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Is “shrinkage” ever a good thing? Actually, Jerry Seinfeld notwithstanding, yes! If you don’t know about shrinkage as it applies to the internet, learn the basics first , then come back and learn how to make money with it. I’ll wait. There are rumblings that TinyURL, the oldest and probably most . . . → Read More: Adjix: Monetize your shrinkage  6 comments - (Comments are closed)  Geek Stuff, Hacking and Security, Monetizing  adjix, Adjix.com, API, cloaking, CPM, DNS, DNS wizardry, domain, frame, FREE, monetize, PHP, Seinfeld, shrinkage, strip ad, TinyURL, tracking, URL shrinker Regex's save the day Pundits say you should produce original content but people visit when I embed xkcd comics in my blog. Another fave from XKCD. Gotta love ’em! 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That’s what dofollows are meant to do — increase your incoming link count, and ultimately bump your Google PR. . . . → Read More: Not all dofollows are created equal 25 comments - (Comments are closed) Fun Web and Blog Goodies, Geek Stuff, Monetizing blog comments, Blogroll, comments, Dofollow, Google juice, Google PR, inbound, link, link juice, linkilicious, linkiliciousness, SEO, Wordpress, WordPress 2.7, WP Dashboard I was recently reading Guy Kawasaki’s blog post on how he uses Twitter. I was thinking, sure, Twitterfeed is great because it tweets my blog posts as me, but it would be even nicer if my awesome readers had a button to tweet my blog post as them in one click, i.e. without the brain . . . → Read More: When Monkeys Fly Out My A$$ OR My TweetThis Hack 22 comments - (Comments are closed) Fun Web and Blog Goodies, Geek Stuff, Hacking and Security, Monetizing automate, bird, dorkage, flying monkeys, followers, Guy Kawasaki, hack, kadavy, monkeys, monkeys fly out my ass, orifice, plugin, Richard X Thripp, slideshare, tweet, tweet this, twitter, twitter replies, twitterfeed, Wordpress One of my good friends related a story to me about some of the earliest Hewlett Packard programmable calculators in the early 80’s. When engaging in lengthy number crunching, the calculator would print “crunching” (or processing, or something) on the display, and every few seconds it would add a dot, so the user would know . . . → Read More: User Interface Matters 6 comments - (Comments are closed) Geek Stuff ajax, asynchronous, back-end, coupling, dead air time, dead time, experience, javascript, jerky, objective time, programmable calculators, progress bar, subjective time, UI, update, user interface, user interfaces, user resistance { “pipe_id”: “52c9a16ff593ec43760f996b6e6b5a16”, “width” : “490px”, “height” : “400px” } This is a yahoo pipe that gets fed my twitter name, goes to the public twitter feed, finds my “friends” who have provided geographical locations, and uses that data to map them. Yahoo pipes are amazingly visual ways to build mashups. If you don’t . . . → Read More: Map Your Tweeple (twitter friends) Comments are closed Fun Web and Blog Goodies, Geek Stuff Andy Murd, badge, blog, embed, feed, followers, friends, georss, javascript, map, mashups, password, pipes, third party, tweeple, twitter, username, visual, yahoo pipes One of my web developer friends evolved her own custom CMS several years ago, when there the opensource CMS’s (a la Drupal, Joomla, et al) were not nearly as good as they are now. In the past few years many of her clients have wanted to start blogs. 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Dofollows Part II
This post started as a follow-on comment to my post “Not All Dofollows are created Equal,” but it started to get long and linky, so it became a new post. In the previous dofollow post, I was wondering why, given the number of comments I write on other blogs, I get so few inbound . . . → Read More: Dofollows Part II