Daily Digest 11/25/2008
November 24, 2008 by Andy Brudtkuhl · Leave a Comment
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FoxGLove is Firefox for Google addicts - Download Squad
The browser is based on the portable version of Firefox, which means you can run it without messing up your normal Firefox settings. You can also run it from a USB flash drive. At first glance, the browser looks a lot like Google Chrome, thanks to the ChromiFox theme. The home pages have been set to Gmail, Google Reader, and Google Docs, and there are bookmarklets that will open GTalk, Google Calendar, or Google Notes in your sidebar. But that’s just the start.
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Feed Analysis v1.1 Analyzes Your FeedBurner Feeds
The number of subscribers is very useful for bloggers to determine the popularity of their blogs. Yet, blogger like me may hope that the FeedBurner stats can tell us how fruitful our effort results without much analytical calculation on our own. As such, I developed Feed Analysis which can provide bloggers, with the aid of beautiful interactive charts, a more detailed report and analysis from our feeds.
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Watching the Times struggle (and what you can learn)
Page by page, section by section, the influence of the New York Times is fading away. Great people on an important mission, but their footprint is shrinking and the company is losing stock value and cash and power and the ability to have the impact that they might.
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For Laid-Off Journalists, Free Blog Accounts
The TypePad Journalist Bailout Program offers recently terminated bloggers and journalists a free pro account (worth $150 annually) on the company’s popular blogging platform. In addition to the free yearly membership, the 20 to 30 journalists who are accepted will receive professional tech support, placement on the company’s blog aggregation site, Blogs.com, and automatic enrollment in the company’s advertising revenue-sharing program.
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Official Google Blog: SearchWiki: make search your own
Have you ever wanted to mark up Google search results? Maybe you’re an avid hiker and the trail map site you always go to is in the 4th or 5th position and you want to move it to the top. Or perhaps it’s not there at all and you’d like to add it. Or maybe you’d like to add some notes about what you found on that site and why you thought it was useful. Starting today you can do all this and tailor Google search results to best meet your needs.
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Report: Twitter Turns Down $500 Million Offer From Facebook
Twitter has turned down a $500 million acquisition offer from Facebook, according to a report published early Monday morning.
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View embedded blip.tv vides on your iPhone … without flash
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Daily Digest 11/19/2008
November 18, 2008 by Andy Brudtkuhl · Leave a Comment
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11 Ways to Use Twitter to Help Your Site Go Viral
Twitter is one of the most satisfying ways to spread your website or idea. In addition to referrals, you can also gain loyal users, expert opinions, and possibly friends. It’s unlike any other medium in its ability to propagate interesting things. Word of mouth has always been the best advertising and Twitter is the best vehicle on the internet for word of mouth.
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I believe Boxee will be the “Firefox of media center software”. It’s simple to download and install, it’s available on Mac, Linux, and Apple TV. It will soon be available on Windows
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Expanding the Cloud: Amazon CloudFront - All Things Distributed
Amazon CloudFront will be useful for many different application scenarios such as giving your customers low-latency access to popular objects and protecting your site from popularity surges; other popular examples are low-cost delivery of rich media and sustainable fast transfer rates for software distributions.
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Murdoch: The Future Of Newspapers Goes Beyond Dead Trees
Murdoch, the chairman and chief executive of News Corp., gave a speech on Sunday titled “The Future of Newspapers: Moving Beyond Dead Trees.” In the speech, he made the bold statement that newspapers would always be around in some form or other. “Too many journalists seem to take a perverse pleasure in ruminating on their pending demise,” he said. “Unlike the doom and gloomers, I believe that newspapers will reach new heights in the 21st century.”
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Jerry Yang, Yahoo Chief, Steps Down
In a memorandum sent to the company’s staff Monday evening, Mr. Yang, 40, said he would hold the post until the board names his successor, a process he said he would participate in. The Yahoo co-founder said he would then return to his previous job as “chief Yahoo,” a corporate strategy role, and would remain on the board.
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Daily Digest 11/18/2008
November 17, 2008 by Andy Brudtkuhl · Leave a Comment
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Joe The Plumber’s Landing Page
But one problem nags at me. Local merchants like “Joe The Plumber” usually don’t have a web presence and many don’t really even want one. But if you are going to buy cpc advertising, then you’ll need a place for the clicks to go. The local ad agencies and local oriented web services are happy to create a web presence for local merchants, but they are often poorly designed and there’s no standardization of them.
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ROI for Social Media Marketing: It’s Complicated
Know your objectives in advance. Start small, when possible: think “proof of concept.” Track the metrics obsessively. Make sure that your interactive marketing efforts are tied to the sales funnel (e.g., your vp of sales ought to be able to determine where most leads are coming from online). Report frequently.
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Daily Digest 11/14/2008
November 13, 2008 by Andy Brudtkuhl · Leave a Comment
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RSS to Email: 3 Tips To Get You Started
Now that the idea that RSS and email can and should coexist has taken hold, what can bloggers learn from the email marketing world and use to make RSS to email (even more) worth their while?
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Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Google’s SEO Starter Guide
Our Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide covers around a dozen common areas that webmasters might consider optimizing. We felt that these areas (like improving title and description meta tags, URL structure, site navigation, content creation, anchor text, and more) would apply to webmasters of all experience levels and sites of all sizes and types. Throughout the guide, we also worked in many illustrations, pitfalls to avoid, and links to other resources that help expand our explanation of the topics. We plan on updating the guide at regular intervals with new optimization suggestions and to keep the technical advice current.
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50 Simple Ways to Gain RSS Subscribers
Some of these are re-hashed but it’s a great review on ways to optimize your website to increase RSS subscribers
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Daily Digest 11/13/2008
November 12, 2008 by Andy Brudtkuhl · Leave a Comment
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Microsoft giving free software to startups
Microsoft is giving free software to startups around the world to encourage them to develop products that span the Web, PCs and phones, the company said today.
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