Golden Blogging

Just noticed this article on the Guardian website: Inside Twitter HQ. An interesting read but not enough pictures! I thought I would dig out some pics to see the work environment of one of my favourite companies.

Pictures were taken from this Flickr set.

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Each week I will be collecting some of the more popular Wordpress related links from Twitter and posting them for your perusal.
1. Wordpress 2.8.1 update available – go and upgrade if you haven’t allready.
2. 21 Popular brands that are using Wordpress – To prove how excellent wordpress is, take a look at the big-name brands [...]

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There are a number of 3rd party tools you can use to manage your twitter followers and people you follow. Whether you want to find new people to follow or remove people who dont follow you back. Here we take a look at the options.
Finding new people to follow
1. Wefollow – A great directory of [...]

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I have just come across an excellent article over at six revisions – 12 Essential security tips and hacks for wordpress, I shall be putting some of these ideas into practice on my blogs from now on.
I have been on the receiving end of a hacker who gained access to my server before and believe [...]

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Publicising your twitter feed on your blog is common practice nowdays as the two work well together – you can gain more followers from your blog and gain more readership of your blog via twitter. To spice up the link to your twitter feed, a good way is to include a graphic with the link, [...]

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It’s not often many people will see your wordpress login screen unless you have a multi-author blog but its still a nice touch to customize your wordpress login screen to match the branding of your blog. This is also handy if you have built a wordpress-based site for a client and want to give it [...]

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I couldn’t do without my iPhone – its near enough the perfect gadget for me, I took delivery the other day of the latest iPhone 3GS so now I can blog on the go. There are a number of apps available which cover all the main blogging platforms so in this post we’ll be taking [...]

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Blogging is a great way to make money online and one of the best forms of monetising your blog comes from being an affiliate and recommending other people’s products. Managing links and banners by hand can be a pain, especially as your blog grow in size so in this post we take a look at [...]

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Wordpress as an opensource blogging platform does have good SEO out of the box but it can always be tweaked to make it even better – in this post we look at 10 free plugins to enhance your SEO efforts and help you get those top rankings!
1. All in One SEO pack – one of [...]

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Utilising twitter is a great way to drive extra traffic to your blog, in this post we look at the 10 best plugins for wordpress that integrate twitter with your blog.
1. Tweetmeme retweet button – “The retweet button is for website and blog publishers that want to encourage their audience to retweet their content on [...]

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