As you probably know by now, I’m a HUGE advocate of keeping your eyes and ears to the street, using tidbits of information to direct your online ventures. So when I saw an article on Yahoo named “Hot in recession: Cheaper wine, chocolate, Spam” I knew I had to click. Instead of guessing where interest [...]

I just saw this article on TechCrunch about a new Google service called “Google Squared” that puts results into databases based on customized columns that you decide. Watch the video, taking particular interest at about 3:30 in, and if you’re a scraping kinda guy/gal you’re probably getting a little hot and bothered:

I’d like to make [...]

Thought some of you might like to know that the Digg Toolbar just launched:

With an url shortening service included, it might help take digg into the next age of social media as it’s been getting a lot of hate lately, especially with Twitter kind of taking over all the hype. I’m not a huge Digg [...]

I use Google Reader religiously. You should, too. If you’re looking for content to write than perhaps my system will help you depending on your web strategy. Personally, most of my “big” sites are information based sites with blogs and forum communities. How do I stay on top of the news?
I make a folder for [...]

We all agree that pagerank means pretty much nothing in the grand scheme of things. But there are still PR whores out there who pay close attention to the PR of their sites for a variety of reasons:

It still provides some type of measuring stick
Advertisers use it to value a site, so we have to [...]

I don’t have a massive amount of fake twitter accounts - it’s not my style but more importantly, I don’t have the skills to get the job done. But I know some of you out there are creating twitter accounts by the dozens, hundreds and maybe even thousands. This opportunity is for you.
I just heard [...]

This is a short-term idea so you’ve got to act quickly. No guarantees on this one - but with some hard work and a little luck you could make a lot of money.
Conficker C is a computer virus that aims to take over the entire interwebz on April 1st, 2009. I literally JUST saw the [...]

Like most people, I use Google search almost exclusively for my web searches. But I frequent Yahoo as well not only for my email (I’ll switch completely to GMail at some point) but also because I seem to like the news stories and cyclic format on the homepage. I had to laugh when I saw [...]

Does this bother you as much as it bothers me? In Google Analytics, when viewing traffic from specific keywords souces, I’m sure the 00:00:00 Avg. Time On Site has bothered you at one time or another. Here is an example of what I mean - the following shows some Organic Google search traffic to a [...]

Everyone is always looking for “The Next Big Thing”. Well, combine that with another cliche - history is destined to repeat itself - and mix it with a crappy economy and what do you have? The resurgence of the poker, casino and gambling niche.
Saying the United States Economy is in a state of shock would [...]