The long weekend is upon all of us here in the USA. Usually, this means sleeping in, crazy sales and movies. It’s also a perfect time to do some things you’ve been meaning to do all year. So, we’re going to help you with the most important thing for your business. Make your website load… Read more »
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ZippyKid – One year later, history, reflections, and future
Today is a milestone for us, and I’d like to invite you all for a trip down memory lane. According to my records, yesterday was the one year anniversary of the ZippyKid website and company name. I purchased the logo and domain name from Brandstack, on May 22nd 2010. Technically, the company started at SXSW… Read more »
What I learnt at PHP Community Conference (#phpcomcon)
Last week, I attended the PHP Community Conference , it was a chance to connect, and re-connect with a lot of people I interact with on a daily basis on IRC, Twitter, and mailing lists. The conference was organized by Lisa Denlinger, Ben Ramsey, and Nicholas Sloan, with a supporting cast that included the Cake… Read more »
Marketing your dong off.
Samsung today “promised” a 2Ghz dual core phone. I went on twitter and asked “Why?”. I can’t make my case in 140 characters, so let me try here. I’m glad that Samsung will still be around in a year, I’m glad that there will be alternatives to the iOS, Windows, Android, Motorola monopoly/conspiracy. But that’s… Read more »
Stop building mousetraps. A plea to my fellow creators.
Emerson is often misquoted with the saying “Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door”. He never said something that dumb. What he said was: “If a man has good corn or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church… Read more »
Long term goals of ZippyKid
I’ve been fairly busy and quiet for the past few months, I wanted to stop that trend and give people some background on what’s going on. I’m having the time of my life, as some of you know, I’ve been closing down my consulting business, and ramping up ZippyKid. Lately, I’ve been approached by some… Read more »
Buy this today.
I’m not one to tell people what music they should buy, my tastes are usually very different.. something about this Soundtrack has compelled me to make this recommendation. It’s an Amazon Daily Deal, it’s $3.99, it costs less than your venti caramel frou frou… if you’re a fan of Tron, Snowcrash, Hackers.. you’ll love this… Read more »
We're Hiring – 1 Easy way to make Christmas money.
ZippyKid is a WordPress Hosting company, we host websites for small businesses, and A-list bloggers. What differentiates us is that we use WordPress exclusively, and we manage the entire process for our customers. You’ll rarely need to teach someone how to FTP, you’ll be doing the changes for them, or you’ll be making the changes… Read more »
Verizon selling iPads, and what it means, I think.
A Business Wire release went out this morning, talking the iPad being sold in Verizon stores. A couple of things about this: It’s not a CDMA iPad It’s not something you couldn’t do before. It is a sign of negotiations getting closer to finalization between Apple and VZW This is a bigger deal for VZW,… Read more »
Using the square up card reader with iPhone 4
If you have an iPhone 4, a Square up account, and the reader, you need to follow the following directions, in order to get your card to be read everytime. Without this piece of paper, you will get a short circuit every time. iPhone 4 and Square Up Reader
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