Juice Mag seeking an executive editor

Juice Mag is now in search for an executive editor to improve the quality of content and help grow the mag into a leading on-line portal for men seeking sexy, creative and interesting content.

Since the launch of Juice Mag, I’ve been playing the editor role myself but to be honest, I don’t enjoy it and I’m not that good at it either! So hopefully I can find someone with experience, enthusiasm and drive to take the magazine to the next level.

The new editor will be responsible for all aspects of content (text, images, captions and headings), managing a handful of enthusiastic writers, generating ideas for content creation, proof reading and working with the design team.

Base salary, site equity and revenue split is available for the right candidate. If you are interested, please email [alitta at juicemag.co.uk] a covering letter, your previous experience with publishing and a few reasons why you think Juice Mag would benefit having you on the team.

Finally joined in the Twitter buzz

I’m a bit late signing up to Twitter as I worried it was going to be yet another distraction I didn’t need. After 24+ hours of using it, I was right

Anyway, it’s kind of cool to be able to add quick links to cool things I find on the web, brag about my poker winnings along with a few thoughts that wouldn’t warrant a blog post here.

I’ve also got each member of my team to sign up and have set a requirement for the non speaking English staff to send 5 tweets per day (yeah, in English) - I’m sure they think I’m evil, but they’ll thank me in 6 months.

If you don’t know what twitter is, it’s basically a micro blogging app whereby you only have 140 characters to write a post with. You can follow others and their latest posts will get displayed within your feed. If that didn’t make sense, check this video out.

If you use Twitter, feel free to add your user in the comments and I’ll follow ya! Likewise, click here to follow me.

Find broken links on your web pages : Free tool

[Up-Date] I have since come across a Wordpress plugin called Broken Link checker that does this job a lot quicker! It’s excellent.

I recently come across a cool application that crawls and detects broken outbound links, and the best part is that it’s fee! Over time every web site will face the same problem, links won’t work as they once did, which ultimately gives a poor user experience if a visitor ever clicked on the link and nothing happened. Broken links can also impact your SEO efforts as the search engine spiders will also crawl those links if the page is indexed and find nothing, indicating your site isn’t well kept.

You can easily fix this with a new tool I’ve come across called Senu’s Link Sleuth.

Here is a screen shot of the software in action:

Yes, it looks very basic but it certainly does the job of crawling every URL on your domain, finding the links and then checking the page/file you link to see if it’s broken, very well. For example, it checked 2011 URL’s on this blog and reported a 370 broken links links that need checking. I’ve fount that you’ll need to double check the links as some are okay when opening them up in a browser, apparently this is due to the sites server configuration.

You can export the data in tab format (.txt) (ctrl+T), then once saved locally open the document using Microsoft Excel to easily manage fixing the links - This will certainly help me as I can now import this into Google Docs and work through the list when I have spare time (and then will have to run the program again on hundreds of other sites )

I’m often asked what SEO tools I use, and I’ve always not used that many - I think a lot of the tools out their give you stats but don’t actually do anything to help your SEO efforts. Apart from using some search commands in Google, Yahoo Site Explorer and Keyword Tracker, this is another I’ll be using.

Can the iphone stop perverts in Asia? Of course not!

According to Nobuyuki Hayashi, a tech reporter based in Tokyo, the iPhone in Japan will be sold with a loud shutter sound when taking images, even if you put the phone in silent mode. The reason behind this is to try and prevent the ever growing problem of voyeurs taking up-skirt pics in public places.

As far as I’m aware, voyeurism isn’t that big in Thailand - The sexpats and Thai guys want the whole furburger, rather than just a bite. However there is one problem that is growing here, and that is guys secretly filming their sexual encounters on their phones and then distributing the home made movies on the net. There is even a film about this very subject that I unexpectedly watched at the cinema a few months back.

I wonder if Thailand will follow Japan and add a shutter sound when the video function is activated?

Poker In Asia And Poker In Bangkok

So you’re now living in Bangkok and are craving for a game of texas hold em’… Don’t worry; you’re not the only one! There’s Not much Poker in Asia but hopefully the following will help you find your poker fix.

I’ve been a keen poker player for around 8 years and one of the things I miss most from home is sitting round a table with some friends playing one of the best skilled based games in the world: Poker.

As gambling is illegal in Thailand, the poker circuits that are here are very risky to play or get involved in. I know of circuits in Bangkok, Pattaya and Phuket but you’ll need to find these out yourself But be warned, if you were to get caught, you’d better have a lot of tea money or you’d find yourself inside a small dingy room with a few nut-cases for a while.

The big poker sites do work here in Thailand, but it’s worth remembering to register your account in your home country as the last thing you want is for your poker provider to deny your winnings due to being located here (I’m not sure they would do that, but it’s not worth the biscuit is it?)

So, let’s talk about where you can play poker legally in Asia… your best bet (no pun intended) if you are based in Thailand is to head over to Macau. You have the Poker Stars poker room located in the Grand Waldo Casino that offer both cash games and tournaments. I hear the surroundings and service, as you’d expect from Poker Stars management, is very good. You also have the option to play texas hold ‘em in The Grand Lisboa Casino (no link, I couldn’t find the web site) that has cash games 24 hours per day. Air Asia fly to Macau direct from Bangkok at very reasonable fairs (from 1,000฿) making Macau the most viable option to get a few hands in from Bangkok.

There are also a couple of places that offer Texas Hold ‘Em in Manila, located in the Hyatt hotel and Casino and the Manila Metro Card Club.

