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How To Find FriendFeed Rooms With Google

By Andy Beard | Published: May 25, 2008

I noticed within the new Problogger room on FriendFeed, Darren mentioned the following:-

â€œfeel free to invite others to this room - as long as they are bloggers and/or are interested in the ProBlogger type topic I'm happy for anyone and everyone to join. I've invited all my contacts on FF. Pity there's no list of public groups for people to join.â€

Whilst there isn't a public list, in many ways Google with a site search query these days provides a very real alternative.

Posted in blogging tips, web 2.0 | Also tagged friendfeed, friendfeed rooms, Google, lifestreaming, search, technology, web2.0 | Comments closed

Fast Company Beta Tips

By Andy Beard | Published: January 29, 2008

Lee Odden was kind enough to invite me to the Fast Company beta, I assume he just imported his contacts from LinkedIn or Gmail (I hope he didn't use Gmail because of security risks) so I have had a snoop around, added a profile and this blog to their list of feeds. From what I can tell they have been live for over 1 month now, it is possible I received invites before and didn't respond to them, along with the other 20+ invites I seem to receive to every new social networking platform.

I thought it would be worth writing

Posted in SEO Blog, web 2.0 | Also tagged fast company, fastcompany, Social Media | Comments closed

Open Web Awards – Call for Nominations

By Andy Beard | Published: November 28, 2007

The Open Web Awards are now open for nominations until the 6th December, and this stage of the proceeding is quite open plan. The current 28 blogging partners (increasing daily) have been provided with a list of categories to accept nominations for, and it is down to each blog to decide how to proceed with collecting nominations, whether to make individual posts for each category, or to handle things from a single post. Voting will take place in a much more refined manner.

Mainstream and Large Scale Networks
Applications and Widgets
Social News and Social Bookmarking
Social Search
Sports and Fitness
Photo Sharing
Video Sharing
Start Pages
Places and Events
Music
Social Shopping
Mobile
Niche and Miscellaneous Social Networks

As I loosely focus on niche marketing, with an emphasis on Wordpress, Blogging and SEO I am hoping that we can get some nominations for some of the more niche players.

Posted in web 2.0 | Also tagged mashable, open_web_awards, social networks, technology, web2.0, widgets | Comments closed

Technorati Topics Announced & Bugs

By Andy Beard | Published: September 11, 2007

Technorati have added a new "topics" feature to their front page and menus.

It updates live, in a similar way to Truemors.com and various widgets such as the one for Netscape.com

Topics are split between Entertainment, Technology, Politics, Sports, Business, and Life and apparently blogs have been selected based upon Technorati Authority, frequency of posting, use of relevant tags, links to related subject matter and general topicality.

In theory some of my content might appear within both the Technology and Business sections, but that remains to be seen.

Is Technorati Topics Useful?

In theory it is spam free but it is also elitist

Posted in blogging tips, web 2.0 | Also tagged blog_search, opml, technology, technorati, technorati_favorites, Technorati_polular, technorati_topics | Comments closed

Facebook Marketing

By Andy Beard | Published: September 4, 2007

I spend a fair amount each day on Facebook these days, and in part there are 2 people to blame, Sherman Hu and Tinu Abayomi-Paul.

Sherman has launched an excellent Beginners Guide To Mastering Web Basics group on Facebook

Unlike most Facebook groups, Sherman has already uploaded some real juicy video content.

Aug 30, 2007 Thurs: Uploaded 15 Videos (Web Publishing Basics:601 Series) Tip: Look for this starting video: "Web Publishing | 601.1 - Quickstart | 03'15"

Aug 28, 2007 Tues: Uploaded 9 Videos (Graphics Basics:501 Series) Tip: Look for this starting video: "Graphics Basics | 501.1 - Quickstart | 01'27"

Aug 24, 2007 Fri: Uploaded

Posted in marketing, web 2.0 | Also tagged facebook, facebook_marketing, marketing, web 2.0, web2.0 | Comments closed

Best Wordpress Plugins (April 2007) | Poll

By Andy Beard | Published: May 2, 2007

I have opened up the voting for the second round of my cash giveaway for Wordpress plugin authors.
Nominations for the Best Wordpress Plugin each month are made by my readers, and half my income from paid reviews is given away as donations to help support development costs of the best Wordpress plugins.

Posted in blog monetization, blogging tips, plugins, wordpress | Also tagged donations, geek, gpl, pay per post, review_me, sponsored_posts, wordpress, wordpress plugins | Comments closed

Best Wordpress Plugins – Nominations and Results

By Andy Beard | Published: March 17, 2007

I earn money from this blog, but as I have hinted in the past, that isn't my primary goal. I write paid reviews for products that take a fair amount of time, but nothing compared to the amount of time Wordpress plugin authors spend on their creations, only to give them away for free and often still provide support.

