So after coming back from SES I had some interesting conversations, looked at some interesting things and came up with a few ideas. One of the things I’d like to try but have never seen is a recently updated function/plugin. How would a recently updated plugin differ from a recently published function … well I’m glad you asked …
Recently updated would be used when you are using pages or posts in a more traditional CMS environment instead of a blog one. For example say you have a library or article database of keystone or flagship content. After the site is 3-4 years old the content may be come outdated. Rather than put up a new page/post with a new URL you decide to use the existing one and update or refresh the content. It would be nice if you could have a list of the ten most recently updated articles […]
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Written by on August 29th, 2008 with no comments.
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So back in the beginning of August I mentioned two plugins that I felt needed to be developed. Joost DeValk stepped up to the plate and wrote one, the Amazon Auto Linker, so he gets the free link love. In caser you missed it the plugin goes thru and auto appends your amazon aff id to any amazon URL’s, nifty huh
If you are interested in writing some plugins and kicking them into the public domain in exchange for some link love and attention drop me a line I’ve got some ideas …
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Written by on August 28th, 2008 with no comments.
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Last week Giovanni Gallucci sent me a link to Viewzi which has some interesting search UI’s that I think advanced users might actually use. Unlike Cuil I don’t think they spent 30 million and ended up with a product that thinks the best picture for me is a picture of Elliot Spitzer.
One of the search UI’s is called celebrity photo and here’s what it turns up for Lindsay Lohan.
Here’s the video search for Lindsay Lohan.
Ok so maybe your looking for something a little more serious and professional like information on disqus.com, try the information window.
Another interesting view is the Techcrunch only view.
If your music collection is short some album covers and iTunes hates you because you didn’t buy if from them try album search.
it’s not perfect, timeline view gets a little busy for active subjects, and shopping is kinda spartan, and the recipe search is very hit or miss. […]
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Written by on August 12th, 2008 with no comments.
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So my friend Ceaser Cerna launched his new site this week and is making his first tool Tweet Pro available. If you don’t know Cesar he used to work for Greg Boser aka Webgeurilla. I was in on the beta program and had a chance to put the tool thru it’s paces this weekend.
In a nutshell the tool is souped up twitter search engine in the form of a desktop application. You put in your search term and twitter returns a list of people who used the term recently
You can then add these people as friends. It has some configurable settings so you can throttle your friending so you don’t look like a spammer. So you don’t believe that friending people on twitter is a worthwhile marketing activity … can I suggest reading a Twitter Case Study from Rae Hoffman (aka Sugarrae) showing how she used twitter to build her […]
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Written by on August 6th, 2008 with no comments.
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Here’s a list of Firefox extensions I have installed, if you know of anything cool I’m not using drop it in the comments below:
Aardvark
- Lets you debug HTML really quickly and easily
About This Site - a wealth of quick links to get more data
AI Roboform Toolbar for Firefox cause who has the time to remember passwords
All-in-One Sidebar - give me links and access to the sidebar
Better GCal - makes it pretty and more useable
Better Gmail 2 - makes it more useable
coComment - keeps track of comments you made elsewhere
ColorZilla - a color picker
Copy Plain Text - removes formatting when you copy text from a web page
CustomizeGoogle - gives you nice little links on other search engines
del.icio.us Complete - only the best bookmarking tool ever
Download Statusbar - helps you keep track of download stuff without the annoying pop up window
Email This! Bookmarklet Extension - lets me email pages to […]
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Written by on January 4th, 2008 with no comments.
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A few weeks ago I saw a post on Sphinn about organizing your feeds with a three dimensional approach. I use something similar but with a trick I learned from GTD.
I like to sort my feeds by importance and categories. First I’ll put things into category based folders like SEO, Travel, Disney, Celeb News etc. Next I’ll set up special folders for high priority stuff like ego tracking, client tracking, client feeds ETC. If I’m pressed for time I only check these everything else can wait. Next I have aggregators type feeds where I just scan the headlines to see if there is something I want to read. These are the lowest priority I only scan them when I have finished all my work or are killing time. So ideally I want to go through the priority stuff first, then the regular feeds and lastly the scan feeds. Since 99% […]
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Written by on January 3rd, 2008 with no comments.
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Michael Arrington has a great post listing what web 2.0 websites he couldn’t live without. I don’t know that there are any sites I couldn’t live without but there sure are a few I use that make my life and my day more productive. I’m also not going to limit myself to web 2.0 sites, but here are the sites that help me GTD:
Gmail: Say what you want about the Google borg and it’s all knowing all seeing tentacles, but web based email is a much better solution than PC based email. It will be great when someone figures out how to merge “cloud computing” with offline computing (Google gears is buggy as all get out) but I’m willing to deal with that one downside in an otherwise stellar program
Google Reader: Again the borg has another foothold in my life, but aside from a few suggestions it’s a stellar product, […]
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Written by on January 2nd, 2008 with no comments.
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So after coming back from a vacation after SES I was reminded bandwidth and download speeds are still very much an issue.
The Thursday after SES San Jose we drove to Anaheim to visit the second happiest place on earth, Disneyland (shocking I know). While in Anaheim we planned a day trip to Catalina Island, where I was going to do a little scuba diving. Faced with the choice of getting as much client work out the door before I left, or planning/booking all of my travel plans, I chose to do the client work and book things on the go.
Since I’m paying $60 a month for my verizon card I don’t use the $10 a day hotel internet anymore. While Verizon is faster than dialup, broadband speed it ain’t. In fact big splashy graphics, flash, or audio files are torture to download. So when evaluating scuba tour sites, if the […]
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Written by on August 30th, 2007 with no comments.
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