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What We Do When We Find Someone Else’s Cell Phone
Mar 9th
Some of us have had to deal with losing our cell phones but Symantec decided to do some actual research to find out what the finders of these phones actually ended up doing. They literally dropped the 50 smartphones in five different cities: New York City; Washington D.C.; Los Angeles; San Francisco; and Ottawa, Canada. They were left in high traffic public places such as elevators, malls, food courts (as shown above), and public transit stops. All but two of them were accessed by the folks who found them, and only half made any attempt to return them.
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The researchers deliberately put fake data on each phone with tempting document names such as “HR Salaries” and 80% of the finders took a look to see what was in these files. Half of the finders tried to run what looked like a remote access app to see if they could connect to the corporate network. (That was just another head fake and didn’t lead to any actual connection.)
While a depressing account of the trust in our fellow man, there are some good things to come from what Symantec calls its “Honey Stick” experiment. (The name is in reference to honeypots, a tried and tested security process that leaves an open server someone out on the Internet for hackers to abuse and take control over.) Obviously one lesson learned from this experiment is to make sure you password-protect your phone. This isn’t that hard to do. Second is to have some kind of remote-wiping app once a phone is lost. Third, make use of find-my-phone features such as what is now available on modern iOS devices.
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How to Find Converting Keywords (And Put Them to Work)
Mar 7th
It takes all kinds of keywords to make up a website, from head terms to the long tail, and different types of keywords accomplish different goals. Some drive tons of traffic, others are important for establishing authority. Then there are the keywords that convert. If you’re trying to sell a product or service through your [...]
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SEO For Shrinks: Can Potential Clients Find Your Practice Online? – PsychCentral.com (blog)
Mar 7th
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SEO For Shrinks: Can Potential Clients Find Your Practice Online?
PsychCentral.com (blog) By Julie Hanks, LCSW Do therapists really need to care about search engine optimization (SEO)? If you're in private practice the answer is YES! So, what is SEO? SEO is the process of improving your website's visibility in search engines like Google, … SEO can benefit users in a variety of ways A 4 Step Approach to an Improved SEO Ranking Content Strategy for SEO: Tips to Ensure Success |
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New FREE Tool Alert: Find Broken Links and Errors
Mar 2nd
Throughout the years I’ve been reviewing several broken link checking tools like Xenu (desktop), LinkAider (paid), Link Checker (free but quite limited) and others. While we seem to have a few alternatives to identify broken links in our pages, all of them are quite limited: No good reports (While I do love spreadsheets for many [...]
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SEOCompanies.com Announces Significant Success in Helping Clients Find the … – Albany Times Union
Feb 24th
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SEOCompanies.com Announces Significant Success in Helping Clients Find the …
Albany Times Union Will Schneider, founder and CEO of Insight Quote, announced the company [SEOCompanies.com] has experienced great success in matching up clients with the best SEO firms. Will Schneider, founder and CEO of Insight Quote, announced the company … |
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How To Find Link Prospects Without Using Google
Feb 21st
I’m obsessed with Google. (I mean, you kind of have to be if you’re in this industry.) But sometimes, you need a break from the hand that feeds. There’s no denying the power of advanced search queries, but you’d be surprised how many other and different prospects you can…
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User-Centric Design is Great, Just as Long as You Find the Right User
Feb 8th
My friend and colleague Esther Schindler has written a wonderful post over on SoftwareQuality Connection about encouraging user-centric design. The only trouble is figuring out the right set of users that your software is designed for. Put another way, this is the classic programming problem: the person who hires you (or who sets up the job) isn’t the ultimate end-user audience for the actual program.
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Schindler mentions the Abomination That Is Taleo as Exhibit A. For those of you that haven’t been in the job market lately, this is one of the go-to apps that employers use to collect resumes and screen applicants. The only trouble is that its UI is bad, really bad. As she says, “Features and functionality that would give joy to the most common hands-on-the-keyboard user (the hundreds of job applicants applying for a given position) may not even appear on the list of application requirements.”
And having agile programming practices can actually remove programmers from the ultimate consumers of the app, because you write so quickly and get close enough in your first build that you stop doing anything further. Or don’t get to have any further discussions beyond the initial meetings, if you even meet with your programming team at all, because the budget for the project gets cut.
Some of the problem is the Dilbert-ization of corporate life, where a boss gets the overview and the devil is in the details. Part of it is the level of communication in modern companies can be frighteningly bad, as work teams are more distributed and we all have more work to do as layoffs have decimated most IT departments.
It is a great article, and one that you should email to your boss when it comes time to put together your next project. Along with the appropriate Dilbert cartoon, of course.
N.B.: The agile turtle is from Sarah Maddox’ FFeathers blog.
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How To Find That 1 Thing You Lost Online
Jan 26th
Argh! What was that video called? Was that on Twitter or Facebook? Where did I save that article? Who was it who made that joke about the Edsel? Do you find yourself asking these questions often? As we get wrapped up in more and more Web services, things tend to get disorganized.
