Here comes the iPhone. It looks great, Apple are fated for their customer-centric products, and the feature set may revolutionise how we interact with our phones.

But could the iPhone herald the genesis of the Mobile Internet we are waiting to get?

First post of 2007, some thoughts, some ideas, and free site reviews and advice. Read on and leave your URL in the comments.

Season’s greetings to one and all

Google seems to be coming more vocal in how it communicates with webmasters.

Here are a couple of recent pronouncements from Google that are definitely worth a look.

A quick fluffy link to an interesting post about Search Marketing in Portugal.

Get your .COM domains from Google for $10 per year including private registration.

As the title suggests, this is A Really Simple Guide to RSS.

New report from McAfee SiteAdvisor on study comparing the safety risks of the sites listed in the top results for 1,500 search queries.

Google launches Patent Search for US patents using the familiar Book Search interface.

A study into the Accessibility of major Government, Public and Political websites.

The full study is available for download from within this post.

How low will they go?

Spammers target Moscow Children’s Hospital with slick charity website and copious amounts of spam asking to ‘HELP SAVE THE CHILDREN!’.

NASTY

…you had better not leave blatently obvious tracks

[WARNING: not workplace safe]

ready for a new day?

Er, um, well, maybe. I’m not so sure Microsoft was though.

Sometimes the things you stumble upon are the most interesting.

Someone has set up a tracker for the main Irish property websites, and the charts are quite fascinating.

When and why do Google de-index pages?

Perhaps it’s just me, but when 2 pages about Thinkhouse PR disappear from Google’s index there’s something fishy going on…

Sometimes spammers can put a smile on your face.

For me today is one of those days

the Golden Spider was awarded to Moviestar.ie for its performance, as a functioning site in addition to design, innovation, content, navigation, technology, interactivity and ease of use.

Hmmm….

Should we be taking far more interest in Internet and Mobile video?

Well, according to an ICM poll for the BBC TV, time is being forfeited for these new emerging technologies.

How does ‘house price inflation’ become ‘hous price inflat’? Or ‘minister cowen’ become ‘minist cowen’?

Simple, just type them into the new Ireland.com search engine.

It’s something I thought I wouldn’t do until next year some time. It wasn’t that I’ve been planning it or anything, but some things just happen out of the blue.

But I know that the sooner I come out the quicker I can get on with things. OK, let me take a deep breath…

The entries this year were outstanding and testament to the strength of the Irish internet industry. These awards provide an important opportunity to recognise and showcase online excellence.

Mr. Cathal Magee, MD eircom

What would you give for a free interview on national radio with Pat Kenny to pitch your latest product? As they say, you couldn’t pay for media like that. Not to mention that it’s free.

And let’s say the primary sale channel was your website – would you try to ensure that this cutting-edge product was heavily promoted on your site?

Unofficial MSN Live! page removal tool. What’s the big deal with that?

Well it’s not only your own pages that can be removed. This is a terrible, terrible hole in MSN’s algorithm.

Have you seen any strange results in Google’s search results? Maybe asking if the link you clicked was useful?

Here are some interesting remarks made by Google’s Director of Research, and a few strange cases of Google soliciting feedback from users.

Yahoo! have launched a new updated version of their mapping technology and Ireland has ‘comprehensive’ coverage.

Pretty good so far

Very interesting find by SEO by the SEA. It appears that your browser is sharing your search history with all and sundry.

Ever wondered who actually does send you all that spam every day?

Meet the culprits.

Two interesting pieces of news from Google today – universal Sitemaps and Mobile Ads come to Ireland.

I wouldn’t have this to write about

What you do with your private website is entirely up to you.

But what happens when it’s a public website we’re talking about?

I just moved servers to a nice dual failover clustered set-up. Should be nice and quick (I hope). So if anything breaks or just seems a bit weird that’s probably the cause

Do you use Google Adwords to promote your website? Could you be spending large sums of money with no chance of making a return?

Quite a lot of sites are you know…

Keyword Discovery is one of the top keyword research tools available. The only problem is it’s expensive. But a new tool launching today lets you access Keyword Discovery’s database for just $9.95 per month. Trial accounts are just $1.

It appears that there may be a critical bug in the latest version 1.5.0.8 of Mozilla Thunderbird.

This bug could result in the permanent lose of data.

We all want them. Visitors have a better experience. Searchers find what they’re looking for. Site owners enjoy more prosperity. And the Internet community have something to pour praise on. So what’s holding Ireland’s websites back?

Beware the Euro Business Directory spam and scam emails.

I’ve had some problems with both email and voice mail *sigh* so if you tried to get me and didn’t hear back I promise I’m not ignoring you.

The full results from the accessibility and standards compliance analysis of all websites short-listed for the 2006 Golden Spiders awards.

Notes to accompany my analysis.

Here are the results for those websites short-listed in categories 13 – 16.