Anyone who tweets or sends URL’s in emails likes short URL’s for different reasons. Twitter users like ‘em because of the 140 char limit for tweets. You don’t want to use all 140 chars allocation on some hairy ugly URL–you also need a few to hint what it IS! Programmatic email senders like ‘em because they fit on one line. Is there an API to do this under program control?
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 8 comments - (Comments are closed)  Fun Web and Blog Goodies, Geek Stuff, Hacking and Security  API, automate, crunch, curl, email client, Exception, function, GET, getTinyUrl, hairy ugly URL, line, link, linkedin, multi-line links in email, PHP, POST, query string, support, third party, TinyURL, TinyURL API, toolbar, toolbar button, trivial api, twitter Feedburner will create an animated banner that cycles through the five most recent items on any RSS feed. I used it to create an IAB standard 468×60 banner promoting my tweets. There are excrutiatingly detailed instructions with screendumps over on my companion hub at hubpages (let them host the frakkin’ screendumps) but in a . . . → Read More: Use feedburner to promote your blog graphically 8 comments - (Comments are closed) Fun Web and Blog Goodies, Geek Stuff 468x60 banner, animated banner, animation, blog, blogging, Burn, Configure, create, exposure, feed, feedburner, headline animator, hub, IAB, leverage, linkedin, login, marketing, microblog, publicity, recent items, rss, syndication, tweet, twitter, xml
But as a veteran filling out job application forms, I have to wonder what really is considered a lie. For example, these forms that try to fit you into neat little boxes, is it a lie if you fit 90% in the box? what about 80% what if you don’t even know how much you conform to some vague language describing a responsibility. 6 comments - (Comments are closed) Geek Stuff corporate, embellish, falsify, fib, fit, IT, job, job application forms, kvm switches, lie, linkedin, little boxes, management, misrepresentation, network, news item, reporting, responsibility, resume, router, samba, Tech Republic, vague language This is a prototype expression of thanks in the form of Linky LUV in appreciation of my fans over on Hub Pages It randomly displays one of their widgets right here in an IFRAME. This has been upgraded so it will do anybody’s fans, not just mine. If you don’t . . . → Read More: A hack for my Hubpages fans Comments are closed Geek Stuff, Hacking and Security expression, fan club, fan widget, fans, hack, HubPages, hubpages fan widget, iframe, linkedin, Linky, Linky LUV, LUV, prototype, random, refresh
The dork is featured again in Issue #4 (August 1) of Information Security Short Takes that I was in last month. This blog features a monthly blog carnival potpourri webzine of useful selection of security related articles. I know, I know, nobody wants to hear about security. It’s boring as all get out, and it’ll probably not happen to you. Except that it is happening, to more and more of us each year. Knowledge is power in this game. Know how it works, what to do and what not to do, and diminish your chance of being ripped off. 2 comments - (Comments are closed) Fun Web and Blog Goodies, Hacking and Security article syndication, blog carnival, consequences, crack, credit card, hack, identity, identity theft, info security, linkedin, nightmare, security, security articles, tail, webzine
If you like stumbleupon for discovering websites and blogs, you are gonna love stumbleaudio for discovering new artists and tracks. Warning: it is a flash site but the interface is well-done and intuitive. Continue reading StumbleAudio: a great way to discover new tracks 3 comments - (Comments are closed) Fun Web and Blog Goodies, Multimedia, Uncategorized art, artist, attraction, audio, background music, beat, cover art, crap, deal breaker, download, flash, genre, genres, hack, instrumentalists, junk, junk food, Latin, linkedin, music, niche, play, pulp, pulp fiction, ream, schlock, schlocky, singers, spanish rap, stumbleaudio, stumbleupon, track, trite, untalented, visual describes aiderss, a rss reader with filtering . . . → Read More: AideRSS — a reader that filters for you 3 comments - (Comments are closed) Fun Web and Blog Goodies agent, aiderss, automation, Bloglines, crawl, feed filter, feed reader, geeky, google, linkedin, metablog, opml, overall score, some heavy hitters, threshhold, twitter, video tutorial
The downside to bloggingThe way most blogging software arranges the posts in reverse chronological order guarantees that only your most recent post will get much attention. Sure, visitors are free to break it out by category or to search for a particular topic, but the fact remains that most visitors see the home page when following a root link to a blog. Continue reading HubPages: A paying outlet for your verbal diarrhea 20 comments - (Comments are closed) Fun Web and Blog Goodies, Monetizing, Multimedia Amazon, article, audience, chronological, diarrhea, direct search, downside, ebay, editorial approval, experiment, google adsense, HTML, hub, HubPages, kontera, lens, leverage, linkedin, Monetizing, outbound links, publicity, referrals, revenue, search engine, search engine traffic, Seth Godin, shelf life, Squidoo, standalone, tracking, writing, wysiwyg editor If your blog is 100% nutritious lean tech protein, it seems as dry and flavorless as a digital camera manual. Besides, any cook knows that the flavor is in the fat. Not useful but people like it better. That’s the lesson I have been learning lately but I hadn’t taken any action yet. Even so, for some unknown reason Hot Dorkage seems to lighting up the boards with social action this week. First I get reviewed, then I get tagged. This social stuff is all new to me as a participant. Like most geeks I just used Google to search for technical info. When I hit paydirt I said thank you and I stumbled it or dugg it if I really found it useful. But never social memes until today. 5 comments - (Comments are closed) Fun Web and Blog Goodies 4 things, Analyst, art school, dork, entrepreneur, friends, geeks, link juice, linkbait, linkedin, meme, networking, social, substitute music teacher, symantec, tech, to kill a mockingbird, triplets of belleville, viral, web 2.0 |
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Want to know a little secret about bloggers? We bloggers all have a bad case of verbal diarrhea! We just can’t stop spouting off and we all like an audience. Since we’re all doomed to suffer from this malady, we might as well get paid something while we suffer from it.
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