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The art of getting off your ass (18)
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Yahoo Site Explorer Showing Less Backlinks (2)
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After an update to Yahoo Site Explorer’s backlink tracking query results, Barry Schwartz reported over at SERoundtable that many webmasters were reporting a drop in their overall backlinks reporting, some with up to 100K backlinks missing. Has Yahoo Site Explorer gone the way of the Googlebird in its backlinks reporting? Not yet, Yahoo does not seem to be limiting the amount of links being shown but may have possibly devalued some of the lesser important ...Shared by Adam (10) HollowMarkeD (65)Contribute comment -
What is FriendFeed’s Affect on Blogging? (28)
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There’s an interesting meme that was picked up by Duncan Riley over at the Inquisitr earlier this evening with regard to the effect of FriendFeed on traditional blogging. It’s an interesting meme and something I’ve been spending a not insignificant amount of time thinking about myself. I’m in the midst of writing a long series of long posts for my personal blog on journalism with relationship to New Media, and I’m currently working on the ...Shared by Abdul Jaleel (28) Adam (10) AJ (189) Andrew Currie (10) Andrew Peek (25) Bradley (14) bricman (19) Carlos R. Hernandez (37) Evgeni L. / Reepicheep (15) Halo Efekti (59) Hessam (5) Joe (102) Joe Dillon (7) Josue Sanchez (3) Krazy (146) Laura Dantonio (22) Mark Dykeman (28) Mikey (51) Navid (71) pilgrimjohn (16) Radikal2 (41) ro11z (7) Rob (132) Robert (8) slice in (11) Stef Lewandowski (5) Syed Akram (12) Talk (9)Contribute comment -
More big newspaper layoffs/buyouts announced (1)
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It’s the same sad song, different sad verse. Today three newspapers announced layoffs or buyout offers that could affect more than 500 jobs altogether. Two are McClatchy papers: the Charlotte Observer, which aims to eliminate about 75 positions, and the Raleigh News & Observer, which is cutting 320 jobs has offered buyouts to 320 employees. The third is the Daily Oklahoman, which is cutting 150 positions. This is the third round of buyouts/layoffs this year ...Shared by Adam (10)Contribute comment -
Get Buzzed on FriendFeed With FFHolic (11)
onHave you been wondering how many rooms on FriendFeed are private? Do you know how many active and public users there are? Are you curious as to whether people “comment” or “like” more? Do you even care? For those people who have fallen head over heels for FriendFeed and have been searching for a way to see “what’s popular,” I introduce to you FFHolic. The site, which just launched yesterday, is a place where FriendFeed ...Shared by Adam (10) AJ (189) baardoa (29) Dieter Schwarz (10) Elizabeth (38) elsterama (40) louisgray (146) Mark (23) Mike F (459) Paul Dunay (23) smdahlen (12)Contribute comment
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10 Tools for Running Stats Tracking in WordPress (47)
onThere are numerous plugins to help bloggers insert tracking codes into their blogs. Google Analytics gets the most attention, and there are several others that are worth trying out that will keep you from having to make numerous edits to your templates to make sure you cover all the pages you want. Here are 10 very helpful tools for running stats tracking in WordPress. All of the following are supposed to work in version 2.5 ...Shared by Adam (10) Adam Helweh (41) Ahmed (62) AJ (189) Andrew (8) Andrew Peek (25) anitsirk (14) atul (75) brokekid (134) Cassie Wallender (14) Chad Kaszer (1) Chris Parente (2) CogDog (19) d2s (45) Daniel (63) Daniel Langendorf (19) Erik Forsberg (2) Fred Schechter (75) Glenn Batuyong (61) GP (36) Guillaume Foutry (60) hotmonitor (9) Jesus (38) jezarnold (12) John Park (5) Josh (24) Katie Harbath (5) ken bavier (12) Lon (7) Luis Suarez (24) Marcel (25) Mario (30) Markus (8) Mike F (459) Molly Jones (6) mr.petruccio (39) Nico (23) nikhil (25) Philippe Bussiere (3) PiAir (48) Rob (132) Scott (19) Sergej Sidoruk (8) Sham (107) Shinil Payamal (74) Sue (33) Vincenzo (53)
- jezarnold said: I dont think any of these work for Hosted wordpress blogs..
