• Google/Amazon Platform Rant. Pretty interesting read about service platforms at Google & Amazon from Steve Yegge a current Google employee. His follow up post is about working for Jeff Bezos. (0) #

• The Oracle Lawsuit Will End with Google Owning Java. A fairly old article now but it’s still a very interesting view on the outcome of the Oracle vs. Google lawsuit. I see this as a positive outcome if it were to happen. (0) #

Android LifeSaver

Last week I upgraded my mobile from the HTC Magic to the HTC Desire (I might get round to posting a review sometime) direct with Vodafone. While all my contacts, e-mails and calendar entries are stored in the cloud by Google my text messages aren’t and these are equally important to me. Thankfully I came across the LifeSaver app by Tim Bray a while ago and it came in very handy!

It backs up your text messages and call log to your MicroSD card which you can transfer to your new phone and restore them from. Very basic app but it does the job perfectly.

• Initial Thoughts on Oracle vs Google Patent Lawsuit – Miguel de Icaza. Includes some interesting background information. I do hope this gets resolved quickly as I’m a big fan of both Java and Android. (0) #

SEO Update

I’ve been tweaking my theme recently to make it more search engine friendly and it seems to have worked as I’m getting a few hits direct to posts from Google searches. In case anyone is wondering I’ve just made sure the HTML meta tags always have values (using the post excerpt & tags) and that the post title comes first in the page title if applicable. I know there are some plugins I could have used to do the same job however I learnt quite a bit about WordPress themes in achieving my goal. I’m more familiar with WordPress and themes now than I was before anyway.

Does anyone have any other SEO tips they can suggest?