I just finished updating my Facebook profile to the new Timeline. What a nerve-racking experience….because with Facebook, you never know what privacy settings have been changed without your permission, what new options and features are turned on by default, and so forth. Facebook doesn’t exactly have a good history of protecting its users, especially when [...]
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Yesterday afternoon I came upon an invite to Schemer.com, a recommendation engine owned by Google that got a little press within the last few weeks. The idea is that, with help from friends, you can discover things to do — big or small stuff — track what you want to do, what you’ve done, etc. [...]
Read more →I think everyone needs a little Hammer-time every now and then. Looks like I’m gonna be getting some of my own on Twitter. Less than an hour after I wrote about MC Hammer’s new search engine on Search Engine Land, this arrived in my In box.
Read more →It happened about a month ago. You may have seen it … or read it. It happened on my SEO/marketing blog when I published this post: Here’s Why You Should Be Careful About Twitter User Photo Galleries You could go read (or re-read) that if you want, but you won’t see anything that stands out [...]
Read more →Look what I saw over the weekend when I was vanity searching my name in Google. Marin Software is running PPC ads against my name and targeting the ads at small businesses. Awwww, shucks. You flatter me, Marin! (And yes, I’ll gladly thank you with that link above. New idea: Vanity PPC ads as a [...]
Read more →There are a bunch of different rooms on Turntable.fm for playing and hearing 80s music. The one I’ve been hanging out in lately is I (heart) the 80s, which is usually one of the more active/busy rooms going each day. (And is the main reason for my Turntable.fm addiction.) What’s interesting is how the crowd [...]
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