The guys and girls at google do like to have fun. Yesterday in their robots.txt file the included the following code (in fact it’s still there, but probably won’t remain there for long).
User-agent: Kids
Disallow: /tricks
Allow: /treats
And last year they also had a special edition :
User-agent: zombies
Disallow: /brains
The mediadonis memoribilia ebay auction has ended, and it has been won by the Munich iPhone developer Hans Schneider. Hans has donated €50 to the charity in return for the two items, and we will match the bid to bring it up to a nice €100 for the charity. Thanks to marcus tandler for indirectly supplying the items, and to Julian Dziki for being a good partner in crime 
I hope Hans enjoys his prize !
Richard Hearne from RedCardinal is offering some free consultation again. A while back he offered some tips to the short list of the Irish Blog awards , and now he is offering to help some Irish online businesses, to analyse and optimise at their conversion performance. He’s also offering the help of two great Irish developers, namely James Larkin and Jason Roe, for the programming and graphic parts of the tests. All he asks for in return is that he can use your data in case study. Overall the package is worth €3,000, and has the potential to make your business more profitable in the long run.
If you have an online shop, or sell items online and you want to increase your sales rates, then this will probably be right up your street. Right now Richard is only offering this to 5 Irish companies, so be quick.
Last week, Fran from MadeInHollywood was looking for some ideas on what to blog about. Being the ever generous person he offered to send some samples of what they make (they make foam cut outs) in return for some ideas on what readers of their blog would like to see. Today I picked up the foam letters, which look really nice. Thanks Fran !
MadeInHollywood has worked with some interesting clients like Arnotts and An Bord Gáis
