The Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Programme Launches in Perth

Today we are pleased to announce the launch of a brand new website in Perth, The Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Programme - www.Frazzled.com.

If you are looking for the combat version of recovering your health quickly, then this is for you. Consider that you have found a personal trainer for your Chronic Fatigue or Fibromyalgia.

These conditions arise from a number of medical issues, biomechanical stressors on the body, and environmental factors that can be identified and eliminated, or at the very least minimized. Exacerbating behaviours can make matters worse, but can be changed so that you recover your health fully.

You will always be susceptible to relapses, however the Perth Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Programme teaches you how to manage your condition’s symptoms effectively with only minimal medications.

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A ‘Cuil’ New Search Engine

Have you seen Cuil yet?

Cuil, pronounced “cool” is the latest Search Engine challenge to Google. However, this 30 man team internet start up has ex Google employee’s on board to help them fashion out a new type of search engine.

The recent launch got big press attention from The New York Times, and focused mainly on their technical credibility which includes search heavy weights such as Tom Costello and a lot of ex-Google staff who are vying to out do and best Google at it’s own game.

Cuil is taking a new approach to search however which seems to be it’s biggest point of difference. Google did much the same thing when it knocked Yahoo of the top of the Perch - Yahoo having always been an information portal Google came along with a nice clean Search page as it’s main page - removing all the noise and making it useful to a lot of people.

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Email Deliverability - Getting Your Email Past Your Clients Spam Filter

How many times have you been told that you’re important email landed in your recipients junk mail folder? Well here is a great article on email deliverability - that is, getting your legitimate emails past your clients spam filter in a reliable way.

Ray Everett-Church from Internet News writes:

With growth rates of spam, phishing, and e-mail-borne malware showing no signs of abating, more and more ISPs and enterprises are implementing stronger protective measures.

Many of these anti-spam techniques are well known to those of us in the e-mail industry tasked with managing “deliverability” – the art and science of getting e-mail delivered to a user’s inbox in a timely and fully-functional fashion.

Ever since the first anti-spam measures began to be widely deployed in the mid-1990s, legitimate e-mails have occasionally been caught in the net and deleted, delayed, or shunted to “spam” folders.

As the economy tightens, many companies are refocusing their advertising and marketing efforts on e-mail, and as a result many enterprise IT managers are getting a crash course in deliverability issues.

As I have noted in many, many, many columns, there are a number of technical and infrastructure issues that can affect a company’s deliverability.

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Australian iTunes & Apple TV Content - We Now Have Movies

This weekend saw the release of Australian content for Movies and TV Shows for all the Australian account holders of iTunes and Apple TV.

We’ve been waiting for sometime to catch up with the U.S. and U.K. who have content since last year. At first glance it looks like we’ve been given access to a pretty decent selection of movies, TV shows and other media - but not quite as much as the U.S. version - of course.

Movies are available for purchase from around $25 - a bit harsh considering the U.S. store sells them for around $12-$15.

You can download rental movies for around $5.99 - also around twice as much as the U.S. who get all rentals for just $2.99 or $3.99 for HD versions.

Buying entire “box sets” are pretty pricey - anywhere between $30 and $80 - again, more than double what you would get on the U.S. version of the store.

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Search Engine Optimisation - SEO - Perth

Amazing how many people ask me “Do you know anyone in Perth that does SEO” - referring of course to Search Engine Optimisation. Perth is a beehive of activity for all things web: design, development, applications, social networking, marketing and indeed yes, SEO.

Unfortunately, SEO has a somewhat tainted reputation, mainly because of all the cowboys in the industry who constantly fill up your mail inbox with spam - promising to put your website on page one of Google in no time what so ever.

Search Engine Optimisation is not a quick fix, silver bullet. It’s all about getting your website listed higher up in the search results from search engines like Google, Yahoo and Live. At the end of the day, if you’re site isn’t being listed in the first few results, research shows that a user is unlikely to check out your site.

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