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Netscape Closing Down Social News Site?
2007-08-10 17:54:00
I think not. Much of this rumor mill was started on TechCrunch, and has grown to a debate all over the place on Digg, Sphinn, and even back to Netscape . While I’m usually a big fan of what TechCrunch has to say, this time, I have quite a few problems with the article.
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Starting a blog: How do you Measure Success?
2007-08-07 20:38:00
I’ve been asked before how you know when your blog is successful. That question means different things to different people. Here are my thoughts on how you can measure the success of your blog: Others appreciate your posts. For me, the fact that someone found my blog and asked to think that means that my blog is successful. Ability to share expertise in life / business experiences. Writing about something that you believe in and sticking with it may be enough for some. But to give that knowledge over to someone else is another level of success. It makes you money. Making money online is a great thing, and making money writing about what you love in a blog can be incredibly satisfying. Unfortunately, the majority of blogs don’t make much money. Pronet does a good job detailing out a study by the University of Texas and Chikita in showing that the top 50,000 blogs generate $500 million (according to 2006 data). Popularity. Blog ging doesn’t usually make you a ...
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Starting a Blog: Have a Topic in Mind and Stick With It!
2007-08-06 18:04:00
So you’ve started blogging and have several posts out there. It is good to have a mix in your content, but unless you have a specific topic in mind, it is likely that you won’t be able to hold your audience’s interest. If you have any hope on running a successful blog (we’ll define what success on a blog is later), you must keep posting. The most important thing to keep in mind is to not get discouraged. If you see that you haven’t posted for a while and your stats are going down, don’t obsess about stats - it’s time to post! Aliza Sherman Risdahl, author of The Everything Blog ging Book makes several good points on the topic, including: “Allotting an hour a day to your blog is helpful, but even if you can only spare thirty minutes, you can still make it work.“ I assure you. Everyone gets writer’s block. It happens to all writers at some point, so why not you?Here are a few ideas to get the creative juices flowing:...
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Blogging Tips Meme
2007-08-06 17:03:00
Looks like I’ve been tagged! While I’m not usually a big fan of these lists, this one appealed to me in particular as I’m in the middle of writing up a series of blogging tips. —-Start Copy—- It’s very simple. When this is passed on to you, copy the whole thing, skim the list and put a * star beside those that you like. (Check out especially the * starred ones.) Add the next number (1. 2. 3. 4. 5., etc.) and write your own blogging tip for other bloggers. Try to make your tip general. After that, tag up to 10 friends! Here are the tips! 1. Look, read, and learn. http://www.neonscent.com**** 2. Be EXCELLENT to each other. http://www.bushmackel.com***** 3. Don’t let money change ya! http://www.therandomforest.info**** 4. Always reply to your comments http://chattiekat.com***** 5. Blog about what you know & love. http://sugar-queens-dream.blogspot.com*** * 6. Don’t use filthy language-buy a dictionary. http://shinade.blogspot.com** 7. Whenever possible, s...
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eBaum?s World Acquired for $17.5 Million
2007-08-04 00:57:00
HandHeld Entertainment has announced that they have acquired Rochester, NY based eBaum’s World for $17.5 million. eBaum’s world has been very popular in the user-generated content (UGC) area, serving up jokes and prank type material since its inception in 1998.  Due to all of the latest Web 2.0, social news, and probably the fact that it ...
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Kids Sure Know How to Use the Computer These Days!
2007-08-03 22:11:00
Boy, they start young on the computer these days As I’m winding down the day here, my 4 year old sat at the computer today and started blasting me with Skype IM’s. Like this: Couldn’t resist sharing this one!
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Starting a Blog: Fit Your Personality
2007-08-03 18:19:00
Similar to my prior post on selecting the right blog platform, today I’m blogging about finding a blog platform that best fits your ability and personality. It seems that some blogging communities are more heavily focused on a particular topic than others. Tech Blog s Typo seems to mostly be used by technical people (example: Robby on ...
More About: Persona , Personality , Sona , Ality

IM Street - New AIM Bot
2007-08-02 17:54:00
IM Street is the latest addition to AOL Instant Messenger chatterbots. Similar to the invasion of new bots, IM Street now was added in automatically to users’ buddy lists worldwide. While it doesn’t have a personality like some of the other prominent bots such as Smarterchild and Spleak, it is a great resource. ...

