Anyone who uses Twitter must  be blind not to have seen the above hashtag over the last few days.  Yesterday (Thursday 2nd July) it was the highest rated trending topic on Twitter, but what's it all about?

#Moonfruit is looking to be the biggest and most successful marketing campaign to date using Twitter.  The company Moonfruit is a web hosting and web-building site which is currently celebrating being in business for 10 years.

As part of those celebrations, Moonfuit are giving away a MacBook Pro every day, for 10 days to a person picked at random who uses Twitter to Tweet a message which includes #Moonfruit.  The great thing is that this is free to enter, and you can enter as many times as you like – you just need a Twitter account.

Of course this isn't the first company to use Twitter in this way, but it certainly appears to be the first to use it successfully and so effectively. 

What are the downsides?  Well the biggest downside seems to be that with so many Twitterers doing multiple #Moonfruit tweets, the chances of actually winning are fairly remote.  But hey – it costs nothing to enter, and how long does it take to type #Moonfruit into your Twitter feed.  I know that yesterday I got a couple of tweets in while I was waiting for a document to print!

The other thing about this promotion is the the way it has caught people's imagination, and the many different ways they can use #Moonfruit in their tweets.  However for me the best thing is the chance (albeit it very remote) of winning a MacBook Pro, and this is why for the next week or so you'll see plenty more #Moonfruit Tweets on my Twitter Feed.

I've been so busy doing other things I haven't had time to even update my own blog.  So as a blatant cheat this is a piece that I wrote for the Hull LUG Blog, which was published earlier today:

Wow – it’s hard to believe that it’s a month since the last

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There had been speculation the previous day as another forum member who had seen the aftermath of the ‘accident’, and although not knowing who the victim was, posted their concerns on the forum as there were a lot of slalom cones in the road at the scene.

Of course despite (according to thelondonpaper.com), the driver of the Porsche being arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving, the full

Work has signed up to a scheme to encourage people to cycle to work, and in so doing promote health and fitness within our workplace.  Many employers have this sort of thing as an ongoing scheme, however at our place if we want a new bike we have to sign up by 17th July.

Anyway the key thing about the scheme is that it saves us, the employee/cyclist, money.  How it works is, I go out and have a look round the list of

Linux Outlaws is a Podcast about (believe it or not) the GNU operating system(s) Linux.  It's well worth a listen and as well as being a very entertaining program, has quite a following in their forums.  

So what's the big deal?   Well as well as all the usual stuff that goes with an online