Archive for August, 2007

Using Facebook to Improve Your Business

It has now been established that Facebook is new, different and all around cool. But, what is it’s impact in the world of internet business. Can it help you make any money?
Internet Marketers Should Take Notice
Internet marketers are all about people. Social networks, especially popular ones, have lots of people. So, yes, Facebook would be [...]

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Understanding Facebook Basics

OK, after a couple of posts which discuss the impact of Facebook on the web, let’s get down to “brass tacks” here and see what Facebook is all about at the ground level. After all, like about 150,000 people do every day, I recently created a Facebook profile. On the surface, it appears like most [...]

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Does Facebook Represent a Google Killer?

I saw a really interesting (and controversial) viewpoint by Robert Scoble that I thought was very fitting into my look at Facebook this week. He contends that Facebook, along with Mahalo and Techmeme, represent a force that will spell trouble for Google within the next four years. Here, check out these videos by [...]

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Why Facebook Matters

It is really easy to dismiss Facebook as just another social network, likely to go the way of Myspace. Myspace is still very popular, of course, but it’s reputation is tarnished among professionals because of all the really CRAPPY content on there. And, it is true, Myspace has really degenerated a lot, in my opinion. [...]

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This Chick Gets Around! - Stock Photography

It’s so funny. Being that I work online, I get around to a lot of different websites and am involved in a lot of things. And seeing as I am in the business, I can see what other people are doing and many times know exactly where they’re getting it from. Well, stock photography is [...]

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Youtube Launches New Ads, VideoEgg Takes Notice

It really was only a matter of time. Youtube is launching new ads that appear IN the videos. Is this rubbing some users the wrong way? You bet.
Better than Preroll?
As online video gets so popular (and Youtube is the current king in the arena), more emphasis is going to shift to video advertising. Youtube, particularly, [...]

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Allowing HTML in Wordpress Profile Descriptions

This is a short, technical post on how to solve a problem with Wordpress. I realize it will only apply to some, but it is the answer to those who need it.
The problem is that the profile field for authors in Wordpress is very limiting, by default. It strips all HTML out of the field, [...]

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Battle of the Bloggers, Childish as Hell

One of the talks given at Gnomedex was that of Jason Calacanis. He came to talk about the pollution on the internet, i.e. spam. All of us know about this stuff. It includes email spam and, more pertinent to Jason’s point, search engine spam. His point? That so many businesses are out there practicing SEO [...]

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Skype Outage and Implications, Lessons

Well, if you are a Skype user, you are probably now well aware that they experienced a widespread service outage on Thursday of last week. I was not trying to use Skype during the outage, but reports are that people were having problems logging into the network as well as consistent notifications of IMs not [...]

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Twitter a BlowHard Platform?

When I was at Gnomedex, people were sending out “tweets” all the time on Twitter. I found it to be really ironic, actually, considering that my conversations with people usually gravitate to the fact that Twitter is rather useless. But, since bloggers are usually first in line to try the latest [...]

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