Starting a Blog: Selecting the Right Blog Platform
2007-08-01 18:58:00
In my previous post, I spoke briefly about the 7 basic steps on starting a blog. This time, I’ll go into more detail on finding the right blog platform for you.There are a lot of blog platform choices out there! Before pulling your hair out, keep in mind that most of the major blog ...
More About: Blog , Platform , Select , Sele

Starting a Blog: 7 Basic Steps
2007-07-31 16:48:00
Having just moved over from my Wordpress hosted blog, I thought I’d start up a series about blogging. I’ll include some lessons learned along the way here as well. So you’ve heard about blogs and you’re ready to take the big plunge? Good. Here is my top ten list of things to do to ...
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Disable Snap Previews
2007-07-26 18:03:00
By popular demand, I have disabled snap previews on my site (not over the whole world, like breaking the Internet). For those of you that like the Snap preview, I haven’t heard from you. Comment here if you really want it back. By the way, there is a way to disable Snap previews for all sites. ...

Wikipedia vs. Encyclopedia Britannica
2007-07-25 09:52:00
Javipas reported on Slashdot that there is a Wikipedia post that points out the errors in Encyclopedia Britannica. Imagine all of those student book reports that had information so clearly defined as fact from the source proven wrong by Wikipedia by using The Wisdom of Crowds. Let’s step back a bit…way before Wikis, and even ...
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You Broke the Internet!
2007-07-25 07:51:00
This great video from the Onion made me think of my old network admin days when I used to tell people that they broke the Intern et (would sometimes get a concerned look I love the bit about the deletion of blogs and that people are going to the streets to hand out emergency diet ...
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The Human Touch
2007-07-23 07:13:00
(Source: Wikipedia) Remember playing Monopoly - the capitalistic real estate game continuously popular for over three generations around the world? Who was the designated banker when you played? Who hid a stash of money under the board for the big reveal when bankruptcy loomed? Did house rules allow inside trading? ...
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Netscape is Better than Digg
2007-07-19 18:47:00
or, at least in my opinion it is.As the new version of Netscape is just over a year old now, it seemed like a good time to fairly compare Netscape and Digg , the 2 most popular social news media sites. Pronet did a good job going over the basics of Netscape, as they did ...
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37signals: Basecamp and Highrise Single Sign-on with Open Bar
2007-07-17 00:58:00
37signals Single Sign -on 37signals has just announced that Basecamp and Highrise accounts can now be accessed via single sign-on. I don’t know about you, but I find this to be one of their best improvements yet. Why? It is just a waste of time flipping through accounts on different windows / tabs. Why ...
More About: Open Bar , Open

Stumbleupon + Technorati + Del.icio.us + Flickr = Xoocle, an Interesting Ma
2007-07-15 13:11:00
Xoocle, an interesting Stumbleupon mashup (currently in Alpha mode) has been created by Thanassis.  Simply enter your Stumbleupon username, and you are then given a listing of all your SU tags.  The first tag will automatically do a mashup on that tag against other popular social networking sites - technorati, del.icio.us, and flickr. This is a ...
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Chipin.com - Interesting Way to Raise Money
2007-07-13 11:53:00
Chipin.com is becoming more and more popular lately. This neat web 2.0 site is tearing up the donations track. What’s that you say? Donations don’t sound exciting? The only news that you want to hear about has something to do with the Bush Administration or the iPhone? Guess again. Yes, Chipin is making it easy ...
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Trading stuff for free vs. Free stuff
2007-07-10 11:26:00
Trading Stuff for Free Swaptree is a great service that I came across recently. It lets you trade books, music, movies, and games with others for free. You tell the system what you have, and it figures out what you can get in exchange. Note that it supports one-for-one item trades only. How it ...
More About: Free Stuff , Trading

SaaS / Software-as-a-Service
2007-07-06 00:29:00
SaaS / Software -as-a-Service When I buy a plane ticket, I buy a ride, not the whole airplane. This is an economic axiom, and, at business school, I learned this concept as a First Cause. We are thankful that, yes, the analogy breaks down: Software-as-a-Service is most certainly not beset by the problem of ...
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Happy Independence Day!
2007-07-04 13:57:00
Mr. Skelton speaks for himself. No commentary needed.  Source Lone Star Times
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Welcome to Zombo.com!
2007-07-04 12:51:00
It has been out there a while, but zombo.com is worth taking a look at. This site is a parody of the dot com boom of the late 90’s / early 00’s, as it pretends to be featuring a product and all the amazing things that it can do - only if just loops through an ...