Although poker is illegal in Japan, there are many home based games in Tokyo which are advertised on Japan Poker League (which is sadly only available in Japanese)

If you find yourself in South Korea, you may want to check out the Walker Hill Casino for Hold ‘em.

If you are a high roller, you’ll find the following poker tournaments that operate throughout Asia of interest:

• Asia Poker Tour

• Asian Poker Classic

• Asia Pacific Poker Tour

There you have it, a complete round up of Poker in Asia (to the best of my knowledge)… as you can see, there’s very little action in Asia but I’m pretty sure this will change over the next few years. I’ve got a trip planned to Macau as soon as I’m able to take some time off work so I’ll write an in-depth guide then.

Have I missed any out? If so, please leave them in the comments. Thanks.

Fuji Turns One Year Old

This time last year I bought my missus a shitzu dog, so I thought I’d post some pics of her to celebrate her birthday Her name is Fuji, named after a Japanese restaurant chain here in Thailand. She’s had some ups and downs during her first year, with having to go on a drip for a week due to not eating. She has started to become a bit of a terror with licking our faces when she wants us to get out of bed or when she insists on sitting on my keyboard (I want to get her a Kitty Box but they won’t ship to Thailand ). Either way, I absolutely adore her.

Here she is one year ago, all sweet and innocent:

One year on, she’s turned into a right little madam:

Google Trifecta Recording - Webmaster Tools, G Analytics and Web Site Optimizer info

If you have your own web site and have a spare hour, I highly recommend you watch this video. Although it’s a bit long winded and ideally suited for web beginners, it’s worth watching to learn how you can use 3 great tools that you should be using for your site provided by Google: Google Webmaster Tools, Google Analytics and Google Web Site Optimizer.

I personally have not played with Google Web Site Optimizer as yet but I’m goona give it a woorl tomorrow and if I find anything interesting or of value, I’ll make some notes here.

If you could only read 2 blogs…

Last week I published a post titled My favorite RSS feeds for 2008 However I didn’t include the 2 blogs I read most (in terms for word for word) as I prefer to go directly to these sites. I’m not sure why, but when I have a spare 20 minutes or so I like to log onto the sites and read through the latest. These 2 blogs just happen to be the ones I’d choose if I was ever faced with making a decision of only being able to read 2 blogs. Drum roll please…

TechCrunch covers start ups and internet businesses, they are often first to break industry leading stories, the content is very well written and what can I say, I’m in the start up business myself so I find it fascinating to learn about new ideas and projects people are working on.

I Can Has Cheez Burger published pictures of cats with funny captions. Seriously, if you don’t find the images/captions very funny, we probably don’t share the same sense of humor as myself. Even when I was feeling really poorly last week with a cold, this site still managed to make me laugh out loud.

If you could only read 2 blogs, which ones would you choose? (apart from my blog haha) Please leave them in the comments

TechCrunch Commentors : Your idiots!

Over on TechCrunch (my favourite blog) there is a post regarding Jason Calacanis (an entrepreneur I really admire) switching from blogging to email. I was totally surprised by the comments left on this particular post, most were really negative aimed directly at Calacanis or why TechCrunch published the post in the first place. I never quite seem to understand the logic of these people, instead of moving on to the next post they preferred to waste a minute or two of their time to leave a negative comment. From what I have read so far, this is the primary reason Jason decided to move his blog posts to private email.

This comment in particular made me crack up:

why do people listen to this guy so much? He sold a company to AOL for 30 million and suddenly becomes super internet star.

Then he started a wikipedia knockoff/SEO play called mahalo(which no one uses).

I suppose he’s good at making noise. He seems to be more busy trying to show his face everywhere rather than running a company.

This commenter answered his own question as to why people listen to “this guy”:

He sold a company for $30million - Come on dude, 30 fucking million! I don’t know about you, but I consider $30million for a project a HUGE success!

He’s starting new projects - This is what I really admire about this guy. He’s not sitting on a yacht drinking ice tea, he’s busy working on new projects - He’s got the get up and go that so many people lack.

He’s good at making noise - And that’s a bad thing? Come on…

He’s more busy trying to show his face… PR baby, it’s a powerful tool.

A week off work, fully energized with a new way of thinking

Spending most of last week in bed sick was a blessing in disguise. Over the last month or so I had started to get bored of working, managing and going into the office. A week off work, although a lot better if I had been well, was just what I needed to get my enthusiasm back. Today I was in the office bright and early feeling great, got shed loads of work done and am really looking forward to launching our new product at the end of the month. Sometimes I guess we all need a break from doing the same thing every day for months on end.

I’ve also got a new way of thinking in terms of running my business… rather running a business to make as much cash as possible, I’m now starting to view the business as a hobby. Instead of the pressure and stress of trying to grow all my projects to great heights, I’m now just concentrating on launching projects I find interesting and going with the flow if you like. This is what I love most, launching new stuff, so I’m goona keep doing it… some projects will take off but most won’t… either way, I won’t know unless I try and even if they don’t work out, I’ll have had fun doing it! This also releases a lot of stress and pressure as basically instead of investing my money (all my projects are/will be self funded) into an expensive hobby such as motor sport, I’m investing in web projects! Such a simple shift in mind set has done me wonders.

So, what’s this space for some really wired, wacky, stupid or sometimes cool and interesting projects I’ll be rolling out in the near future

I now feel I’m back sitting on top of the world!