the cake for Bing came when Yahoo and Microsoft tied up a search deal that would see Bing results replace Yahoos on several Yahoo properties. But whilst ... http://www.webeden.co.uk/blog/search-engine-advertising/bing-stops-growing-yahoo-continues-shrinking/ Its been a LONG time coming, but we have finally launched the WebEden forum! The forum will be a place where you can interact with other WebEden website builders, and members of the WebEden team. Its a great place to ask questions in order to get answers to a problem you may ... http://www.webeden.co.uk/blog/latest-news/webeden-forum-now-live/ A few of the more frequent visitors to WebEden might have noticed a little blue, white and red flag in the top left hand corner of our website. It doesn't take a genius to work out what this is all about: We've just launched in France! Now anyone with French as their ... http://www.webeden.co.uk/blog/product-news/webeden-launches-en-francais/ A few years ago Google indicated that it would build a space where anyone could store all their documents, music and images online, for free. They gave it the moniker 'Gdrive', but since making the announcement everything has gone pretty quiet. Then a couple of weeks ago, they quietly added a few ... http://www.webeden.co.uk/blog/latest-news/want-free-online-storage-take-a-look-at-the-gdrive/ Google – a word that few of us had heard of ten years ago – is now so deeply embedded in our lives that there are some conversations that can't take place without it. It’s impossible to talk about the Internet without mentioning 'Google'. It’s hard to talk about finding stuff without ... http://www.webeden.co.uk/blog/and-finally/google-named-word-of-the-decade/ Last week we had a story that talked about the fact that despite taking over $1.6bn in revenues in the UK, search giant Google paid just £144,000 tax. This is all because the company’s European headquarters are in Dublin, where Google takes advantage of the low tax regime. Apparently Nicolas Sarkozy ... http://www.webeden.co.uk/blog/latest-news/the-french-plan-to-tax-google/