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Google and Personalized Search – Collective Data Borg

January 14, 2007

I’m getting pretty in depth in studying the tools and services Google makes available to people with Google accounts. However I came across something today that made me wrinkle my nose and look down over the top of my glasses like my Grandma did when she knew I was telling fibs.

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CrazyEgg Freekin’ Rocks

January 6, 2007

I’ve mentioned CrazyEgg here before but the more I play with it the more I like it. I placed the script on a landing page for social media story today. The way the text was formatted the link wrapped onto two lines. in the clickmap it showed two distinct “hot spots” on the same link. [...]

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Diogenes of RSS

January 4, 2007

Sometimes I feel like Diogenes who walked the ancient marketplaces of Greece looking for an honest man and never finding one.

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MyBlogLog Widget

December 28, 2006

Ok I got the MyBlogLog widget thing going on so you can join my community.

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How Do You Save Pages?

December 17, 2006

I’m a big fan of delicious I use it all the time, and I use regularly to bookmark almost everything. However today I wanted to bookmark something in the New York Times I knew I would want next year. The problem is the NEW YORK TIMES IS STUPID and they put things behind the walled [...]

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CrazyEgg By Niel Patel

December 15, 2006

Since I wasn’t in Chicago last week for SES it gave me an opportunity to catch up on my podcasts. I was listening to Shoemoney on Net Income and he had Neil Patel on talking about Crazy Egg.

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How do I Get Gmail Mail Fetcher?

December 11, 2006

All right so I’m deep in a test of using the Google Customized homepage and Google Reader. If anybody out there in Google Land wants to hook me up with the GMail Mail Fetcher thing it would be pretty helpful.
Gmail: Help Center – How do I set up Mail Fetcher?

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SEO Bookmarklets

December 11, 2006

Since I had a few requests for bookmarklets I use here are a few. If you like them click on the link and drag it to your bookmark toolbar.

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Suggestion For Google Customized Homepage

December 11, 2006

I’m testing using a Google personalized homepage on a second laptop with a 15.4″ screen on 1280 resolution. To give me more screen real estate and make it more like my personal dashboard how about moving the search box up to the left in the corner. It would only give me a few lines but [...]

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MSN LinkForward Bookmarklet

December 6, 2006

If you happened see any of the site review clinics at pubcon you might have wondered how do people look things up so quickly. Lots of people use bookmarklets for quick and dirty type searches. For example say you wanted to to know who a site links to using the new MSN [linkfromdomain] command. So [...]

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Why Advertisers Love Flash and Ajax, and Why it’s Really Stupid

December 2, 2006

Steve Rubel has a smashingly good bit of conversation bait today with The Imminent Demise of the Page View
The page view does not offer a suitable way to measure the next generation of web sites. These sites will be built with Ajax, Flash and other interactive technologies that allow the user to conduct affairs all [...]

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Internet Marketing Tools Review

December 1, 2006

Jim Boykin and the crew over at WeBuildPages have been pretty busy working on a redesign and fine tuning some of their tools, and Jim asked me to take a look at a few of them.

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Don’t Upgrade to Firefox 2 Yet

November 4, 2006

The thing I love about Firefox is extensions, I can customize my browser to work with the extensions I find most useful. However when they upgrade I go through the headache of incompatibility. I thought I had waited long enough but I guess not and spent two hours going through configuration hell today.

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Mashup Testing Results

October 23, 2006

So last week I put out a call for mashup beta testers and got some overwhelming response, thanks to everyone who offered even if you weren’t picked.

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Flickr API Help

October 8, 2006

Does anyone know of resource that shows you how to use flickr’s API that’s written in english so that actual people can understand it. Something with examples is always helpful. This from Flickr is about the most god awful thing I have ever tried to read in my enitire life.

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Looking at Search Video News

October 3, 2006

I’ll admit I’m like the people Guy Kawasaki recently talked with I don’t spend a lot of time watching TV. I watch the occasional Mythbusters, American Chopper and animal planet nature documentary, and a few TV show I run some blogs for, so we’re talking about less than 5 hours a week. Since I spend [...]

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Microsoft Max Review

September 10, 2006

One has to wonder do the folks at Microsoft actually read blogs? Judging by their most recent product release Max, I can only say the boys in Redmond are really disconnected from the way people do things.

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