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Name: Dan Hanley
Date registered: June 14, 2011
URL: http://www.linkedin.com/in/danhanley

Biography

Dan Hanley is Chief Technology Officer at ActiveStandards, responsible for the development and operations of our platform and client applications. He joined ActiveStandards in 2003. He has over twenty years' industry experience, focusing exclusively on internet technologies. Dan also heads up our innovative R&D program, including our pioneering Semantic Web development. Dan holds a BSc from the National University of Ireland and an MSc from London South Bank University.

Latest posts

  1. CORS support for Internet Explorer 8 and 9 now available in ActiveStandards API — May 13, 2013
  2. Structuring Ajax sites for search engine crawl — July 6, 2012
  3. Pandas, penguins and the quest for website quality — June 27, 2012
  4. Google’s Big Tent Event — May 24, 2012
  5. Making ActiveStandards stronger, more flexible, and even more reliable — April 20, 2012

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  1. Pandas, penguins and the quest for website quality — 1 comment
  2. The gamification of social media — 1 comment

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Dan Hanley

Pandas, penguins and the quest for website quality

Posted: Dan Hanley

June 27, 2012

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Over the past decade, SEO has gone from a “what’s that?” topic to representing a significant slice of the corporate marketing budget as companies fight it out for the top spot in search engine results. The Holy Grail in this struggle, is, of course, the top ranking on Google (OK, maybe second ranking after Wikipedia). …

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The gamification of social media

Posted: Dan Hanley

July 11, 2011

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Welcome to the first in a series of posts on how social media is influencing the world. This week: gamification. Gamification is the process of taking elements from the world of gaming and using them elsewhere. For example, the variable ratio reward schedule – giving your hero a little experience for every few orcs they …

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A year of life in the cloud

Posted: Dan Hanley

June 7, 2011

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It’s exactly one year since Magus moved its operations to the Amazon cloud, and naturally, we’ve been reflecting on how things have worked out. We used to have our servers in the office. This was an accident-prone setup. If you ask our CEO, Simon, very nicely, he might even show you the charred remains of …

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Structuring Ajax sites for search engine crawl

Posted: Dan Hanley

July 6, 2012

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Ajax web development techniques are becoming increasingly popular among developers who want to create innovative, user-focused sites. But while Ajax is definitely at the bleeding edge of B2C web, corporates have tended to steer clear. For one, corporate sites haven’t traditionally been as user-focused as B2C sites. However, the other issue with Ajax is that …

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Google’s Big Tent Event

Posted: Dan Hanley

May 24, 2012

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My invitation to Google Zeitgeist having mysteriously gotten lost in the post, I instead attended the slightly less exclusive Google Big Tent event held at the Grove Hotel yesterday. Unlike the usual business or tech conferences I normally attend, the Big Tent draws its presenters and audience from very diverse fields. Yesterday’s crowd seemed mainly …

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