I know it is a couple months old, but being me, some things need some cool off time, like why in the world is Yahoo! closing Geocities? Believe me, I did need the time. I had to go out of my way to go and download old files before I forgot. Being me, October 2009
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An Afterthought: Twitter Verified Accounts
With threats to sue last in June 2009 from people like the St. Louis Cardinal’s manager, Tony La Russa, Twitter has come up with verified accounts. Mashable was among the many that reported on this change after Twitter introduce the verified account feature and their reaction to the increasing impersonation attempts. Right now, verified accounts
[Continue Reading...]How To Appreciate Your Web Developers
Let us face it, web developers can be under-appreciated. Most offer their work for free and ask for nothing. The problem is, some of these developers come up with great things. What spurred this topic on… well, the topic came up in the WordPress group in LinkedIn. It was apparent that I was not the
[Continue Reading...]SOB – Successful and Outstanding Blogger
I recently saw in my blog links that Liz Strauss had linked back from her site Successful Blog, to my site and when I followed to see, I found that she had picked me for a SOB – Successful and Outstanding Blogger. I was really surprised as it has been a while since I have
[Continue Reading...]Facebook Username Ordeal Analogy
I just had to say it. I already said it on Twitter, but this whole big deal with Facebook coming out with usernames was really dumb. There was so much hype into it that I felt like people would be seriously worried about their username being taken. It kind of sounds like when you hear
[Continue Reading...]A Nifty SEO Story
If you look up the term ‘#1 douchebag‘ in Google, you will find that Micah Baldwin (@micah on Twitter) holds that spot. This is because he asked people to link to him using that term as an anchor link. Some people would probably shake their head, but after hearing his presentation at WordCamp Chicago 2009,
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