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Social Networks

MySpace Doesn’t Have to be Ugly

September 20, 2006

So if you’ve been reading Jim Boykin’s blog you know he recently set up his MySpace Page. Like most people Jim original page … well needed a little help as can be seen by the comments. Since I’m Jim’s MySpace friend and I’m in his “top 8″ I did the neighborly thing and helped him [...]

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Getting Real Friends in MySpace

September 15, 2006

One of the problem with MySpace is getting “real” friends. If you go through any of the really popular people you’ll end up with a lot of shills, but there are ways around that.

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Help Oilman Make the Top 100

September 14, 2006

There aren’t many things as embarrassing as going to an uber-geeky mandatory pocket protector wearing web 2.0 conference and not being uber geeky enough. So in an effort to help Oilman get in touch with his inner geek and have some nerdy bragging rights he’s asking people to help him make the technorati top 100. [...]

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Topp Digg User Leaving

September 7, 2006

Kind of funny all the attention Digg is getting this week, and pissing off their top user enough that he left. Where do I stand on the issue …
Sun Tzu: The Art of War
Strategy Number 5: Loot a burning house.

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Is Digg Rigged?

September 6, 2006

I can’t imagine why some people find this an entirely shocking concept? I mean we all try to teach our children to play fair and that everybody gets an equal chance, but the sad part is once they grow up and become an adult at some point they realize it was all a lie, and [...]

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Suggestions for Google Music

August 16, 2006

Hey Google these things are so simple I can’t actually believe I have to suggest them but anyways here goes:
Pop Music – Clean up the characters I don’t know what sort of “bad data push” threw those wonakdoodle charaters in there but could you get somebody on that. It’s not just the pop music category [...]

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Google Base Is it Self Indexing?

August 8, 2006

I’ve been monkeying with Google Base for a while now, but usually I’m going for stuff that’s off the beaten path so to speak. Sunday night about 10 pm EST I entered a new item and some of the tags I used were a lot closer to the surface. Monday morning I started putting up [...]

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I’ve got a Link Blog, and Why You Should Care

July 7, 2006

I’m sure some of you folks happened to stumble across this or maybe you’ve even gotten a trackback ping or two and seen my link blog and wondered what the heck I’m up to.

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Conspiracy Theory Opportunity

July 5, 2006

Here’s a freebie, looking for a way to get a quick hit of traffic to your political, news, or otherwise offbeat blog? Cook up a kooky half-baked conspiracy theory for this story, comment anywhere and everywhere about it …

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Banned from MySpace

July 4, 2006

While no one likes to get banned or kicked out of anything sometimes you’ve just got to do it to see where the line is. I started an account on Friday, pushed a little too hard in a few too many directions at the same time and got whacked. So it is possible to get [...]

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Promoting Cooking Related Sites on Flickr

July 3, 2006

Even though I may enjoy cooking I know not everyone who reads this blog does, however this post is more about social networking and site promotion using flickr.

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Building Traffic to a Travel Website with 43Places

July 1, 2006

When you are looking for “polluted” areas on the web two that immediately leap to mind are travel and real estate. I don’t think that it should come as shock to anyone that searchers are starting looking places other than search engines for information.

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Suggestions for Improving Squidoo

June 28, 2006

I’ve got a few lenses over on Squidoo, and although I’ve made less than $1 from them and haven’t gotten any meaningful traffic from them, I still think it’s too early in the development stages to give up on.

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Flickr and Travel Agents

June 24, 2006

I’ve got a friend who happens to be a travel agent. She’s looking for ways to grow her business. I suggested she start a blog and a photo journal. She travels fairly frequently and takes lots of pictures, so I suggested every time she travels she write up a little review and post some photos [...]

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Delicious and Flickr Intergration

June 17, 2006

I haven’t delicious bookmarked a lot of stuff from flickr so not sure if this is new thing or not. However since Yahoo owns both Flickr and Del.icio.us a little integration behind the scenes isn’t unexpected and actually works pretty nicely, see screen shot below.

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Web Maps, Video, and Audio for Fun and Profit

May 20, 2006

Over the past few days we’ve looked at a few different ways you use some new web functionality to drive traffic to your website (see How to Annotate Google Maps, How to drive traffic with Flickr Photos, Using Web Videos to Build Traffic). Now I’d like to take look at ways to bring it all [...]

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Using Web Videos to Build Traffic

May 19, 2006

So perhaps you think web videos are the equivalent of America’s Funniest videos, good for a few laughs now and then but not capable of driving any commercially viable traffic. Well friend then I’ve got some examples and ideas for you, so read on …

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How to drive traffic with Flickr Photos

May 18, 2006

While Flickr is really a photo sharing, community building tool, as long as you don’t go completely overboard you probably aren’t going have angry mobs flagging you as spam. Now you could always go the with the babe in a t-shirt approach, but we’re looking for something more sophisticated.

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Google Notebook Review

May 16, 2006

Google Notebooks mentioned in Google Press Day is now live (signup here). The cliff notes version of Google notebooks is think of it as a javascript collection of word processing documents (makes the writely purchase make a lot of sense now).

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Annotated Google Chicago Vacation Map

May 16, 2006

Recently Mrs. GW had to go to the ACCM show in Chicago, so we took the kids along went a day earlier and turned it into one of those mini-vacations. Now before you start unsubscribing thinking I’m going to subject you to the internet’s version of the dreaded family slideshow bear with me a minute. [...]

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