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How to change your LinkedIn password

7 June 2012

As you probably know by now 6.5 million LinkedIn passwords were leaked. There’s a good chance that includes yours. CHANGE IT NOW! LinkedIn unfortunately has not made it easy to change your password. Here’s how. Visit www.linkedin.com, and log-in with your usual details Once logged-in, hover over your name in the top right-hand corner of the […]

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Think Less. Do More

21 May 2012

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AfrikaBurn 2012 : A snippet

3 May 2012

As usual there is just so much to say about the AfrikaBurn festival in the Karoo, that starting is daunting. So I thought I’d just relate a little experience I had on day 5 (sunday). This year I rode up to Afrikaburn on my motorbike and registered it with the Department of Mutant Vehicles […]

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NEW SEARCH ENGINE: OUT-GOOGLING GOOGLE.

10 April 2012

Having been an avid Google-Watcher for over 10 years now (and Adwords payer for nearly as long), my biggest gripe with the big G can be explained by the 10 year evolution of the Number 1 Search Results Page. Back when Brin & Page were still genuine, outside-the-box geeks all that appeared on the page […]

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The best advice I’ve ever seen

9 March 2012

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Instapaper + Kindle = Total Winner

19 February 2012

I migrated everything to a new PC this week, and have used the migration to switch a lot of the services I’ve been using. One service which I couldn’t live without was ReaditLater . Basically its a browser extension that does exactly what it says – 1 click and the current page is saved to your […]

Tagged as: GTD, WebApps

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Overwhelmed by Google Analytics – Lessons Learned

3 February 2012

Managing over 14 000 keywords on Google Adwords as I do, is a formidable task. So formidable that I kind of gave up on it for a while, but have recently dived back in. All of Google’s products are becoming increasingly complicated – Adwords, Analytics and Webmaster Tools. There is just too much information and […]

Tagged as: Google, GTD, SEO

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Google schizophrenia: Customised User Sessions with a One-size-fits-all service

13 January 2012

“Search Plus Your World” is Google’s latest play to promote Google+. Basically your personal search results will now be mashed up with topical references from your Google+ stream (unless you opt-out) As usual “personalisation” for improved results is the Google mantra and rationale behind the changes. However, on the other end of the continuum Google […]

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