Practice What You Preach

April 1, 2007

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 [...]

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Beg for Traffic – Social Bookmarking

March 12, 2007

With linkbait talk swirling in minds of those looking to capitalize on the Social Media Market, I understand the need for icons which allow users to bookmark good posts on their favorite social media site. But how many are too many? As a good rule of thumb I would recommend keeping your icons or links [...]

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Zamzar – Convert Your Files Free

March 7, 2007

Converting from one file type to another can be tricky. Every webmaster has come across this problem at one point or another. Just moments after realizing the file is in the wrong format a query goes into Google “.XXX to .YYY Conversion.” Many times these niches are dominated by programs that offer that one need [...]

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Inaccurate SEO Class – Offered From Rice University

March 6, 2007

Thats right! You can now take a college course in SEO offered at Glasscock School of Continuing Studies as Rice University. Information on the class can be found here SEO Class. Topics will include the following: Researching the competition Analyzing and optimizing Web pages Submitting pages to search engines Monitoring search engine placement Reporting and [...]

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But Google Needs Blackhat SEO!?

February 27, 2007

If you were trying to rank for a competative term such as Auto Loans how would you do it? The question that always arises when SEO is mentioned are the ethics that are involved. As many know there are all varieties of SEO Black White even Blue. Some extremists believe that anything goes, others believe [...]

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Introducing the Tools of the Week

February 23, 2007

In my recent travels in hyperspace I found a couple gems that have turned out to be life savers. In lieu of this each week, I will be posting a list of the new tools and things that have made my life easier for that week. Each new tool will filled under “tools” hopefully someday [...]

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IMA? – Yes and No

February 17, 2007

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 [...]

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Facebook as an Effective Marketing Medium

February 15, 2007

Recently, Markus and I launched a Valentines campaign on Facebook targeting students in the Central Florida area. The offer was a typical cell phone dating offer, which could potentially be very appealing to many desperate college students. Our budget was small but, our flier ran 10,000 times at the University of Central Florida, 2,500 times [...]

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The Year of the Mashups

February 12, 2007

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 [...]

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Facebook, Targeted Marketing? Maybe Not…

February 12, 2007

Recently, Rae from Sugarrae posted about the rise of Facebook as a targeted marketing medium. As a college student myself I know all to well about Facebook. As an incoming freshman Facebook was just beginning to catch on. I remember spending 2-3 hours a day browsing everything from who were in my classes to who [...]

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