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Goodbye Fail Whale: Twitter Dramatically Increases Reliability (40)
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For a while, Twitter's reliability issues were a running joke in the blogosphere, with Twitter's iconic Fail Whale appearing on anything from tatoos to t-shirts. According to the latest update from Twitter, however, the service had an uptime of 99.88% in August. As Twitter's co-founder Biz Stone points out, Twitter is working diligently to improve Twitter's reliability. So far, those efforts seem to be working out quite well for the popular microblogging service. During August, ...Shared by Adam (10) Andrew Long (15) Azeem (36) Ben Parr (21) Bwana (74) Cai Chen (995) CannonGod (226) Ch (112) craig (58) Dennis Bjørn Petersen (12) Digg Boss (641) dobata (366) DOCBook Howto (116) Eoin (14) Frederic (6) Garnett (10) Gordon (13) guy (626) H. Duthel (105) Kyle (16) Larry (12) leedsjimbo (39) Leena (1060) Leximo (405) lkratz (21) louisgray (146) metaeuphoria (20) morgan180 (41) Patty (264) pilgrimjohn (16) Richard (18) Rob (132) Roger Kondrat (5) Ruben (22) sarahintampa (98) SMC (204) soupireland (5) Steve Nimmons (74) Tal Siach (474) Wayne Sutton (53)- Bwana said: Meanwhile, IM and Track are nowhere to be found. Shenanigans. Next time a service gets bad press for failing, just disable half your features and everything will be alright.
- soupireland said: or is it less traffic in august?
- lkratz said: pas mal comme graphes
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Finding Interesting Feeds Just Got Easier: Toluu Adds Tags - ReadWriteWeb (17)
onThe OPML sharing and matching service Toluu provides a great way to find and share interesting RSS feeds. One feature that had been missing so far, however, was tagging. In its latest update, which was released today, Toluu has made tagging one of the central features of the service, which will make finding new and interesting blogs through Toluu even easier. Adding Tags Now, every feed page on Toluu will show a "Tags" tab. This ...Shared by Adam (10) Alex (102) Alex Ryan (17) baixinho (25) charlie anzman (110) dobata (366) Kathy Brewis (74) Kerry (31) louisgray (146) Mao Yu (28) metaeuphoria (20) Mike F (459) Phil (49) Rob (132) sarahintampa (98) Yung-Hui Lim (81) 小草莓 (24)Contribute comment
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FireFox SEO Extensions - the Ultimate Collection (14)
onFireFox is the most customizable browser I am aware of and hence it is my favorite one. A while ago posting a huge overview of SEO tools I promised to compile a similar list of available FireFox SEO extensions; and so here I am. Please mind I don’t use all of them (as that’s impossible, I guess) - you can see that in "How often I use it" column - but that doesn’t mean I ...Shared by Adam (10) Alex Dumitru (291) amree (7) Ananya Walia (769) Carsten Cumbrowski (4) Dana Lookadoo (32) Elmer Thomas (141) History of Blogging (189) Kris Keimig (3) localhost 8080 (2) Michael B. (20) Mike Wilton (14) Peter (2) Tilak (1)Contribute comment
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Preventing paranoia: when does Google Chrome talk to Google.com? (56)
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For better or worse, my blog is popular with the Google conspiracy-theorist demographic. I knew that as soon as Google Chrome launched, some readers would ask tough questions about privacy and how/when Google Chrome communicates with google.com. So I decided to tackle this issue head-on. I talked to the Chrome team to find out if there’s anything to worry about. The short answer is no. For the long answer, read on. - If you’re just ...Shared by [Curtis W] (25) Aaron (7) Adam (10) AJ (189) Andy Beal (23) Bob Hazlett (10) Bobby (20) Brit (24) C.K. (134) Carl (16) César C (13) cgsheldon (151) Christopher (41) Chung (111) d1g1t (301) David Erickson (40) DavidSS (7) dobata (366) Erik J. Heels (51) federico silva (21) Fletcher (4) Geoff (7) ghosttie (38) Gregory Go (39) Guillermo Esteves (13) hosein (38) hubfeed (37) inkode (28) Jeff (59) JLH (2) JohnBfromMemphis (8) Jonathan (30) Kirill Tikhonov (4) Le (7) louisgray (146) Martin Gordon (12) met (25) Mike F (459) moedusa (17) moonboy (19) Olivier (48) Peter Warnock (10) Phil (14) Phuller10 (34) robert (7) Scott (21) Sebastian (4) Shogun (14) Shoshannah F (40) Steve Nimmons (74) svartling (27) unclespeedo (17) Vish (13) Waldemar (13) Young (23) Zaki (58)- Young said: Very good!I will change it into Chinese.
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Little Known Fact: Sarah Palin Won Project Runway at Social Honeycomb (2)
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Twitter has been abuzz with “Little Known Facts” about McCain’s running mate Sarah Palin. I’ve been cracking up all night, and wanted to share my proudest achievement of the week:Shared by Adam (10) washwords (3)Contribute comment -
Chad Johnson Changes His Last Name to Ocho Cinco (47)
permalinkChad Johnson has legally changed his name to Chad Javon Ocho Cinco in Broward County, Fla., a switch that became official this week.Shared by adam (972) Adam (10) Adam McDonald (29) Adam Underwood (4) Alex France (139) Alex Jarvis (5) Andrew Hughes (32) Ashok (20) bittin (194) Bobby (13) Brent (6) Cameron Yeager (15) Chad Hartley (0) Connor Wilson (2) dave centers (33) Duane (42) Edward David (6) Eric (5) Jacob (29) Jason (13) Jason Wertenberger (7) Jay Bandoy (39) Jeremy (102) Jesse (10) Joey Doyle (11) John Roling (13) John-Michael Oswalt (10) Jordan (411) K. Adam Christensen (13) Katie Fellows (36) Lawrence Denes (2) Mathew (30) Matt (26) Matt Pierson (9) Matthew (47) MeghnaK (320) Mike Nayyar (184) Mr. BabyMan (366) ProfVegas (167) Robert Sefer (7) Sam Lesher (11) Steven (11) Sun Tzu (313) Tim (11) webtime (476) Will Hirsbrunner (15) xxdesmus (71)
- Matt Pierson said: Oh Chad, you so crazy
- Ashok said: This may be the funniest thing i've ever heard. The best part, it's not even spanish for eighty five.
