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why your social media guru is an asshole & a liar OR how to succeed (or not) with your internet presence

By Giania • Jun 30th, 2009 • Category: Internet Tools

Hot: Author’s Note: Some editing may apply to the article below. This article was originally 2 hours worth of unedited vitriol, inspired by the inordinate amount of time it takes me to remove spammers from my follower list on Twitter. (I block because I care about the health of the network.) I would like to [...]



Scrobbling, Emailing, Chatting, Tweeting, Shortening, Blogging, and Digging

By Tommy of Roguestar • Mar 14th, 2009 • Category: Internet Tools

Hot: I’ve recently taken the jump to work freelance as an internet marketer. Because of this I’ve been spending almost every waking hour researching and leveraging social platforms to the best of my understanding. But this post isn’t about self promotion this is about all of the wonderful things you can do online. Now I [...]



Social Media Marketing and “Natural” Product Placement

By AmHm • Feb 12th, 2009 • Category: Internet Tools

Hot: Perhaps its my intimate exposure to many things “internet marketing,” (I’m an SEO copywriter and, when I feel like bragging, amateur strategist) but lately it seems all I hear about is Social Media Marketing. From articles detailing how Twitter, Facebook and Delicious can help optimize your business or website, to blog-posts scolding SEO’s for [...]



Good News! Multiple Language Support for RSS

By Giania • Aug 7th, 2008 • Category: Internet Tools

Hot: Do you have RSS feeds for sites that you like, but they aren’t in your language? Don’t you wish you could get those feeds translated and delivered in the language you’re most comfortable reading? Of course you do! Well, the internet is full of surprises and helpful little whatnots, and one of those items [...]



Update: URLTea NOT Dead??

By Giania • Apr 30th, 2008 • Category: Internet Tools

Hot: Well, just as its downtime was unannounced, so too is its resurrection. Out of habit I went to shrink down a url using my URLTea bookmarklet (which I refused to dispose of until I knew for sure), lo and behold it worked! Not only did it work, it worked super fast. What is going [...]



Analytics is Not a Perfect Science or How to Tie A Shemagh

By Giania • Apr 7th, 2008 • Category: Internet Tools

Hot: Until I started looking at the Analog 6.0 stat reports for the site, I had no idea what a shemagh was. Now I know it’s a it’s a style of head wrap which originated in the Middle East. If you really want to know how, ActionGear.com has a pretty handy tutorial (with pictures!). However, [...]



This Just In: Seaking Popular for WAY Longer than Mudkips

By Giania • Mar 31st, 2008 • Category: Anime, Articles of Interest, Fnord, Internet Tools, Memes

Hot: All this talk of Mudkips (and having to troll around Google Labs for something work related) got me to thinking, just how popular is this whole “mudkips” thing, and what about rival Pokémon meme, Seaking? Well, the results are in! The winner for longest running search item? Seaking. Current most popular? Mudkips. Overall though, [...]



Gmail was hilarious today

By Giania • Feb 28th, 2008 • Category: Internet Tools

Hot: Go on and just tell me what’s wrong with this picture! I don’t know if it’s coincidental or contextual but either way it is downright hilarious! Well, except for the obvious reminder that the Almighty Google is not really all that mighty. Especially when you pit them against the hundreds of thousands of people [...]



Six Word Memoir Book Hits the NY Times Bestseller List!

By Giania • Feb 25th, 2008 • Category: Articles of Interest, Internet Tools

Hot: What more is there to say? Ok, well, for anyone who isn’t in the know: SMITH Magazine, Larry Smith, and Rachel Fershleiser set about collecting six word memoirs from all types of people. Some were famous, some were just everyday people who entered a contest to have their miniaturized life story printed. The outcome [...]



More Sponsored Gmail Web Clip Weirdness

By Giania • Nov 15th, 2007 • Category: Internet Tools

Hot: Today while studiously going through the process of marking all the newsletters I don’t bother with as read, I happened to note the following “Web Clip” above my inbox. Sort of scant information for someone who paid for an ad. I daresay it looks just like spam. Junk. Fraudulent and whatnot. I braced myself [...]