OK so it’s finally time for me to come out of hiding and start posting again. Like happens to every prolific blogger occasionally, that pesky thing known as real-life interferes. I’ve finally got a nice tight grip on the reigns, and can take a few moments to re-engage the world through the HitTail blog, which seems to have only been getting better and better in my absence. Kudos to Valerie, Ambar, Adam and all the other (mostly Connors) team that keeps this thing one of the top blogs (more…)
This will be one of the most self-referential posts and blatant examples of HitTailing I have done in a long time. Yesterday, someone in South Africa googled on the exact term I used in the headline of this post. HitTail recognized that we were not fully optimized on this term, and issued it as a suggestion. But when I clicked to reproduce the search, I didn’t see us on that page–understandable, considering it was a South Africa Google Datacenter that it was probably pulling from. So, what to do? I could just click around. But instead…
Using the free FireFox Ran (more…)
Problogger writes an excellent article on “12 Ways to Be A more Interactive and Accesssible Blogger”
Wired discusses Amazon’s cloud computing capabilities:
“Key in your Amazon ID and password and behold: a data center’s worth of computing power carved into megabyte-sized chunks and wired straight to your desktop. Clones of that HP tower cost 10 cents per hour ? 10 cents! ? and they’re set to start spitting out widgets as soon as you uplo (more…)
Hello and welcome to HitTail’s “Web News Hits” where we provide you with a selection of some of the most interesting posts on Web 2.0 and online marketing. Topics of interest to “Web News Hits” include:
* Blogging
* Optimizing your site for search engines using targeted keywords (search engine optimization or “SEO”)
* Social media like Facebook, Digg, Wikipedia, and YouTube
* Content management
* eCommerce systems
* General online news and views
I hope you will join us eve (more…)
April Fools started a day early with this post:
Michael Arrington: ?Why We?re Suing Facebook For $25 Million in Statutory Damages?
?My own personal brand has risen over the years as well to the point where I believe I can say without hubris that I am a very important person. Forbes recently named me No. 2 on their list of web celebrities, for example, and Business Week says I?m one of the 25 most influential people on the web. I?ve also appeared in numerous JibJab videos.?
Then the festiv (more…)
