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I’m an SEO Analyst at Distilled, with a background as a freelance web developer and as an Artificial Intelligence research student. I blog about SEO and web development. Here you'll also find links to my posts at Distilled and SEOmoz.

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Caching Google Maps Geocoder Results

March 21, 2007 • 39 comments
After my post Geocoding UK Postcodes with Google Maps API I’ve had a few people contact me about caching geocoding results back to a server, for subsequent pages. It’s a good question – Google’s geocoder permits you to make 50,000 queries a day, which sounds likeREAD MORE

Geocoding UK Postcodes with Google Map API

March 4, 2007 • 390 comments
Notice: As a few people have pointed out, this announcement from Google means Geocoding is now built in. Yet as more people have pointed out – it kinda sucks accuracy wise (think over a mile off on some postcodes!), whereas my method continues to be accurate. GoogleREAD MORE

Grow up, Mashup!

September 15, 2006 • 4 comments
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Is 2006 the Year of the Mashup? I think not. Mashups are at the stage that DHTML was at before it matured into Web 2.0 – lots of bells and whistles, but little real meat. 2006 will see people acclimatise themselves toREAD MORE
 

All d.Constructed out.

September 10, 2006 • 9 comments
d.Construct 2006 is over and it seems a great deal of fun was had by all. Lots of people have commented on the day as a whole, so I’ll save repeating what they have said. To read them check out Technorati or Aral Balkan has made aREAD MORE

Morse decoded!

September 7, 2006 • 7 comments
If you’ve been listening to the d.Construct podcast prior to the Brighton based web conference, you’ll know that Jeremy Keith got a strange Odeo message he pondered might be morse code. Well, that one wasn’t, but Jeremy appealed for more Odeo messages, so I thought itREAD MORE

d.Construct – A geek golf tournament!

September 7, 2006 • 4 comments
So, the 2006 d.Construct conference is very almost here. I’ve seen various other posts about the conference. But they seem to be missing the most important aspect of the conference… The geek golf tournament! Yes, this is incredibly exciting – there is a geek golf tournament at the conference afterREAD MORE