May
27
Make mo money redux
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This is from Stephen Pierce’s podcast. Every week he puts out a podcast where he talks about new tools that he finds online that could help you with your business. All of the tools are usually free and some of them are more relevant than others, but here’s a redux from the podcast:
1) hotwords.com > what is the workd searching for? On this page, you can find information about what people are typing into the search engines and looking up.
2) tokoni.com > Life is full of stories, tell yours. This site has stories that people are telling about whatever is going on with them. Could be great for content generation, make sure you get the writer’s permission before you use their story in a product.
3) beta.twitscoop.com > tells you what’s hot on twitter. This is currently in beta, but the list of words tells you who is typing what on twitter and how many times the word comes up across the twitter network. This is currently in beta, so the results may be a bit unreliable, but it’s a good place to keep your finger on the pulse of what’s happening.
4) hotpluto.com > all video advertising marketplace. Upload videos and pics. look at how other people are using advertising. Good place to get ideas and is another place to put videos out on the web.
5) seonik.com > seo link generator, creates search engine friendly links to your site or to whatever site you’re promoting.
6) yieldbuild.com > tests different adsense layouts. Useful for getting better yield from the adsense ads that you are publishing across your sites.
7) sellitspeedy.com > fastest way to sell anything. They are trying to position themselves as an alternative to eBay and are claiming that they can sell whatever it is that you’re selling faster than eBay can.
That’s it for now. Please let me know if any of these sites help you out in anyway.
Cheers,
Rafael
May
21
Twitter is down, again
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OK, I bit the bullet and decided to sign up for some web 2.0 services out there. A bunch of people I know are on twitter, so I decided to join them and see what all the hubub is about.
I’m not impressed.
According to an article on Webomatica, this is the second time that twitter has gone down in as many weeks. Maybe, twitter is having some scaling issues, or maybe they are having some other issues with their servers and whatnot only twitter knows for sure. The thing is, I feel that if you’re going to have a big time service for people to use, then you need to have a big time server room to back it up.
Again, I don’t know why the twitter service went down today, all I know is that it went down and today was my first day using the service. It may turn out to be my last day using the service.
Apparently, some people are going to protest the outages by putting together a twit out, whereby no one twitters anything for a day. I don’t know how all that’s going to turn out.
In that Webomatica article, they talk about using something called “FriendFeed” as an alternative.
I went to go check it out, because I wanted to see what’s going on over there. FriendFeed’s gimmick, is that they are a lifestream aggregator.
What does that mean?
It means that they pull your feeds from Twitter, blogs, facebook, flikr, pretty much anything that has an RSS feed and they aggregate it all into one pipe. So, everything you do online can potentially be in one place. I think that’s both cool and frightening at the same time.
I don’t know that I like everyone seeing everything that I do in one place. For marketing purposes however, I think that it can have great value. It may even replace “the list” in importance since people will be able to instantly see whatever site you update with whatever offer you have.
Well, there you have it, a vision of the future. One in which we’re all interconnected thanks to RSS feeds and ubiquitous computing. The question remains, is it bad form to twitter that you’re not impressed with twitter? If you have no friends on the twitter network, does no one care that you’re twittering? If I decide to keep FriendFeed, do I have to call say that I’m “friendfeeding” instead of “twittering”?
