MakeUseOf.com:
We all know some of the well known URL-shortening services such as TinyURL or Twitter’s own Bit.ly. MakeUseOf has also profiled many others in the past. But one of the drawbacks of using one of those URL-shortening services is that the links you’re firing out by email, blog post or Twitter stream to your friends are rathe (Read More)
Delicious/courane01:
If you work with multiple Google acocunts to Track many different Google Analytics profiles then you already know that its a very clumbesom process. Signing in and out of various Google accounts multiple times in a day can be a real pain if you are dealing with a lot of websites of your own or of your clients. Trakken, a co (Read More)
Google Blog Search: "social media":
If you’re relying on Twitter as your social media hub, you’re limiting your potential for impact and influence. Twitter is excellent for distribution, but if you’re going to communicate original ide... (Read More)
Submitted by Mvndrvrt
from Google Reader:
As most of you who follow this blog or any of my updates on Twitter and Facebook, you’ve probably long realized I’ve gone off the deep end into Mommyland and I’ve become an annoying new Mommy looking for any excuse to post pictures her bundle of joy.While I haven’t seemed to be able to completely disconnect, I’m trying to m (Read More)
geeksugar -- Geek is chic.:
Nothing to hide here: from time to time I like to Google myself, just to see what comes up. After all, you never know who's going to search for you from a potential boss to a potential date. Even Kristen Stewart admits to self-Googling, as do a few other celebs. This time, though, I came across one of my outdated social net (Read More)
Submitted by Magitam
from Google Reader:
So. There it was. An iPhone just laying there under the front passenger seat of my cab. Should I pick it up? I knew it wasn’t the taxi driver’s because he was chatting up his friend on his phone while he zoomed me down 5th Avenue. Yeah, I gotta pick it up. Should be easy to just call the owner and tell him/her, “Hey busy gu (Read More)
CNET News.com:
Just eight days after a previous update, Mozilla Firefox 3.5.5 introduces fast fixes for three bugs, one of which was critical. Google Chrome has also been updated for security and stability. Originally posted at The Download Blog
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Submitted by Catepol
from Google Reader:
I've posted a couple of times now (here and here) on useful Google Wave resources. Martin Hawksey, E-Learning Adviser at JISC RSC Scotland North and East, has now sent me two links to postings he has written on the MASHe blog on how to embed Google Wave into Blackboard:Embedding Google Wave into Blackboard - Here is an exp (Read More)
TechSheep:
The Official Google Blog:Introducing Google Commerce Search: Finding holiday gifts faster — The holiday season is right around the corner, so online retailers are gearing up for spikes in traffic. When people go to shop online, search is big part of finding the right product, whether they're looking for a gift or just s (Read More)
SEO Book:
The Free Credit Report ads have caused such user confusion in the marketplace that the government has felt the need to create a spoof site with $100,000 worth of amateur video to mock Free Credit Report.com. And yet even if you search for the official website [Annual Credit Report] to this very day Google is cashing in show (Read More)
New Comm Biz:
Image via CrunchBasePosterous has been gaining a lot of attention lately. Most people see it as a great way to fill that gap between a tweet and a blog. Some people see it as a next generation content management systems for the Web. Other people see it as a lifestream. Whatever you want to call it Posterous is gaining in po (Read More)
SEO Book:
Search marketers know that if the title of the ad matches the searchers keyword query, they stand a good chance of getting the click. This mirroring strategy works for obvious reasons. The visitor already has a psychological attachment to the phrase - after all, they typed it in!Making Sure You Get The ClickA lot of SEO str (Read More)
Online Journalism Blog:
The Guardian has changed its user-generated comment system - moving from a client-side system to a server-side one.With the old system, once you clicked to read a story, the web page would download, and some javascript would run. This would go off and look up readers' comments and display them. This wasn't terribly accessib (Read More)
readwriteweb:
Google just announced a number of major updates to Google Friend Connect (GFC), the company's set of tools that can bring social networking tools and widgets to any site. Today, Google is extending this functionality with a new 'Interests' section that will help a site's visitors to get to know each other, a newsletter tool (Read More)
Career Advice Blogs aggregator:
Within days of introducing Twitter lists into public beta, an estimated 6.5 million lists have already been created. This begs the question, which Dan Schawbel asked on Nov. 1, does it matter how many times you’re listed?As of this writing, I am on 96 lists. Impressive, right? Perhaps, if they were all in line with my perso (Read More)