Archive for August, 2007

WTF is up with Twitter?

Friday, August 24th, 2007

First, for all of those not in the know; What exactly is twitter !?
From wikipedia:
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send “updates” via SMS, instant messaging, email, the Twitter website, or an application such as Twitterrific. Twitter was founded in March 2006 by San Francisco start-up company Obvious [...]

30 Day Challenge Brings Social Media to a Grinding Halt?

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

<soapbox>
I won’t go into it too much because I don’t want to jump ahead of anything that Ed may be going over this coming week.
But when you are using social sites, you have to be really mindful of the community you are entering, because they ARE social…
Each site has it’s own expected behaviour. What has [...]

101 Alternatives to Tumblr

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

So apparently a large number of 30DC’rs have run into their first true taste of Internet Marketing… The Inevitable Crash.
Unfortunately it happens occasionally, and I don’t know a single successful Internet Marketer who can’t share a few horror stories of large operations being crippled because of some minute change online.
They say that the online world [...]

30 Day Challenge Update & Musings

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

Content:
3 targetted keyphrases so far on:
1 Tumblr Blog (still active Yay!)
1 Squidoo Lens
1 Previously owned domain (not qualified as part of the challenge, but using for practice!)
I have Google Analytics installed on Tumblr and my own domain.
Social Media:
Using SocialPoster.com I have signed up for close to 40 bookmarking/social media sites. I say most [...]

Cooking Scallops

Saturday, August 18th, 2007

Scallops are expensive, so they should be treated with some class. But then, I suppose that every creature that gives his life for our table should be treated with class. [...]