Hate being stuck in traffic? get alerts when there’s a traffic jam on your route

Checkmyroute checks your regular journey for traffic problems.  All you have to do is tell checkmyroute where you’re travelling from, where you’re going, the time and days you travel.  Checkmyroute will then keep an eye on any problems that may affect your journey.  If it finds a problem, it’ll email you (or text you if you tell it your mobile phone number).

We think it’s a great way of finding out about a problem before you leave – after all when was the last time you checked a traffic report for a regular journey like your daily commute?

Sign up at www.checkmyroute.com and tell us what you think!

Exhibiting at Connecting for Business – Portsmouth

We are exhibiting today at the Connecting for Business event in Portsmouth.

It is billed as an event to promote Networking for business, with a Keynote speaker, business forums, networking café, networking wall – ideal for any business seeking growth and of particular interest to new business start ups seeking inspiration and innovative ideas.

The datails are:

4 February 2010

11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

1000 Lakeside, North Harbour (The Old IBM building) J12, M27, Portsmouth SAT NAV: PO6 3EN

It is free to attend but a donation to  “Help for Heroes” can  be made on the door

 

This should be a great opportunity for us to show off our SEO friendly Breeze CMS website packages for small businesses, flexible support and custom database development.

Google DNS

Google has just announced it’s public DNS service with some easy to remember IP addresses: 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. Google think by using their DNS it’ll make the web faster.

What is DNS? It’s short for Domain Name System, a sort of phone book for the internet. It turns your website name (ie www.solvd.co.uk) into a number that’s understood by computers and network equipment. Find out more at Wikipedia.

What is an IPS TAG?

An IPS TAG (sometimes called an IPSTAG) is a unique identifier given to each Domain name company (Tag-Holder) with Nominet, the registry for all UK domain names. The tag is used to identify the company responsible for the management of a domain but they only apply to UK Domains like .co.uk , .uk.com, .uk.net, .me.uk .ac.uk and .org.uk.

If you want someone else to look after your domain name you can do this by changing your IPS Tag. To change IPS Tag you need to contact the company where you have registered the domain name and ask them to change the TAG to the TAG of your new provider. You may also have to let the new provider know that an incomming transfer is comming its way.

Google Caff Vs DeCaff comparison

The new Google Caffine engine may well spell changes for SEO and website design work as the new search algorithms take more note of social networking and videos than just plain ol’ text and images. This shakeup could spell intresting times for those people who are in the market of online marketing. The test site is up but you can checkout a side-by-side comparison here. More info on Matt Cutts blog and on the Google Webmaster blog. CMS web specailists like us will have to supply the easy to use tools that will allow the customers to keep ahead of the competion by uploading vids, demos, and getting those followers and retweets.

Testing new SEO friendly blog

Just testing out a new more SEO friendly blog that should push our website design and system development news out to twitter and facebook in a more automated and managed way.

The social media portals are becoming more and more important as time goes on as you customers and friends don’t have to mess around with RSS or visiting your site, it arrives at thier social hub. The blistering growth of twitter and the fact that facebook is the most viewed site in the UK make these tools very useful for small businesses.