Admittedly I have been a little lax with my donations to other authors, though I have invested money in plugin development, only to publish the plugins myself under a GPL license, thus in my own way giving to the community.

What I have

Posted in blog monetization, blogging tips, plugins, wordpress | Also tagged donations, geek, gpl, pay per post, review_me, sponsored_posts, wordpress, wordpress plugins | Comments closed

Technorati Can’t Cope With Twitter, coComment, Blog Networks, and Blog Rolls

By Andy Beard | Published: March 12, 2007

Technorati simply can’t cope with new forms of blogging and RSS feed generation. I am not talking about splogs, which seem to still be rampant, and reblogs, likewise, but totally legitimate alternative unique content sources that are effectively blogs.

Posted in blogging tips, stats, web 2.0 | Also tagged 2000 bloggers, blog, blogging, cocomment, geek, rss, syndication, technology, technorati, technorati_links, technorati_ranking, twitter | Comments closed

Twitter | Google Toolbar Button

By Andy Beard | Published: March 10, 2007

Just added a new toolbar button to my toolbar buttons site for Twitter addicts.

There has been so much talk about Freebase.com, but Twitter.com seriously should have some kind of health warning – so many people are becoming addicted.

Posted in Google, Projects, web 2.0 | Also tagged friends, geek, Google, google-toolbar, google-toolbar-buttons, messaging, rss, search, sms, social networks, toolbar-buttons, twitter | Comments closed

Can You Really Take Search Engine and Technology News Seriously?

By Andy Beard | Published: February 4, 2007

There is currently a case running in the Danish courts that will effectively decide the law in Denmark for linking to a page other than a home page, typically known as deep linking.
We are not talking about hot-linking, pulling an image or video off someone else’s server into the middle of your own content, but linking as you might to this blog article, using the permalink.

Posted in SEO Blog, news | Also tagged blogger, britney_spears, deep_linking, global_warming, krak, link, linking, news, paris_hilton, robert_scoble, search, search_engine, wikipedia, windows_vista | Comments closed

How to Get Better Technology Search Results and News

By Andy Beard | Published: January 22, 2007

Carefully Selected News Source

What would be better than Robert Scoble’s OPML file?

The Best Search Technology

Google Custom Search Engine gives great search results, and quite often gives better results than the main index.

Posted in Google, marketing, web 2.0 | Also tagged geek, gooble_toolbar_button, Google, google_cse, google_toolbar, megite, meme, robert_scoble, scobleizer, search, search_engine, technology, web 2.0 | Comments closed

Web 2.0 Marketing | Convergence

By Andy Beard | Published: January 13, 2007

I love being the catalyst that encourages some level of convergence between different web 2.0 platforms. Actually this is the first time it has happened with web 2.0, but it has happened for me in other topic areas.

Posted in web 2.0 | Also tagged convergence, megite, mybloglog, technology, web 2.0 | Comments closed

MyBlogLog Tricks

By Andy Beard | Published: January 10, 2007

I noticed a useful trick to show more of the people who have visited your blog recently over on Digital Inspiration.
This is extremely useful to help you spot contact whores who are just sending you contact requests without ever visiting your blog. There are scripts out there to do this now, so be on the lookout.

Pixelotto failing?

By Andy Beard | Published: January 2, 2007

Pixelotto, the follow-up by Alex Tew to his MillionDollarHomePage.com success is now one month old, and facing rapid decline rather than explosive or even sustained growth. Detailed Analysis.

Posted in marketing, web 2.0 | Also tagged alexa, alex_tew, email marketing, markeing, membership_site, milliondollarhomepage, million_dollar_home_page, msn, pixelotto, pixel_advertising, traffic, viral marketing, viral_list_building, web 2.0 | Comments closed

Alexa stats now lagging by 6 days

By Andy Beard | Published: November 29, 2006

Lots of people snub Alexa for providing statistics that are easily gamed, or lack relevance for the global market. As an example Jason Calacanis was recently proposing to test different ways Alexa can be gamed..

Posted in SEO Blog, marketing, web 2.0 | Also tagged alexa, google_analytics, statistics, technology, tracking, traffic | Comments closed

Google are killing the future of RSS

By Andy Beard | Published: November 3, 2006

An RSS feed which you subscribe to is your personal subscription to a service, just like email.

A private subscription service for text, audio and video content, even involving a paid subscription fee has been possible for more than a year, based upon RSS.

Posted in Google, Uncategorized, web 2.0 | Also tagged aweber, email marketing, email_delivery, exclusive_content, feedmagic, feed_magic, getresponse, Google, google reader, linkblogs, link_blogs, mailing_list, paid_subscription, podcast, podtech, robert_scoble, rss, RSS Reader, rssemail, rss_email, rss_syndication, scobleizer, spam_blog, splog, splogger, web 2.0, web2.0, windows_vista | Comments closed

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