I often have a bunch of links that I send to friends and family over the week, so I thought I’d copy @brisboune who sensibly does the something similar and start posting them up.

• Seth Godins first Linchpin Video – Gary Vee sixty second video: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2010/02/linchpin-videos-first-in-a-series.html
• Who is using the internet infographic: http://mashable.com/2010/02/02/state-of-the-internet-image/
• Facebook still big: http://www.insidefacebook.com/2010/02/01/facebook-traffic-reaches-nearly-375-million-monthly-active-users-worldwide-led-by-us/
• Virility is all about making your users look cool: http://blog.hellohenrik.com/?p=1870 – via @andrew_chen
• Great notes on customer aquisition: http://andrewchenblog.com/2010/01/31/notes-on-customer-acquisition-and-viral-marketing-from-first-round-capital-ceo-summit
  
• Fifty ways to be more persuasive: http://www.moskalyuk.com/blog/yes-50-scientifically-proven-ways-to-be-persuasive/1624
  
• The Danger of Crocodile Sales (Spot listening vs Talking) http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/02/03/the-danger-of-crocodile-sales/

I particularly like the last and first here. The last point is important, sales is about asking the right questions and building a rapport i.e. them talking not you. The first is Gary Vee who’s rubbing our faces in reality, we can be really great at a small number of things or average at everything.

This is not a blog about Wordpress but sometimes the awesomeness of developers supremely impresses me.

After reading a post on Scobilizer about hot startups to watch in 2010 I came across a company I had come across before called AppMakr.com who allow you for $199 will turn your RSS feed into an app that they will submit to the AppStore.

I thought to myself, I would like to be able to see my blog properly rendered on an iPhone/Android.

Two free ways
Method 1: Install this awesome plugin, activate it. Done

Demo: Visit this site on your iPhone/Android

Method 2: If you don’t have Wordpress go here: http://iphonify.net
*I would use yahoo pipes to set-up a feed to iphonify so that you have control over the source URL/RSS feed(s) and can keep the same

Demo: Check out this very nice link which is aggregating all sorts of Man City news here: http://iphonify.net/MCFC

If you invest any time in your WP blog you should back it up. It doesn’t matter if your host already does it two copies is better than one, especially if yours is stored on your PC or inbox that you have instant access to.

I did this, I’m not very technical and it took literally 60 seconds:
-Download this: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-db-backup/installation/
-Copy the wp-db-backup.php file to /wp-content/plugins/
-Activate the plugin at your blog’s Admin -> Plugins screen
-Take an immediate backup now by hitting ‘Backup’
-Set it to email you your backup as often as you want it hourly/daily/monthly..

*The plugin will attempt to create a directory /wp-content/backup-*/ inside your WordPress directory.
You may need to make /wp-content writable (at least temporarily) for it to create this directory. Most of us I expect use an ftp client like filezilla, right click on the wp-content folder and click file permissions to change them.

Simple. Go do it now!