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Do you or your organisation make use of the Google Alerts service?

What is a Google Alert? Well essentially it’s just an automated and scheduled Google search of Google News and/or the Google web site index, the results of which get sent periodically to your email address. You get to choose a frequency of daily, weekly or ‘as it happens’ for each alert you set up.

Many individuals have a Google Alert set for their own name, enabling them to find out who has been slandering / praising them online this week, and sometimes why. Also often watched for are the names of loved ones, family, friends, and favourite footy team. Google Alerts is probably perfect for celebrity stalkers too.

Businesses use it to monitor what’s being said online about them, their competitors, supply chain partners, channel partners, their market segments, and so on. It’s a very useful market intelligence tool if you want to use it that way. The possible applications are many and varied, it’s free, easy to use, and here’s but an example. Read the rest of this entry »

Do you own, build, study or have an interest in web sites that goes beyond just surfing? Maybe you just like to keep up to date with new technologies and trends relating to web design and development.

If so, chances are good you’ve already stumbled across Vitaly Friedman’s The Web Developers Handbook. If you haven’t, the WDH is an absolute must-have bookmark. The site claims bookmarks to over 730 resources for web designers and developers across an impressive range of topics, all vetted and useful to practising designers and developers.

Nice design too - very Web 2.0.

I wanted to list on a one single page the most useful web-sites, which make the life of web designers easier. If you ask the old uncle Google where you can find proper web design-instruments he shows an infinite list, whereby “his” links aren’t actually that useful. At the same time really helpful pages aren’t shown at all…

Vitaly has the story on the Handbook and its development in this blog post.

Thanks Vitaly