Movie Shot with CellPhone impressive

November 19, 2010

Yesterday John Chow gave a mention to the movie shot entirely with a Nokia N8 cellphone. The movie is called The Commuter, it is 7 1/2 minutes long and stars Dev Patel, Pamela Anderson and Charles Dance. It was directed by the McHenry brothers. Obviously Nokia wanted to make a point and it seems they [...]

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Top Stories at Mashable Fri Nov 19

November 19, 2010

Mashable’s top news stories in the world of social networking, tech and business: Users Can Now Log in to MySpace With Facebook – MySpace users can now log in using Facebook – does this signal more future cooperation, possible takeover? Twitter introduces “People” tab to help find followers based on interests and relationships. U.S. Facebook [...]

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Free Shirt Friday promotion at Shoemoney

November 19, 2010

Here’s a great promotion that’s been going on at Shoemoney.com for quite a while. You send Jeremy a free tee shirt. He’ll have a photo taken of himself wearing it, post it on his blog, and add some information about your business. As he demonstrates in his most recent post this is a great way [...]

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Twitter Analytics tool will probably be free

November 18, 2010

Mashable CEO Pete Cashmore ponders why Twitter’s new analytics tool might be free. He thinks they could easily charge for the service since tracking social media is now fairly big business. In this article published at CNN.com Cashmore suggests the reason may be simply to entice users to stay with Twitter rather than jumping ship [...]

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13 Tips to help beginning bloggers

November 18, 2010

This is a great list of tips to help beginning bloggers get off on the right foot. This article by Gretchen Rubin of The Happiness Project. Just a couple of her tips: 1. Start simple. Add bells and whistles over time. Many people get paralyzed at the outset, because they’re overwhelmed by the desire to [...]

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Promote Your Blog with a Manifesto

November 18, 2010

Here’s an interesting idea for promoting your blog. In a guest post on ProBlogger.net, Clare Lancaster suggests creating a “manifesto” for your blog. What is she talking about? Here’s how she describes it: A manifesto traditionally communicates the values and beliefs of a group of people or organization. The most common form of blog manifestos [...]

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Predicting where Google is going

November 18, 2010

Matt Cutts recently suggested that SEOs “try to predict where Google is going in the future” rather than trying to “chase the algorithm”. Here are some Google predictions according to Peter Da Vanzo of SEOBook.com: Google will continue to dominate. Facebook is important, but not as a search engine. Blackhat sites will not bother Google [...]

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5 Company CEOs who ‘get’ social media

November 18, 2010

According to a recent study only about 36% of the CEOs of the world’s 50 largest companies “engage” using social media or company websites. Of those quite a few just do “one-way” communication – posting stuff but not actually interacting with readers/customers/clients. Very few have a profile on Twitter (8%), Facebook (4%), MySpace (4%), or [...]

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Mashable’s 3 Biggest Social Media Stories

November 18, 2010

Mashable.com’s 3 biggest social media stories for today: – Facebook and Myspace to make joint announcement – an unprecedented event – Chinese activist Cheng Jianping sentenced to a year of “re-education” for tweeting – Twitter’s official analytics product has arrived See original story.

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Steve Wozniak says Android will win the smartphone battle

November 18, 2010

According to this article on Engadget.com Steve Wozniak, one of the original founders of Apple, thinks phones running Google’s Android operating system will eventually dominate the smartphone market in a ways somewhat similar to how Windows has dominated desktop computers. According to the Engadget article, Woz stressed that the iPhone, “Has very few weak points. [...]

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Worried about Meta Tags?

November 17, 2010

Is there anything more boring than an article about web page meta tags? Unfortunately, people who create websites have to actually think about these things. That’s because they have played a role in SEO, presumably indicating (to the search engines) something about the subject matter of a particular page. It is generally accepted that the [...]

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Promoting Your Blog Posts Using Twitter

November 12, 2010

If you’re an active blogger you probably already know there are a few different ways to automatically send new blog posts to your Twitter account. I’ve used a few different ways to do this, but the best I’ve found so far is TwitterFeed.com – This is an online service that uses your blog’s RSS feed [...]

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Using A Temporary Blog to Get a Job

November 10, 2010

I’ve been thinking a bit about blogging and the different ways blogs can be used. We can get really hung up on one specific model – and it might be useful to enumerate the different “models” available to bloggers – and forget that a blog can be used for other purposes you may not have [...]

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Don’t Waste Your Time on a Business Blog

November 10, 2010

If you are an online entrepreneur or any kind of entrepreneur for that matter (offline, bricks and mortar, professional, whatever) you may have wondered if you should start a blog. I’m not going to enumerate the pros and cons of blogging. Instead I want to suggest what an effective business-oriented blog is, and the attitude [...]

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John Chow Reveals Amazing Online Money Making Secret

November 10, 2010

In a recent blog post successful internet marketer and blogger John Chow revealed one of the most important money making secrets about blogging in the “make money online” niche. His advice: Don’t blog about making money online if you’ve never made money online. He admits he and other successful bloggers like Shoemoney and ProBlogger may [...]

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