Dec 19, 2008

I have been visiting a few Google Friend Connect websites and have noticed an interesting trend. No one seems to want to edit the canvas.html file to display the correct site name. To be fair it does not say much on the Friend Connect website about the file just "This

Dec 18, 2008

Google Friend Connect was opened up to the world in early December and I have finally gotten a chance to take a look at what it offers. According to the Google Friend Connect website Friend Connect has three advantages to offer website owners. Enrich your site Choose engaging social features

Dec 16, 2008

One of the things I have discovered working on the Internet is that DNS changes take time. I have seen changes to a nameserver take up to 48 hours to start to resolve here in Saskatchewan. I know that it is not the case for the rest of the

Dec 11, 2008

It is that time of the year again when people start to look back at the year and to look forward to setting new goals for the coming year. 2008 for LGR Internet Solutions has been a good one in many respects. Work has been rewarding, new clients continue to

Dec 9, 2008

It has been a little while since I wrote "A Beginners Guide to Affiliate Networks". Things have changed a little since I wrote that. eBay has launched its own partner network, AuctionAds was sold and of course there have been some other affiliate networks that have come online. It has

Dec 3, 2008

Last week I noticed on Twitter that Jeffro was looking for some bloggers to interview for BloggerTalks. Jeff and I finally connected on Skype yesterday and had an interesting conversation about blogging, the difference between a website and a blog, and a few other tidbits. The interview was published today.

Dec 2, 2008

There have been a lot of little things that I have done when I decided to integrate my blog into my main website. Doing a redirection in this occasion I wanted to let Google know as quickly as possible about the new location of the content. Creating Google Sitemaps is not

Nov 29, 2008

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Nov 26, 2008

I noticed a great post by Seth Godin in my feedreader this morning entitled "Death of the personal blog?". There are times when he nails it right. The origin of what we call blogs started as personal diaries, but like everything they have changed, grown

Nov 25, 2008

I just noticed on my WordPress dashboard that WordPress 2.6.5 has been released to fix a few security vulnerabilities, including a cross site scripting vulnerability. You can read more about the release on the WordPress Blog, and you can download the new release here. It is also interesting to note