Monday, November 16, 2009

The 7 Harsh Realities of Social Media Marketing Discussion: Inbound Marketers - For Marketing Professionals | LinkedIn:
  1. No one is reading your blog
  2. You’ve got to give (some of) your best stuff away
  3. It will eat your life (if you let it)
  4. Social media hates selling
  5. What they say is a million times more important than what you say
  6. You don’t get to opt out
Inbound Marketers - For Marketing Professionals Group News | LinkedIn: 10 Overlooked Twitter Tweaks That Can Mean Big Things For Your Brand
Lullabot Podcast 80: Top 40 Drupal Modules Revisited | Lullabot: "this time with a list of 50+ 'must have' Drupal modules. Enjoy this epic 2 hour podcast!"
Google Code Blog: Google Analytics API on App Engine Treemap Visualization: All the code has been open sourced on Google Project hosting. I also wrote an article describing how this application works making it easy for developers to use this example as a starting point for new data visualizations and other Google Data projects... For the data retrieval part, this example uses the App Engine Java SDK and the Google Analytics Data Export API Java Client Library to retrieve data from Google Analytics. The example code implements both unsigned AuthSub and registered OAuth authorization methods... For the visualization part, I used the open-sourced Protovis SVG Visualization Library to create the Treemap. This JavaScript library is maintained by the Stanford Visualization Group and excels at creating brand new visualizations from a data set (in this case a boring HTML table). To handle all of the interactions, including rollover, tooltips and slider controls, I used JQuery. Here is the JavaScript source to the visualization part of the sample."

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Memtest86+ - Advanced Memory Diagnostic Tool (via Problems with C:\System Volume Information\tracking.log - Windows XP Support)

Saturday, November 14, 2009

Seattle's Most Walkable Neighborhoods - Walk Score Neighborhood Rankings & Clickable Polygons | groups.drupal.org & CiviMap Module | groups.drupal.org: "the solution to the 'linking a polygon to a node' is Geo. You can load a shapefile in to Geo, and then use it as the 'options' for a cck field."
KML / KMZ data import into MySQL for use with GIS functions
Yordan Pavlov's Blog: Importing ESRI Shapefile data in SQL Server 2008 & SQL Server 2008 Spatial Tools

Friday, November 13, 2009

Shape2Earth: Shape2Earth: Getting Started: "does not require the purchase of any additional GIS software or licenses. The only things needed are Shape2Earth, Google Earth, MapWindow GIS (a free and open source program) and the shapefile data you want to view."

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Buy Text Link Ads With These 101 Sneaky Tips On Paid Links | Search Engine Journal: "One thing I tried to demonstrate in this article is that you can take virtually every organic link building technique and achieve the same thing with money. You can earn links to your linkbait or you can buy them or both. You can develop relationships with bloggers, Wikipedia editors, hubpage curators etc… Or you can pay them."
YouTube - googleanalytics's Channel & Google Analytics Blog: Google Analytics Now More Powerful, Flexible And Intelligent: "Analytics Intelligence: We're launching the initial phase of an algorithmic driven Intelligence engine to Google Analytics. Analytics Intelligence will provide automatic alerts of significant changes in the data patterns of your site metrics and dimensions over daily, weekly and monthly periods. For instance, Intelligence could call out a 300% surge in visits from YouTube referrals last Tuesday or let you know bounce rates of visitors from Virginia dropped by 70% two weeks ago. Instead of you having to monitor reports and comb through data, Analytics Intelligence alerts you to the most significant information to pay attention to, saving you time and surfacing traffic insights that could affect your business. Now, you can spend your time actually taking action, instead of trying to figure out what needs to be done." & Dashboard Best Practice – Google Analytics Intelligence Report | Pointy Haired Dilbert: Charting & Excel Tips - Chandoo.org

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

ClickTracks Optimizer Web Stats Software

Saturday, November 07, 2009

Small Business Resource Center and Small Business Templates from Xerox - flyers, coupons, brochures, newsletters, postcards, business cards, letterhead, invoices and more: Small Business Templates
FireFox for SEOs: Working with Several FireFox Profiles (via 3+ FireFox Addons to Access the Page Text-Only Version)
SEJ Tools: The Advanced SEO Toolkit | Search Engine Journal: Research Any URL or Domain Page Rankings, Analyze Domain Basic Stats, Analyze On-Page Data, Manage and Monitor Your Link Building Campaign, Add and Manage Content, Monitor Your Reputation Across Numerous Sources, Monitor Your Brand Across Forums, Check Where Your Brand Name Should Be Reserved, Monitor Your Keyword Positions, Analyze Your Traffic Stats, Manage Reports and Users