Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

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mashup* Demo Event Tomorrow!

Hey peeps – just a reminder that I’ll be staying in London for three days starting tomorrow. Tomorrow I’ll be at the mashup* Demo Event and Blognation UK Launch Party and then on Wednesday and Thursday I’ll be at the Future of Web Apps Conference and Expo, which will also include the Future of Web Apps Party and the Live

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Microsoft Launches Startup Fund in UK

Microsoft has launched a UK startup fund called the Microsoft Startup Accelerator Programme. It’s designed to work with startups in the UK that are interested in using some of Microsoft’s products, like Silverlight and Live Services, which is of course Microsoft’s suite of web-based applications. Five companies have joined the program so far, including Ether Digital’s platform for Internet video

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Top 10 Search Keyphrases for September 2007

1459 different keyphrases were used to find my site in September 2007, here are the top 10 with the amount of times they were used plus their overall usage percentage. 1459 different keyphrases Search Percent vtunnel 3393 23.5 % https //vtunnel.com 1530 10.6 % windows 460 3.1 % vtunnel myspace 360 2.5 % vtunnel website 301 2 % sites like vtunnel

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Top 10 Search Keyphrases for August 2007

1203 different keyphrases were used to find my site in August 2007, here are the top 10 with the amount of times they were used plus their overall usage percentage. 1203 different keyphrases Search Percent vtunnel 1078 27.5 % https //vtunnel.com 155 3.9 % sites like vtunnel proxy 109 2.7 % vtunnel myspace 63 1.6 % vtunnel website 50 1.2 %

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The 100 Year Website – online time capsules

Imagine having your own online time capsule in which you could store treasured photographs, audio, video footage, copies of web pages and text, then have them saved for 100 years! You could virtually bury your capsule until your child’s eighteenth birthday as the most thoughtful of birthday gifts, or keep your capsule open for a century so that generations after

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i’m Making A Difference Facebook Winner

Got this message today in my facebook inbox: When we launched i’m Making A Difference, Facebook made an incredibly generous offer. They put up a $10,000 donation, and asked you – the members – to vote on which of our 10 partner organizations should get it. Well, the votes are in. The choice has been made. The money will be

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Untitled J.J. Abrams Project Cloverfield Trailer #1

For those of you that haven’t heard of Untitled J.J. Abrams Project (aka “Cloverfield”) Movie, I thought I’d post the first official teaser trailer here so you can see for yourself what it’s all about, or better said make up your own mind to what you think the movie is all about… as there’s so much speculation out there right

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Chuckle Brothers 20th Anniversary of ChuckleVision

The Chuckle Brothers (Barry and Paul Elliot) are today celebrating the 20th Anniversary of ChuckleVision and wow I can’t believe it’s been 20 years since they first started ChuckleVision on BBC Television, it’s been great watching ChuckleVision through the years! 🙂 For those of you that don’t know what I’m talking about, here’s a bit about it: The Chuckle Brothers,

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New MSN UK Homepage Redesign 2007

For the past couple of weeks or so there’s been a flash page featuring a tour of what the new MSN UK Homepage will look like when it’s released. Well now The MSN UK Homepage Team have finally launched this new and improved redesign of the MSN UK Homepage Portal for all to see at http://uk.msn.com/ Some of the new features include: Wider