Im a little confused right now - about 20 minutes prior to me writing this I wrote another entry on my blog. A few minutes later I decided to do a few search on Google to see what came up for the query “pythonsblog”. To my surprise the content of the entry I had just posted only a few minutes earlier was displaying beneath the title of my site in Google’s results.

Correct me if I’m wrong but I’m pretty sure Google used to take a fair bit longer than that to spider a site and update their servers (at least a few days) - obviously not! So is Google updating it’s spidered content immediately?

Does anyone else know anything about this? Is Google updating as soon as their spiders see new content on a site?

The term ‘web 2.0′ has become one of the most spoken yet least understood phrases on the modern internet. It was originally thought up within O’Reilly Media and was used as the basis for a number of conferences in 2004. The term was used to state that the internet had reached a milestone in its lifetime and that it was starting to go through a drastic change. At one of the ‘Web 2.0 conferences’ many web sites were put side by side, compared against each other to see the differences between web 1.0 and web 2.0.

One of the key comparisons was between advertising companies DoubleClick and Google Adsense. With DoubleClick you would pick which categories or topic of advertisements you wish to display on your web site whereas with Adsense it picks them for you based on your pages content. This was deemed to be web 2.0 because it provided a deeper level of customization, not necessarily on the users side but with regards to the service itself. Continue reading »

Pownce, the latest project by Kevin (founder of Digg.com) - I just managed to get in with an account after about ten minutes trying to find a postcode which will work. Unfortunately the current sign-up form doesn’t accept UK post codes so I had to use a US one. That was quite annoying actually but anyway, on to what I was saying.

Ive been playing around on Pownce now for a good 20 minutes and heres what I think of it.

Initial page

Personally I think its a bit too cluttered. Yes it does have structure (3 column layout) but to me each section isn’t clearly defined from the other which means someone who is completely new to this sort of thing may be easily confused. Take a look:

One thing that I do like about it however is that it gets straight to the point and lets you post a message right away. This is a great way of getting people involved with Continue reading »

I would like to introduce you all to the brand new Pythons Blog. I have been looking at this blog for a while now thinking that it lacks personalization and could do with some improvement. From this line of thought I decided to redesign my blog from the ground up. Not only have I brought in a complete new design but I am also introducing a couple of new features. Here is a brief tour of the design and new features.

If you haven’t noticed already, the front page of the blog has been reworked and is now made up of a new layout. Previously I simply had a list of all the recent blog entries on the left accompanied by a menu on the right. Now however I have added a new block at the top which displays the latest post in a more prominent position. Doing this allows users to see what the latest content is easier. To the right of the first post at the top of the front page you will find two new blocks: recent comments and sponsors. Continue reading »

I have decided to put my tutorial web site, TutorialCut.com up for sale.

I have placed it as an auction over at the SitePoint MarketPlace.

See it here

I have just finished up on adding RSS feeds to my site, TutorialCut. I decided to add this feature straight after I had added the ability for users to post comments about the tutorials hosted on the site.

More features to come soon

Its been quite a while since I launched a new content based site so here it is. My latest project is TutorialCut which went live last night.

Basically it is a tutorial index site where you can find a wide variety of Photoshop tutorials.

Take a look - http://www.tutorialcut.com

Im not sure exactly when it happened but I just took a look at my Adsense account and I have had about 1,090,000 advert impressions.

Cool!