2012 Goals and Resolutions
Yup, that time of year again to jot down the things I’d like to change from the previous year and also what I’d like to accomplish over the next 12 months. Here it goes…
2011: It’s been a big year, so far
As with every year, at the beginning, you look ahead and envision yourself in a much better situation at the end of the year than it always turns out.
That being said, it’s always good to aim high and you’ll always accomplish something satisfactory.
It’s been frustrating at times working online. You read daily stories of overnight millionaires in new startups and all you want is a piece of it. Read the rest of this entry »
2 Months Of Decluttering
During my recent trip to Indo, it really dawned on me I was spreading myself too thin and not focusing on more solid projects.
I also realized everything around me in my day-to-day life was unnecessarily busy and I really needed to declutter when I returned.
Riding on Traffic Spikes
Often we get excited when traffic spikes on our websites. Hearts start pounding and our imaginations run wild picturing the new found future of the website.
To define this term, a spike in traffic is when there is a major boost in website traffic and it goes back down to normal shortly after, forming a sharp spike shape in the stat timeline.
The problem here, and I’m guilty of this too, is that when the emotions are high we tend to ride on this spike. “The site is now doing well”, “Traffic is pumping”.
Kurt Cobain Journals
A few close mates and I have officially started posting in the “Kurt Cobain Journals”. In simplified terms it’s an ongoing (big) birthday card.
Twitter Idea: The Mute Button
So you’re pretty happy with your twitter feed and the people you follow are posting useful info. But sometimes you get those users that decide now is a great time to clog up your wall.
Examples:
- Someone decides to tell you exactly what they are drinking at the pub, starting with 5 updates before they go out
- Someone gives you their feedback after every contestant in Idols
- As someone adds an ingredient to their meal
- Jamie O’Brien has had one too many Red Bull’s and starts tuning the world
- Two people you follow start a convo in your feed, perfect for their own chatroom
- CricInfo decides to give you over by over reports on a match between Zimbabwe and Kenya
Ok blah blah, you get the point… The idea is simple:
You visit the annoying users profile (you don’t want to permanently unfollow) and hit the “mute button”. This pauses/removes the users updates from your feed for 12 hours, the perfect amount of time until their binge is over, food is cooked, cricket match is over. So you’re left in peace without having to refollow their profile, updates simply continue 12 hours later with no harm done to anyone.
Simple.
Idea Bin: To Do Liiist
Truth is, every person who works online has once in their lives thought of creating their own to-do-list application.
This idea was meant to tie in with my previous Idea Bin entry, Reminder To Me, but as you can see they both found themselves in the idea bin:)
My idea was more about a fresh concept in task vs idea management opposed to creating another to-do-list app which the market is definitely not crying for.
Below I’ll explain exactly how the idea works and why I’m not rolling it out as an online app. You can totally use this idea on paper yourself, I do on a daily basis and it works really well.
Introducing mmminimal – Tastefully Simple.
I’m proud to announce a new site I’ve launched with D Rock showcasing designs and articles on the concept of minimalism. It’s a subject that really excites me so working on this has been a load of fun. The site is called mmminimal and we plan to release a free WordPress theme of the mmminimal design soon.
Idea Bin: Reminder To Me
I’ve been promising it for a while and it’s finally here… the first post in the Idea Bin category, the binning of ‘Reminder To Me’.
For those of you who have recently joined my blog, the ‘Idea Bin’ is a place where I can bury my bad (awesome-at-the-time) ideas. I’ll explain where I thought it had it’s appeal and you can have a good chuckle or maybe even add some input to improve on the idea.
Add a Tweet Button to each Post in a WordPress Archive page
After not finding a simple solution online, I recently put this simple job on oDesk and got back quotes for 3hrs, 5hrs etc. Surely it’s a couple lines of code I thought. So I took time this morning with a fresh head, tackled it and it landing up being super easy. Here’s a 1 minute tutorial.
Basically you just slam in the WordPress code in the custom ‘Title’ and ‘URL’ fields in the Twitter code generator on their site.