FriendFeed: "FriendFeed helps you discover and discuss interesting stuff that your friends and family find on the web."
friendfeed.com/ EDIT: Actually this seems to be bit old news, for some reason I have totally missed launch of FriendFeed. Is it still hot?
Twitterfeed: "... feed your blog to twitter"
twitterfeed.com/ - Notice: for your followers on Twitter, it is not necessarily good idea to feed all your blog posts to twitter. But it is your choice how to do it.
Are there better tools for both purposes?
I guess both can easily lead also into information overflow.
If you're into social networking, check also power.com ...
Follow me on twitter and subscribe to this blog if you found this information useful.
FYI... all these links I found via my own Twitter network. ;)
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Bad web usability - lesson 1 : Position of latest blog post.
Ok. I have had it enough, I'm not saying my site is perfect either, but I have recently stumbled into so many usability pitfalls and bad designs, that I can't stay quiet anymore...
Go to http://miekejanssens.com/blog/ ... try to click for different posts. What happens?
Exactly. Your latest blog post should allways start from top of the page. People are not going to see it, if they have to scroll for it.
This blog has +500 followers on Twittercounter... how it is possible? Probably good content, sorry I didn't find it.
miekejanssens.com is not alone, I have stumbled to many other blogs with this same irritating problem. If you want to have some fixed content on top of the page, be rational and minimalistic.
Go to http://miekejanssens.com/blog/ ... try to click for different posts. What happens?
Exactly. Your latest blog post should allways start from top of the page. People are not going to see it, if they have to scroll for it.
This blog has +500 followers on Twittercounter... how it is possible? Probably good content, sorry I didn't find it.
miekejanssens.com is not alone, I have stumbled to many other blogs with this same irritating problem. If you want to have some fixed content on top of the page, be rational and minimalistic.
13 years old wonder kid Carl Ocab, scam or hot prospect?
Quote from Blog of Famer:
"Carl Ocab is a young Philippines blogger that makes 4 figures USD monthly from the internet.
...
I’ve read some of the advertisers’ testimonials, including a very impressed testimonial from one of the best internet marketers, Alvin Phang from the famous (? there is 42 members on Phang's mybloglog community) AtomicBlogging.com. They claimed that they’ve actually earned more traffic and leads after putting up their blogs’ banners at CarlOcab.com. And you guess what; some even gained more than 400% profits in return! Now I have to say, if you want to improve your blog traffic, you shouldn’t concentrate only on writing good contents, but also advertise at Carl’s blog!"
Read more and check some comments here. Also website which is hyping Ocab, claims they have good google ranks for their website, but on their networking site there is pagerank checker banner which shows rank 1 ( when scale is 1-10 :D ) for their site and actually I made google search with Tyler Cruz and I didn't get Blog of Famers Cruz page on top 10 search results.
I'm not saying it couldn't be possible to make such earnings, but since BoF website doesn't really convince me, maybe the story about Carl Ocab is just sort of hype scam?
"Carl Ocab is a young Philippines blogger that makes 4 figures USD monthly from the internet.
...
I’ve read some of the advertisers’ testimonials, including a very impressed testimonial from one of the best internet marketers, Alvin Phang from the famous (? there is 42 members on Phang's mybloglog community) AtomicBlogging.com. They claimed that they’ve actually earned more traffic and leads after putting up their blogs’ banners at CarlOcab.com. And you guess what; some even gained more than 400% profits in return! Now I have to say, if you want to improve your blog traffic, you shouldn’t concentrate only on writing good contents, but also advertise at Carl’s blog!"
Read more and check some comments here. Also website which is hyping Ocab, claims they have good google ranks for their website, but on their networking site there is pagerank checker banner which shows rank 1 ( when scale is 1-10 :D ) for their site and actually I made google search with Tyler Cruz and I didn't get Blog of Famers Cruz page on top 10 search results.
I'm not saying it couldn't be possible to make such earnings, but since BoF website doesn't really convince me, maybe the story about Carl Ocab is just sort of hype scam?
Monday, December 1, 2008
Remember to give your visitors a change for networking.
Let's imagine that you got sudden visitor on your website. A visitor likes your website. So what happens next? Bookmarking your favourite website is really old fashioned way to go.
Probably visitor is looking for possibility to subscribe for feeds and do networking with you, specially if you're both blogging on same niche.
You need to offer this opportunity for networking. It should be available on your website without any extra scrolling or clicking subpages. Best place for offering networking is upper left or right corner on your blog.
I started to use entrecard.com (thanks to kidtechguru for the tip). With Entrecard service, I have already stumbled on interesting blogs, which unfortunately don't offer possibility for networking, I think it is a shame.
Do you think there is missing something important from my website? Please comment and I will check it out.
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