Health Insurance for small businesses: HDHP, HSA and more
2007-06-29 04:47:00
A month ago, Jenny Thomas checked into her local hospital to deliver her first child. Unanticipated complications necessitated an emergency surgery. Fortunately both she and the baby were fine. But if it hadn’t been for her family’s health savings account (HSA), she could have ended up owing the hospital tens of thousands of dollars. (full ...
More About: Health , Insurance , Health Insurance , Small , Small Businesses

Will blog for food
2007-06-28 13:22:00
(source: DoshDosh) DoshDosh has posted a great listing of paid blogging websites. She speaks of the more commonly known sites such as PayPerPost.  I wonder how many people are really trying to blog as their sole existence.  Most are probably juggling between full time and part time jobs and are looking for a little supplemental ...
More About: Food , Blog

37signals: Basecamp / Highrise Review
2007-06-27 20:32:00
I’m a huge fan of 37signals. For those of you that are not familiar with them - in their own words: “We?re a privately-held Chicago-based company committed to building the best web-based software products possible with the least number of features necessary. Our products do less than the competition ? intentionally. We?ve been in business ...
More About: Review , Basecamp , Rise , Base

Old School Software Versions
2007-06-26 06:52:00
Staying on the same thread about my post on the evolution of Apple over the last 30 years - if you’re like me, you get used to the the look and feel of your apps. Then, all of a sudden, and sometimes completely for no reason, the program gets an “update” - killing everything ...
More About: Software , School , Old School , Version

Evolution of Apple?s Products
2007-06-26 05:59:00
Edwin Tofslie put together a fantastic visual of all how Apple has evolved as a brand over the past 30 years. Sometimes a picture says a thousand words: I have fond memories of that good old Apple IIc. Anyone else think about BASIC from time to time? Old school favorites such as Lemonade ...
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Trillian, Competition, and Chat Widgets
2007-06-24 10:43:00
Trillian Updates The folks at Trillian appear to be pretty busy as of late: They won a CNET Webware 100 award. Also, they have released version 3.1.6.0 and have just released build 46. Competition All this is great news for Trillian. Only one problem. They aren’t the only big boy in the multi-protocol instant messaging client space anymore. Products such as Meebo, Imeem, and Pidgin, (formerly known as Gaim) are also very popular these days. Multi-protocol instant messaging is perfect for those that do not have the patience nor the time (not that anyone should bother) to load up MSN, AIM, Yahoo, Miranda and many others and then try to switch between programs and have their buddy lists all over the place. Rolling all your im account into a single platform is great, but doesn’t get rid of the recent invasion of the AIM new bots again as I previously posted. Trillian is hard at work on their new product, Trillian Astra. It is currently in Alpha mode (you c...
More About: Chat , Widgets , Trillian , Trill

shiurimtogo.com - new site for mp3 torah lessons is live!
2007-06-21 04:29:00
Although we launched this site a little while ago now, it was right before the start of this blog and is worthy of mention here. Shiurimtogo.com is a collection of shiurim (Hebrew for Jewish lectures on torah, or Jewish topics) available for download in mp3 format. This is perfect for the commuter that is looking to learn during these otherwise unproductive moments. Some of the shiurim are free, while others are on a pay per download basis with a PayPal back end. Samples are also available. We did an entire administration build for this client, giving them the ability for adding new speakers, new shiurim, and to dynamically adjust information. Our custom design also makes it a pleasure to look through the different shiurim choices. Congratulations, Shiurimtogo!
More About: Site , Live , New Site , Lessons , Esso

Peter Answers - Interactive Souls Engine
2007-06-19 11:51:00
PeterAnswers , the self-touted “Interactive Souls Engine ” and “virtual tarot” is really no more than a fancy prank.Spoiler warning…read on for more info
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