Gnip – unifying the internet’s underbelly?

Via a news post from twitter I came across Gnip (http://gnip.com), a fairly new service with the aim of “Making data portability suck less”. A vast number of commercial and social services on the web rely on passing data around via web services and though the best way to do it, the number of different […]

Google Trifecta recording now available

This article is interesting: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2008/07/google-trifecta-recording-now-available.html What a great introduction to SEO using Google’s free tools 🙂 Last Tuesday, Google hosted an online presentation about three free tools to help analyze and improve your sites. Dubbed “The Google Trifecta,” this presentation explains the key features of Google Webmaster Tools, Google Analytics, and Google Website Optimizer, and how […]

Convert Multiple Spaces To a Single Space

Sometimes you want to sanitise a block of text or input by removing consecutive multiple whitespace entries from it, replacing them with a single space. This php code will allow you to do just that: $message = preg_replace("/ss+/", " ", $message);