by Andy Brudtkuhl on April 30, 2009
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9 Ways to Make Your WordPress Blog “Smart”
The point here is that having the ability to morph your blog per visitor activity can assist you in meeting your conversion goals (whatever they may be). A list of popular posts is quite a simple feature, so let me take you to another level by showing you more ways to make your blog smart.
tags: getanewbrowser, wordpress, plugins
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Facebook Talks Ad Network Plans
A source familiar with Facebook’s long-term strategy tells us the startup “definitely” plans to eventually build an ad network on the back of Facebook Connect, the service that allows users to sign-in to participating third-party sites using their Facebook accounts. The idea is that Facebook would be able to sell ads for third-party sites, targeting them using all the anonymous demographic and behavioral information it keeps on its users.
tags: getanewbrowser, facebook, advertising
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by Andy Brudtkuhl on April 30, 2009
Apparently, No. From the New York Times “Panel Advises Clarifying U.S. Plans on Cyberwar“…
The United States has no clear military policy about how the nation might respond to a cyberattack on its communications, financial or power networks, a panel of scientists and policy advisers warned Wednesday, and the country needs to clarify both its offensive capabilities and how it would respond to such attacks.
Don’t worry – they have a plan.
Pentagon and military officials confirmed that the United States reserved the option to respond in any way it chooses to punish an adversary responsible for a catastrophic cyberattack. While the options could include the use of nuclear weapons, officials said, such an extreme counterattack was hardly the most likely response.
So rather than addressing the situation at hand – cyber-security – we drop blanket threats basically saying, If you attack our information infrastructure, we will nuke you.
by Andy Brudtkuhl on April 29, 2009
by Andy Brudtkuhl on April 29, 2009
I used to love my Windows Mobile phone – until I got an iPhone. That aside – Microsoft has not given up on trying to innovate in the mobile space.
Via their press release…
The new service puts many of the most popular phone functions behind a single button. Windows phone users just press the side button of their phone to:
- Send a text by saying “text” to open a text box, then speak the text message and send to call anyone in their contact list
- Initiate a call simply by saying “call” and then the name of anyone in their contact list
- Search the Web with Microsoft Live Search by speaking your request, such as “weather in San Francisco, California”, “Pizza in Kansas City” or”mother’s day gift ideas”
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by Andy Brudtkuhl on April 28, 2009
I find myself clicking “Mark All As Read” a lot when I succumb to information overload. I used to make myself read all my subscriptions. Nowadays if I’ve missed my Google Reader for more than a few days I assume anything relevant or pressing will bubble up on Twitter, FriendFeed, or Feedly. These tools are becoming increasingly important in consuming information – moving beyond communcation platforms.
How do you handle information overload? Just give up and “Mark All As Read”? In a future post I’ll discuss systems I’ve setup to automate a lot of the filtering process for me – yet I still have trouble.
