I am not a very social guy in real life. Regular readers can tell this through some of my posts. I don’t like malls. I choose the booth at restaurants because those tables in the center make me feel like I’m on stage. And I don’t make small talk unless I have to. In fact, I don’t talk that much at all except when I’ve been drinking.
Posts Categorized: Web 2.0
Automatic Speedlinking with Delicious
I noticed the other day that my feeds stopped showing my delicious bookmarks. Every they would post automatically but only in the feeds. So I checked delicious.
They changed how they post your bookmarks. Now you can post them to an actual blog post with trackbacks. So by adding your comments to your description, you can create speedlink posts from your bookmarks throughout the day and delicious will post them to your blog whenever you choose. You can choose a specific category to post to if you want. Mine are in "Findings". I’ll have to rename that one.
The Ever Project
Squidoo is branching out to yet another site, ever.com. The concept: build a site like smartest.seo.ever.com. I can already tell that marketers are rushing to fill their dashboard with pages before everyone else gets to them. Me, I have to wait until the weekend. It uses a magic page builder like Squidwho or Squidvids.
You can choose from about 50 superlatives for the first word and add anything you want for the second word in the url. You are then taken to a page where you add reasons why you chose someone or something as the best, worst, funniest, etc. thing ever. Then pagebuilder takes off and builds the page for you. What comes out is a basic Squidoo type page with a newspaper look.
Bookmarking Your Own Posts
I have been slowly working my through the free ebooks I have found lately. Right now I am in the middle of Authority Black Book by Jack Humphrey. It is a resource book based on the techniques listed at a post over at SeoFeed. Jack Humprey wrote the ebook Power Linking a few years back when I was just getting started in internet marketing. It was actually a great book for the time on getting links to your site to build traffic. Authority Black Book covers the same territory but from a blogging and web 2.0 aspect.
YourStreet Beta
I got an invite to Yourstreet beta today. I thought, "Cool, I’m special", until I realized that I signed up for the invite a while back.
On the top there’s a map that you can drag around on or zoom and resize. There are three types of markers on the map: news, conversations and neighbors. You click on any one of these and get details. You can also choose whether to see news from today, the last week, the last month, or the last three months. Below the map are listings of the local news stories.
Recommended Tags for WordPress
Recommended Tags for WordPress – CyberNet News
- It only takes one click to add a tag
- Tags are intelligently recommended based on the content of the article
- Optional: Tags can be “exploded” so that the tag name is broken up into individual words. This will let a tag called “Windows Vista” be recommended even if you only mention “Vista” (note that it is without the “Windows”) in your article.
- Optional: Common plural/past endings (in English) can be trimmed off of the end of tag names. That way a tag called “downloads” will still be recommended even if you only mention “download” in the article.
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