http://www.socialmediatoday.com/SMC/89288

GOOD STUFF... EXPLAINS WHAT'S GOING ON!

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I found this quick and easy way to become your very own blogger....  Excellent start for all you out there that are interested!

http://www.becomeablogger.com/

Enjoy!

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I should probably go to Twitter or Facebook Rehab!  If you are reading this today, you are probably as addicted to technology as I am...  The bottom line is there is so much interesting and overwhelming information out there about how to effectively Twitter, Tweet and use Facebook that piles in daily! 

I came across another great tip today!  HAPPY READING!

http://www.winextra.com/index.php/2009/04/11/seo-hijinks-come-to-twitter/

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For all those out there that are trying to learn all the new ways of the turn to Social Media and Marketing only... Twitter has absolutely been amazing to me.  I have been trying to understand the concepts and all the different ways you can connect with people and market your company!

Take a look at this if you want some Twitter Pointers... very good information to get into the Twitter Network.

http://www.bookmarket.com/50WaystoTweet.htm

GOOD LUCK!

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I know, everyone makes mistakes and by tripping around the Internet you're face-to-face with hundreds of them every day. When you decided to create your own website, though, I am certain that the thought, "This site will be great" went through your mind several times during its creation.

Websites are like one enormous advertisement. You might not be "selling" a single thing - but that doesn't mean you're not advertising. You have some really great information, or your products are beyond fantastic - if you can't advertise this fact in your web design and layout, though, you won't have any visitors to make the site worth your time.

Nearly half of all your potential visitors and customers are lost when you have a poor web design; if you can't capture your visitors' attention within about 60 seconds of hitting your page, they will hit the back button and move on to another website. Within those first 60 seconds, a visitor will judge your site's content based on how it looks - they are hoping to see professional quality and seek visual clues that tell them what they've found is appropriate to what they're looking for.

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Yahoo may not have announced a redesign, but some bloggers have uncovered URLs for a new Yahoo News layout which includes a “Most Blogged” section.

The list is presumably based off its recently acquired Techmeme-like service, Buzz Tracker, which displays related blog posts and those that link back to an article, but the idea seems a bit outdated. 

The Washington Post had a deal wih Technorati back in 2005, and it now uses a widget by AOL's Sphere that boasts clients like The Wall Street Journal, Time, Reuters, and CNN.com.

Yahoo's attempt differs slightly in that the blog links are a subset of related stories, and do not appear directly alongside the content.   

A "Twittered About" section would make a story more dynamic and timelier than a list of blogs, although a 140 max on text limits the amount of spin.

Regardless, Yahoo benefits by more attention to Buzz Tracker, and the exposure this could provide to bloggers, as Yahoo is still the number one online news site, should make them happy. 

As blogger Amit Agarwal points out, to view the redesign, just change the 's' in the url of a news article to 'story'. While is lasts, anyway.

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These days, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates is known as the most charitable person in the entire world, giving away billions of dollars through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. But for years, Gates was known first for his money and second for a mean streak that flared particularly with women, starting with his mom. In an article bidding farewell to the now-retired top executive at Microsoft, Wired ran down the highlights:

• 1967: Gates, a difficult sixth grader, asks his mother, "Have you ever tried thinking?"
• 1977: On several occasions, Gates's secretary enters the Microsoft building to find him crumpled on the floor, asleep. He continues to live on pizza and is a demanding boss, often fighting with colleagues. Among his favorite responses: "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard."
• 1985: Gates reportedly abuses a female executive so badly that she asks to be transferred.
• May 13, 1990: Gates schedules a retreat for Microsoft company executives — on Mother's Day.

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"When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor." -- Norman Vincent Peale

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Social networking site MySpace will launch a new music service in September,  CEO Chris DeWolfe announced at Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech conference on Wednesday.

The new offering will enable MySpace members to listen to free streaming music as well as purchase song downloads,  ringtones, T-shirts and concert tickets, DeWolfe told an audience of tech executives during an interview with Fortune senior writer Adam Lashinsky.

MySpace - which was acquired by News Corp. (NWS) in 2005 - became a platform for bands to connect with their fans early on, and the company says that 65% of their members currently embed music on their profile pages. But rival social networking site Facebook has begun to overshadow MySpace. According to new numbers from metrics firm comScore, while MySpace still has more users, Facebook is growing at a faster rate. MySpace is hoping the new music service will boost growth.

“MySpace is more about self expression and individuality,” DeWolfe said when asked for his thoughts on Palo Alto-based Facebook. “One of the reasons why we’re investing so heavily in music is that self-expression and music go together so well.”

But MySpace isn’t the only company trying to find new ways to make money off the digital music industry, dominated by Apple’s (AAPL) iTunes.

Robert Kotick, chief executive of game publisher Activision Blizzard, said his company’s popular Guitar Hero game (which lets users play along to their favorite music by pressing colored buttons on a guitar-shaped controller) will soon start selling songs tracks via an iTunes-like music store.

“People are already coming to us for music,” said Kotick, whose Guitar Hero series has reportedly surpassed $1 billion in sales to date. Kotick said that he’s got four or five teams already working on the upcoming music store, but he also added that there are still kinks to work out when it comes to copyright-protection issues.

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BiddingWar.net announced the generic domain name auction on eBay. As Internet domain Liquidation businesses, BiddingFrenzy.net and BiddingWar.net are both responsible for auctioning off the domain name Fighter.net this week at the world's largest online auction site.

It's no secret that premium generic domain name will give the opportunity to create and brand a new identity or as an investment for domainer as prices for generic domain names have been increasing up to 100% per year.

After long discussion with a couple of in-house brokers, auction reserve price has been purposefully set low to encourage bidding, as low as $1 (one dollar). The auction will run for 10 days.

