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Honest Tech Reviews

nick — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:11:55 +0000

Over the past few months, I have been trying a ton of new tech stuff. I’ve decided to start recording most of my adventures so that they may be of use to other people. If you are interested in following them check out my honest tech review’s site.

I essentially just took an old domain that was lying around. Its a pretty good name, that I’ve had for a few years. Figure I’d finally put it to good use. Check it out!

So far I’ve written a couple comparisons. The first two where on SugarSync versus Dropbox and Carbonite vs. Mozy. Hope you enjoy them.

Practice What You Preach

nick — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 17:46:02 +0000

As many may have noticed, my blog posts have seemed to have come to grinding halt. This is temporary, following Markus’s lead I decided to put down the pen and glasses and stop reading and writing blog posts, to inturn spend my time on actually putting my knowledge gained from blogs to good use. Do not get me wrong, there is definitely value in blogs, but there is only so much that one can learn from reading them. 1 ounce of experience is worth 100 pounds of theory. This said if you have intentions of practicing what you read, stop reading and do it.

More posts will be coming shortly. I Promise.

Until then, if you have a start up, you simply must check out Center Networks latest offer.

I subscribed to this feed a few months ago, boy is there some good stuff on here.

Thanks to CN, I will also be posting my review of TapeFailure shortly. So far it looks amazing.

IMA? – Yes and No

nick — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 05:16:10 +0000

Over the past year(s) I have gone through quite a growing phase. I’m starting to learn that as much as I love blogging there are numerous more effective uses of my time. However today. I thought I would update this long forgotten blog and drop a few links to some of the projects we are working on.

As of recent months I have been spending a large majority of my time working on affiliate offers and finishing up college. I graduate this summer from the University of Central Florida. The main affiliate offers I have been promoting are in sectors which do not come and go but are harder to gain traction in. One of these sectors is the Auto Loan industry. It has been pretty hard to get started but I am finally starting to see some return on the time investment.

As far as deep linking strategies go. I have been using social networks to help get my sites fully indexed. One of my sites has nearly 148k pages, so we are really pushing on getting them all indexed. For example you can create an Automotive Reading List on Grazr which can be used to syndicate your posts and help push some extra juice. As always any blogger should sign up for MBL, also known as my blog log. It is fairly effective, join a few groups, get a few friends and post your url. We also set up an Automotive blog log which has all of our most recently posts for one of our many auto loan sites. Hopefully these strategies paired with many that will remain unnamed (until later) will prove effective at getting large sites indexed.

All of this came about a few months ago when I came across a post about deep linking strategies to get new sites off the ground. Today I figured I’d give it a go but, the only issue is that I need a seed site which has some link juice to get started. That is where this old blog came into play. Who knows some day I may come back and start posting on this long neglected blog but until then. Enjoy

The Year of the Mashups

nick — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 06:59:03 +0000

Currently posted on ProgramableWeb.com there are 377 APis with 1538 mashups. This makes roughly 2.99 mashups submitted daily, this seems like an astonishing rate, although I understand their popularity. Many webmasters see this as an easy cash cow. Take two or more API’s made readily available by larger companies and put them together to make something useful. What a great idea, plug in Adsense and you are good to go. I too have been thinking of making a mashup, but more and more the web has become about setting yourself apart. With an already flooded market the question is how to set yourself apart to offer a truly unique service to the end-customer. With more API’s popping up daily it seems the list will keep on growing.

To check out the Mashups that have already been created visit: The Mashup Matrix.

Some useful mashups:

Jason Calacanis the King of Linkbait?

nick — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 06:30:35 +0000

For those of you who haven’t been watching this circus check out ShoeMoney’s post: Calacanis Plays SEO People Like A Fiddle.

I am absolutely astonished at the effect this little marketing ploy has had on the SEO industry. Who would have thought by pissing off a bunch of SEO gurus you could get instantaneous backlinks from well ranking sites and lets not just stop at that, you can get your site optimized with 20-30% more traffic.

I think Calacanis has just been crowned the King of Linkbait.