by Andy Brudtkuhl on February 27, 2009
Do you see all your cool friends using their fancy Twitter plugin on Firefox? Now you can do the same with Internet Explorer…
CloudBerry Twitter plug-in for IE helps you to post excerpts from the websites you visit with a click of the button and attach a short URL to the source page.
Features Include
- Select the text on the web pages and tweet it to your friends
- Add link to the source page with TinyURL
- Add link to the source with Chilp.It
- Install in a few minutes
- Download for free
- No registration required
Download It Today
by Andy Brudtkuhl on February 27, 2009
If you are familiar with Twitter, than you have seen a hashtag before. If not, a hashtag is “a combination of the pound symbol (#) followed by a keyword, generally associated with whatever topic is being tracked” (via Microblink). Essentially, hashtags are a great way to track discussion about specific topics. But there is a problem with these – half the time you see them and have no idea what they mean. #FOWA = Future of Web Apps.. If you aren’t in tune with that conference you’d see thousands of people using it and have no idea what they are talking about.
In steps What the Hashtag?! – a new service from Microblink announced today that aims to help track the origin and meaning of these seemingly random hashtags. So what is this new service? It’s a “user-editable encyclopedia for hashtags found on Twitter” – using the popular open source wiki solution MediaWiki.
It works by finding finding trends on Twitter and generating the page. Hashtags can also be added by anyone who has created an account. So far there have been 480 hashtags indexed in the first seven days of operation. Microblink has also created a number of tools to interact with the service – including a Twitter bot that accepts direct messages, a Greasemonkey script, and a Search Engine plugin for Firefox.
Read the Microblink Announcement
Check out What The Hashtag?!
by Andy Brudtkuhl on February 25, 2009
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5 Reasons You Should Link Out to Others From Your Website
1. Linking Out Encourages Participation
2. Linking Out Incentivizes Linking In
3. Search Engines Likely Reward It
4. It Makes Your Site More Valuable
5. Linking Out Sends Trackable Traffic
tags: seo, web strategy, getanewbrowser
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Google’s New Search Engine Rankings Places Heavy Empahsis on Branding
If you ask Matt Cutts what big SEO changes are coming up he will tell you “make great content” and so on…never wanting to reveal the weaknesses of their search algorithms. Eric Schmidt, on the other hand, is frequently talking to media and investors with intent of pushing Google’s agendas and all the exciting stuff that is coming out. In the last 6 months Mr. Schmidt has made a couple quotes that smart SEOs should incorporate into their optimization strategies – one on brands [15], and another on word relationships [16
tags: web strategy, getanewbrowser, seo, google
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Prospering by Telling Customers to Not Purchase Your Product
Here’s a seemingly career-killing sales tactic: tell your customers they waste a lot of money on the product that forms the core of your company’s business. Good way to land on the next cost-cutting list? For Xerox, this approach has actually created a powerful growth strategy.
tags: business, getanewbrowser
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by Andy Brudtkuhl on February 25, 2009
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by Andy Brudtkuhl on February 25, 2009