Here are few past-sales record for dot net domains:

Camping.net sold for $60,000
Filmschool.net sold for $49,501
Trabajo.net sold for $34,000
Anonymous.net sold for $35,000
Bajame.net sold for $34,280
Bookmarks.net sold for $32,975

Large numbers of solicited and unsolicited domainers from around the world are expected to join BiddingWar.net to bid and claim the domain.

About BiddingWar.net

BiddingWar.net (http://www.biddingwar.net/) is a domain investment and liquidation business that buys, holds and sells domains on auction-style listings.

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This is a GREAT link to find out what is going on in the Silicon Valley.... 

http://valleywag.com/

This site keeps you up on all of the technology that is "out there" AND upcoming.  I have enjoyed not only reading about the Yahoo Staff Peeing in the Sink of the office Bathrooms, to finding out that the Google Co-Founder is funneling money against the ethical standards of the Company....

Check it out!

web 2.0

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According to C/Net News!!!

 Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said more efficient use of IT is one of his company's main priorities for the future--despite the fact that the software giant has been criticized by some for producing processor-hungry software.

Speaking Monday at the CeBit technology show in Hannover, the Microsoft chief described how the software maker is collaborating with German nuclear power provider Yello Strom. Yello Strom's managing director, Martin Vesper, demonstrated a "Yello-saving counter"--a Vista widget that lets consumers monitor their home power via a PC.

Ballmer explained that PCs and other technology still consume far too much electricity. "The lowering of energy consumption is as important for us as new uses of software and IT for the environment," Ballmer said.

Microsoft cited a study by the U.K.'s PC Pro Labs, which found that for a company with 200 PCs, running Windows Vista on the machines produced 45 tons less of carbon per year than running XP. As far as Microsoft is concerned, Windows Vista is the most efficient operating system the company has delivered.

However, a recent survey by U.S. IT services company Softchoice claimed Vista is the most power-hungry Windows desktop so far. The report said that at Windows XP's launch, for example, the minimum CPU requirements were 75 percent greater than those for the operating system it replaced, Windows 2000. Vista's minimum CPU requirements are 243 percent larger than that of XP.

The Softchoice survey also showed that of 113,000 desktops checked from more than 400 U.S. organizations, 50 percent of the machines wouldn't be able to meet the basic Vista requirements. The U.K.'s Green Party has also criticized Vista for requiring "more expensive and energy-hungry hardware, passing the cost on to consumers and the environment."

Web 2.0/Twitter/Podcast

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I joined Twitter this weekend....  My question is this.  What's the point?  Can anyone help me out here?

It's an interesting concept and also I see it is a community of diversified people.  I even read the Wikipedia on Twitter.

But again, what's the point???    If you can answer this, send me a note at lrowdie1 on Twitter.

Reference:  web 2.0

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When "shopping" for a development company, always pick the one that fits your needs and will be around to follow through! 

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It's the 10th anniversary of the blog!!!  What would we do without them?

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RSS Technology

 
RSS is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines, and podcasts. An RSS document (which is called a "feed" or "web feed" or "channel") contains either a summary of content from an associated website or the full text. RSS makes it possible for people to keep up with websites in an automated manner that can be piped into special programs or filtered displays.

Basically there are two types of RSS readers: 1)Web based, such as the Google Reader. 2)Program based. There are lots of RSS reader programs you can download to run directly on your computer. In either case these RSS readers give you a handy interface to simultaneously monitor your favorite feeds from multiple sites and sources. Just follow the directions for each reader.

RSS drives targeted traffic to your website. This lets you have information imported, stored and managed in your browser or reader. If you have industry specific content that is constantly being updated and merged by an unlimited amount of interested parties, you are constantly boosting your search engine rankings on Google, Yahoo and MSN. Put the important content right in front of your prospects.

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Using A News Feeder component, you can put exciting news on your website and drive other PR companies to pickup your news feeds.

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Almost all of our clients that we talk to are interested in learning more about blogging and  yet the fear of not knowing what to say was holding them back.

Here is a secret about blogging; most of us have absolutely no idea what we are doing when we start.  Seriously.  And here's another secret; there is always something new to learn.  That is the beauty of blogging and social media, we create by sharing.  We find our voice by communicating with others.   It's not about figuring out what you can say, it's about communicating with others.  When you start sharing and connecting with other people, you will find that your blogging voice was always there, but now you'll have the confidence to share it with the world. 

And don't worry if someone disagrees with what you might say, that WILL happen.  And when it does, it will likely lead to some excellent discussions!  If everyone likes you, then you don't know enough people. 

So if you are in this place, you are curious about social media, but have no idea how to participate, then start by observing.  Start reading blogs that cover your industry.  Leave comments as you find posts that interest you.  I stressed this point during my Blogging for Business presentation, that you do NOT have to blog, but you MUST monitor the blogosphere.  Know what is being said about you and your industry. 

Start small, take baby steps, be curious.  But if nothing else, don't let the fear make the decision for you.  The true beauty of blogging is that it gives everyone the chance to have a voice, and it would be a shame if you let fear rob us of the chance to hear yours.

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There are thousands of technology Web sites out there, but Weblogs are your e-ticket to becoming an industry insider. Want to find that impossibly thin cell phone or high-resolution digital camera? Or perhaps you need to get briefed on the digital privacy and copyright debates or learn how to fortify your inbox against spam? Bloggers are talking about it. In fact, the posts on veteran blog Slashdot often break technology news. Earlier this year, the site was first to flag America Online's controversial privacy clause for its AIM service that read, in part, "You waive any right to privacy. You waive any right to inspect or approve uses of the content or to be compensated for any such uses." Besides breaking news, you'll find information on tech trends you can't pick up elsewhere and well-articulated arguments about all things tech. These sites all share limitless curiosity and passion for covering all that is next

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