We’ve got inboxes over here, inboxes over there, boards here, there, tweets, docs, posts and shares. It’s almost too much to keep straight. Fortunately, there are little helpers out there. I’ve found two I love, and I’ll show you how to use them. One is free, the other is in closed beta, but there are invites below! If you’ve got other suggestions, please feel free to share them in the comments.
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Greplin: For Finding Your Stuff
Greplin is the way I find that one online thing I’m looking for. It’s a fast search engine that can index a whole bunch of common cloud services many of us use. Once it’s done crawling for the first time, you don’t have to wait for a second. You type in your search query, and Greplin brings back an organized list of everything in your cloud-life that matches.
It can search Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Reader and Google Contacts (as well as the professional Google Apps versions). It searches Dropbox, of course. It searches Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and LinkedIn. It’s got Delicious and Pinboard. It has Yahoo Mail. It even searches Reddit. And these are all free. Premium users can search Evernote, Yammer, Salesforce, Basecamp, Highrise and Campfire. All of these services in one search.
Some of them you have to unlock by inviting friends. That’s okay. Invite your friends. They’ll thank you for it.
Here’s Greplin in action:
Yes, you’re reading that right. My Greplin has (at press time) 1,106,324 documents in it. Every search is instantaneous, though. I can filter the results by service (Twitter, Google Reader, whatever) as well as by type of content: events, files, links, messages, notes, people and streams. Clicking on each service on the left sidebar tells you its status and how many items are indexed.
Greplin’s premium service is $4.99 a month or $49.99 a year. But basically every consumer service, and even the Google Apps service, is available for free. Evernote is in premium, and that’s a very tempting hook for power users. But it’s amazing what the free version of Greplin can do. In addition to the Web version (which works on mobile), there’s a free iPhone app, and it’s killer.
What About Sensitive Stuff Like Logins & Passwords?
User names, passwords, ID and credit card numbers are hard to remember, too, and we need to use them often online. But it’s not a good idea to keep those in a cloud-hosted service like the ones Greplin searches. It’s best to keep those in a secure service if you’re going to store them on your computer at all.
Today I found out about Dashlane, which will do just that. It’s a desktop application for Mac and Windows that will remember all your sensitive info so you don’t have to. It’s also just a convenience; it plugs into your browsers and lets you fill in Web forms with your saved information automatically. It’s like 1Password, which is available for Mac, Windows, iOS and Android, but the features are a little simpler.
I’ve taken it for a spin. It’s easy to set up, and it’s very secure. It lets you store your contact info, various forms of ID, credit cards and Web accounts. It’s also good for shopping online and lets you speed through the checkout process. When you’re filling out a form on any Web page, boxes that Dashlane can fill in have a little gazelle (or whatever its mascot is) icon. You click it and drop the info in. No need to remember it or even type it out.
Dashlane is not quite open to the public, but here’s a link for RWW fans to get it now! I’ve been using it all day, and it makes everything faster.
What other services do you use to keep yourself sane online? Share them in the comments.
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CES 2012: Find All The Gadgets With Google Maps for Android
Jan 10th
If you’re attending the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) this week and have an Android phone, you’ll be able to use Google Maps to navigate inside the Las Vegas Convention Center. Select resorts and casinos on the Las Vegas strip are also covered, as is McCarran International Airport.
Google has also partnered with some Las Vegas-area Best Buy stores, so it can guide gadget-addled convention-goers straight to the cash register. Today’s update also releases the floor plans of some of the first locations submitted to Google.
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The update to Google Maps for Android that launched in November contains indoor maps of participating locations. Google is extending its mobile reach until it can be the end-to-end provider of finding what its users are looking for, period.
There’s a mobile arms race heating up here. Apple’s Siri intelligent search assistant on the iPhone 4S skips Google and goes to Yelp when you search for a local place or business. Apple has also been snapping up 3D mapping technology. Meanwhile, Bing Maps has provided inside mapping since August of last year.
Mobile mapping inside buildings is an important trend, but Google has an advantage of scale. As the map provider for the biggest smartphone platform and the iPhone (for now), the majority of smartphone users are comfortable with Google Maps.
To understand the value of this strategy, look no further than Google’s partnerships with Las Vegas-area Best Buy stores during CES. Google has a piece of every step of the sales process except the cash itself, and it wants in on that, too.
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How to Find Streaming Movies
Jan 4th
Back in October, I compared the various online streaming services here and Netflix looked like it had the most offerings. But what if you want to search across multiple providers for your streaming content, and find out which one offers you the best deal? Enter CanIStream.It, a free iPhone app from Urban Pixels that allows users to search for movies. It is a great idea whose time has come.
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We’ve written before about how poor Netflix’ own iOS app is here, particularly when you compare it to the full Web version run on the desktop.
You can see an example of its search results screen here. The streaming search app has been recently improved and now can search across Youtube Movies, Blockbuster, Vudu, and Crackle as well as Amazon, Hulu and Netflix. The new version adds the price of each movie rental or purchase, and you will be amazed (or maybe not) at how these differ depending on the particular movie and service involved. Urban Pixels has added the ability to embed a search result widget on third party websites so blogs and other movie review sites can put a widget on their site that shows where the movie is available. And they are working on an API so developers can use their results in their own apps.
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