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Memo To Comcast: Show Us the Meter For Metered Broadband (26)
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Comcast is out telling defending its bandwidth caps and how they are not bad. And how 250 GB transfer is plenty and enough to do whatever we want to do. Of course, in today’s terms that is more than enough, but what happens in the future. Nevertheless, If they are going to put caps, then they need to give us to what I think is an acceptable expectation - a meter. Metered billing needs a ...Shared by 100rabh™ (9) Adam (10) Brad Davis Seal (28) brownpau (47) Devlin D (4) Erik C. Thauvin (37) Forrest (21) James.Urquhart (9) Jeff (10) John Magnus (39) johnmarkos (6) Justin Yost (81) Kevin (30) Mahesh CR (2) Mark Stevens (10) Nick (73) Nitin Badjatia (3) Rahul Gaitonde (15) richhand (31) Robert Accettura (13) Sam (7) todd (14) tonyleachsf (2) usrbingeek (6) Varun Mahajan (27) Zac (5)Contribute comment -
Bruceclay.com - Meet BackType: Fun New Reputation Management Tool - SEO Blog (2)
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While it's not quite Trackur, have you played with BackType yet? I'm not usually one to hype things immediately after launch, but I've been playing with BackType over the past 24 hours and I have to say I'm liking it in a big way. If you missed yesterday's TechMeme crazy, BackType is a cool new blog comment aggregation service that grabs what commenters are saying from across the Interwebz and places them into one keyword-focused, ...Shared by Adam (10) Lily Grozeva (4)Contribute comment -
iPhone Reception Problems are All Your Fault (23)
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An internal source at AT&T discussed the problems fixed by the 2.0.2 update, explaining, in no uncomplicated terms, that the update controlled the UMTS power control in the phone. Each iPhone requires a small amount of power from the transmitter and that power is requested by the phone itself. If too many phones ask for too much power at once, the transmitter starts shutting down, resulting in dropped calls. The iPhone 3G was asking for ...Shared by adam (25) Adam (10) Alex (18) Apostolos (11) Bob Caswell (15) Brandon Fuller (3) christideli (32) Clint (22) Coolbox (22) David (1) Elroy (22) Harish Mallipeddi (2) Hisham (23) Kirby Witmer (20) Merlin (4) Olivier G. (4) Paul (0) rene (50) Richie de Almeida (30) rjhintz (35) Robert Accettura (13) Ron (9) Stewtopia (8)- Clint said: so wait.. apple can remove apps from people's phones that they don't want you to use (despite the fact that the phone is your property), but they can't make you update such that you don't get dropped calls?!?! LAUGHABLE!!
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2 Tweaks to Facebook’s News Feed Today (8)
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Facebook continued tweaking the News Feed in the redesigned Facebook this morning with 2 interesting changes: Status Updates now always occupy the top three story spots “All Stories” has been renamed to the more exciting “Live Feed” The first three status updates also do not have the “show me more/less about this person” feedback options. It appears that Facebook is simply taking the three most recent updates without trying to prioritise. Many users have missed ...Shared by Adam (10) Alex Ryan (17) DOCBook Howto (116) ehu4ever (87) Ethan (20) Hisham (23) Hooman Radfar (9) LANjackal (9)Contribute comment -
How to Rock Flickr Like a Champ - ReadWriteWeb (131)
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Widget Best Practices (3)
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The following is from a handout I developed for my presentation on the use of widgets in online retail at the Shop.org Strategy & Innovation Forum earlier this year. It's a checklist of widget best practices. Enjoy! (There's also a Word doc version of this available for download: widget_checklist.doc.) Thinking of developing a widget for folks' desktops, mobile phones, blogs, or social networks (e.g. Facebook or MySpace)? First off, you need to decide what type ...Contribute comment -
The Best Six Tools to Track Your Time Spent Online (32)
onThere are a variety of time tracking tools available today. The first type are the ones targeted at businesses and professionals for tracking amount of time spent on a particular project so they can bill their clients accordingly. The second variety are for net junkies with a need to track time spent on a particular activity online, say emailing, blogging, micro-blogging, reading RSS feeds, browsing, or just plain social networking. We searched the Web for ...Shared by
