New look and an update on what’s I’ve been doing.

Posted on October 25, 2009

As you can tell if you’ve been here before I finally got around to putting the new design I mostly put together 6 weeks ago when Bill was born, online - It’s been a busy 6 weeks.

I’ve been focusing mostly on Sproozi and looking for some seed funding to try to get another developer on board and really get it off the ground. If you know someone who may be interested in investing in a local search and exploration application – let me know. If you know a Java/Hadoop/HBase developer that wants to work on an exciting new project (at least I think it is) – let me know.

Anyway, I hope you like the new look, it’s basically one gigantic set of dynamic sidebars with widgets. The code is in github if you’re interested: http://github.com/andrewmccall/hemingway.

A post a day for the month of June

Posted on June 1, 2009

Once upon a time I tried to set myself the goal of a post a day forever – it was hard and I failed almost immediately. Forever, it turns out, is a long time. Days, weeks or months later I look back and think, this was supposed to be the future; Where are the flying cars, the robots, my posts?

So I’m going to try an experiment. I’m going to write something here every day for the whole of June. I’m going to try to avoid writing the posts all in a day and scheduling them, because that’s not writing something here everyday.

I’ve just been to BarCamp Leeds 2009, sproozi is coming along well, we’re re-launching GoRoam to focus more on consulting work we do and want to get more involved with, I’m getting involved setting up some coworking, open coffees and other things to try to get more involved and collaborate more with the local entrepreneurs and the digital community in Hebden Bridge; so really there isn’t any excuse, I have enough to say to easily fill 30 days.

So, a post a day for the month of June – Day 1.

I’m loving Zemanta

Posted on October 14, 2008

I added Zemanta to the blog today at lunch time and so far I think it’s great. I’ve gone through and quickly added a links to a few posts, I’m not going to go back and do many but I’m going to use it going forward.

One of the most common pieces of advice you hear about blogging and getting noticed is to link. With Zemanta linking far and wide is a few simple clicks away.

I have no vested interest in Zemanta – I know very little about them. I really just like what it does.

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More time passes

Posted on August 15, 2008

Again, I’m here apologising for letting things slip a little. I’ve been busy and posting has unfortunately suffered for it. I’ve been working hard trying to get things moving for goroam, and it’s been time consuming. I basically spend the last half of last year bogged down with a project and had no time at all to spend on it, so for the last half of this year the focus is really to turn it around, launch a few things and start bringing some revenue in.

Our biggest project at the moment is running an online marketing campaign for Mediqol a medical device consultancy. Our lofty goal is to show up in the first position for the search keywords medical device, short term we’re just interested in optimising the adwords campaigns, and increasing organic traffic for the keywords we know work.

Then there is Citrus – Work is progressing, but we might be looking at an end of the year launch for it. My gut feeling is that we won’t be anything approaching a launch before the end of November.

In the meantime we’re looking into a couple of smaller launches. I have a couple of ideas for tools and products that tie into the Citrus roadmap that we can launch.

I’m going to spend some time this afternoon and weekend writing some posts to get on top of it again.