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Digg Effect - In Living Color
A few days ago, I posted an article saying that I got “Dugg”, meaning I got an article onto Digg.com and it sent me a big traffic spike. This was for an article called “Can Linux Replace Windows?” published over on PC Mechanic. I thought I would share with you the stats from the Digg [...]
TubeMogul Offering Video Posting to Multiple Sites
Anybody in the online video arena probably posts to multiple video websites. Or tries to. The problem is that it is usually a pretty arduous affair to get this done. You have to have profiles on each video site and then individually post to each one.
To get the most bang out of your online videos, [...]
Is Twitter of Any Use to Anybody?
Twitter has turned into a bit of a phenomenon. The site has earned a love/hate relationship among bloggers, usually with them trying to figure out if the thing has ANY use at all. Well, that’s a good question. I saw a post over at LifeHacker that asked Is Twitter Worth Your Time? I was curious [...]
Youtube Offers Custom Player and Other Goodies
I was over on Pirillo’s blog and I saw a quick mention of a new video player by Youtube. I logged into my account and, sure enough, they’re announcing a few interesting items. You Youtube’ers will like this.
Custom Player
You can now create a custom Youtube video player. You can give it a custom color scheme. [...]
Ultimate Guide To Running Your Business From Anywhere
One of the beauties of running an internet business is the ability to work from anywhere. Additionally, recent reviews of the 4 Hour Work Week, by Tim Ferris, has created renewed interest in the idea of being able to run a business from anywhere. One of the things he talks about in [...]
Google’s Empire Expands into Phone Service
Whenever there is money to be made with something, Google swoops in and buys it all. That’s my observation now that it seems Google has just acquired GrandCentral.
GrandCentral is a cool service. I have not personally used it, but it claims to be able to combine all of your existing phone accounts into one managable [...]
Google Free Tools Keep Getting Better
Google is the king of free web-based tools. I make routine use of Analytics, Gmail and Google Docs. I am also using Google Groups for a new group for WebbyOnline. I have used Google Webmaster Tools for site diagnostics. In short, I’m a big fan of Google.
Google Docs Sports New Features
This morning I logged [...]
How to Use StumbleUpon to Promote
A few months ago, I signed up for StumbleUpon. I downloaded and installed the toolbar on Firefox and started surfing. Pretty cool. However, I had seen a few people talking about using StumbleUpon for promotional purposes on their websites, with apparent success. Some were talking about driving thousands of visitors PER DAY to their sites [...]
The Importance of Surveys, SurveyMonkey
I recently signed up for an account at SurveyMonkey after re-realizing the importance of surveys. Here’s the story…
My largest site, PC Mechanic, has actually been seeing a slight, but steady decrease in overall traffic. Nobody in this business likes to see decreases in traffic. Sure, all sites vary up and down on daily traffic, [...]
Verizon FIOS Review
As anybody in this business will attest to, fast internet connections are a requirement of doing work. There were the days when I ran this business over a dial-up connection. It wasn’t by choice either. One move I made when I was younger ended up with me on dial-up AFTER having had Roadrunner. Trust me, [...]
