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Your Facebook Data File: Everything You Never Wanted Anyone to Know
Oct 3rd
A group of Austrian students called Europe v. Facebook recently got their hands on their complete Facebook user data files – note, this is not the same file Facebook sends if you request your personal history through the webform in Account Setting…
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Google Disables URL Removals After Bug Allows Anyone To Remove Any Site
Jul 19th
This morning, James Breckenridge discovered a loophole within Google’s Webmaster Tools that allowed anyone to remove any site from Google. Both James and I sent this information to Google as soon as we heard of it. After several hours, Google has told us, “we’re still…
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Google Testing New Search Results Page Look. Does Anyone Actually Like It?
May 8th
Over the weekend, I received a dozen or so emails, tweets and other notifications of a new Google search results page interface and layout. I personally do not see it, but from the screen shots shared with me, it doesn’t look pretty. There is a lot of white space, dotted lines to separate one…
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Who Started The “Dear Yahoo, I’ve Never Heard Anyone Say ‘Let’s Yahoo It’ Sincerely Google” Twitter Joke?
May 5th
As you might expect, I monitor a number of search-related topics being discussed on Twitter. Over the past few days, there’s been spike in funny bit of advice that Google is giving Yahoo — that no one says, “Let’s Yahoo It.” But how did that get started? Let’s…
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GiftRocket: Send a Gift Card to Anyone, Anywhere
Apr 13th
On one hand, I’m a big fan of the gift card. I never know what to buy people, and so gift cards always seem like a good option. On the other hand, gift cards are frustrating in their own right, particularly if I want to get a gift card to a particular local business and not just a major chain. A lot of sites don’t offer gift cards, and if they do, you have to actually go into the shop to purchase one – that’s a pain when your family is spread all over the country. And it’s a pain for recipients to have to keep track of little gift certificates or plastic cards.
Thankfully, GIftRocket has rebooted the whole process, with a really innovative solution that should please merchants, gift-givers, and recipients alike.
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GiftRocket works a peer-to-peer gift card, bypassing the merchant entirely. You can send a gift card via the startup’s website. It uses Yelp as its directory of merchants, so you can create a gift card to use any store, restaurant, bar, hotel, and so on that’s listed in that database. (That’s pretty much every business.)
The recipient of the card will receive a message notifying them of the gift, and when they arrive at the location, they can follow the link in the email, allow their phone to confirm their geo-location, and presto – the money is transferred to them, via PayPal.
Sending and receiving a gift via GiftRocket is incredibly easy, and ease-of-use is one of the main things that the company is trying to address. But there are other benefits too: there’s no card or certificate to carry around; there’s no leftover change on the card; there’s no expiration date.
There is, however, a fee to send a card this way – $1 plus 5% of the total of the card. The works out to $2 for a $20 gift card. While most “traditional” gift cards are free, it’s worth paying a little bit extra in order to have the convenience of GiftRocket and the completely open selection of merchants where cards can be redeemed.
Giftrocket thinks this will be a boon for small businesses too, most of which don’t have gift card programs. Those can cost businesses a significant amount of money, and since Giftrocket actually doesn’t require merchants’ participation, there are no set-up fees. There’s just a snippet of code that, should they decide to do so, businesses can add to their websites to let customers know that their gift cards are “Powered by GiftRocket.”
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Schmidt & Privacy: Google Anyone Other Than Me
Apr 1st
Google CEO and soon to be Chairman Eric Schmidt has made a number of interesting and often controversial statements about privacy. While the official line from Google is that the company is fully committed to respecting the privacy of others, Schmidt has seemingly contradicted that, at one time…
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SEO Remains A Viable Marketing Strategy For Anyone – Search Engine Land
Mar 6th
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SEO Remains A Viable Marketing Strategy For Anyone
Search Engine Land Ah, another SEO is dead post from a non-SEO to get the blood rushing on an otherwise calm weekend. I've been ignoring these more and more lately, but in the wake of Google's Farmer Update, it looks like everyone could use some history lessons. … SEO is no longer a viable marketing strategy for startups Free WordPress SEO Video Series Launched by Ztweet On How to Rank On Google … SEO help: Get your website ranked #1 on Google |
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SEO Remains A Viable Marketing Strategy For Anyone
Mar 6th
Ah, another SEO is dead post from a non-SEO to get the blood rushing on an otherwise calm weekend. I’ve been ignoring these more and more lately, but in the wake of Google’s Farmer Update, it looks like everyone could use some history lessons. Don’t depend solely on SEO, but…
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Anyone For Squirrel Fishing? Stomp.io is Your Social Networked Bucket List
Feb 24th
I don’t know about you, but when I hear the words “Wanna go squirrel fishing?” I think “Heck yeah!” The same would go for a hot air balloon ride, a ride in a wind tunnel or tracking down some bison in Golden Gate park. But how could I get all these ideas?
Stomp.io, explained the company on stage at the LAUNCH conference, is “a social adventure network that lets us find fun things to do wherever we are.” As someone who has a penchant for lists, mobile apps, sharing my adventures with friends and the idea of activities like “squirrel fishing” (I really can’t leave that one behind) Stomp.io is an app I can get behind.
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Stomp lets users both search through existing “adventures” and create new ones and it seems to be based on the organizing principle of “pics or it didn’t happen.” The site gives a basic four-step how-to on how it works:
Step one is to search for adventures on the site, of which there are many, and add them to your bucket list. Once you find, or create, an adventure, you can add it to your bucket list and invite friends along on the site and through Facebook or Twitter. You can also find other Stomp.io members who are interested and see if they want to join you. Next comes the gamification aspect of Stomp.io. Each time you complete a task, you get points, with different adventures giving a different number of “adventure points.” But how do you prove that you’ve completed a task? By taking a picture. As I said, pics or it didn’t happen. From there, you can take these points and earn badges and rewards.
Does it sound game-able? Sure, but who would want to do that? If you’re lame enough to just try to get points instead of finding the famous bushman or riding the lion on the Golden Gate Carousel, then I honestly feel sorry for you.
Stomp.io has both an iPhone and Android app and adventures in New York, Boston and San Francisco. In the meantime, let me know if you want to take a ride in the most entertaining cab ever, because I’m totally down.
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