Monday, January 18, 2010

CCK Mashup -- Oh The Things You Can Do! | DrupalCon DC: "We'll look at ways to combine CCK with other modules to do interesting and exciting things, including:
  • Protect fields with Content Permissions.
  • Add fields and relationships to Views.
  • Insert fields and groups into Panels.
  • Generate field data with Devel.
  • Populate fields from feeds using Feed API.
  • Make clickable maps into input widgets using GMap and Location.
  • Inject pictures into fields using Flickr."
Analyze This! Using the Google Analytics API | Lullabot

Friday, January 08, 2010

Drupal and Apache Web Site Security Checklist, part 3 | Nadeau Software: "In a 2009 report (PDF), White Hat Security reports the top ten vulnerabilities in sites they tested. Number two, with a 47% likelihood, is Information Leakage. Vulnerabilities of this type come in many forms. They needn't just include obvious problems, like posting credit card and social security numbers to public pages. Other information leakage problems reveal information about the site's software and configuration, such as the model and version number of the software, host names, IP addresses, logins, and passwords..."
IKEA: Facebook Showroom Number 8 - Interactive (video) - Creativity Online: "Forsman and Bodenfors turns Facebook tagging into a promotional tool for the opening of Ikea's new store"

Wednesday, January 06, 2010

Tuesday, January 05, 2010

Thursday, December 31, 2009

How To Track Google Keyword Rankings In Google Analytics
Usability.gov - Guidelines - highly recommended by Steve Krug, author of Don't Make Me Think book
Behavioral Targeting & Google Analytics: How To Create Personas
netconcepts.com - Outsourcing and Delegating: "Tim even admitted in my recent interview with him (available here as a 25-minute audio podcast for your listening pleasure) to sleeping under cubicles and in his office." & Living The 4-Hour Work Week: Outsourcing My Life: "Last week I started the quest to outsource my life. I decided that waiting 20 days for Get Friday was longer than I wanted to wait so I turned to Elance..." & GetFriday and the Cost of Success: Exclusive Letter from the CEO: "New personal outsourcing services popped up to fill the demand, and the niche industry of personal outsourcing is now big business."

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Feed Flipper: Free iTunes Podcast to RSS Converter (view on Google Sidewiki) - Feed Flipper is a free alternative to iTunes which converts an audio iTunes podcast into an RSS XML feed. The resulting URL (the Feed Flipper URL + your iTunes podcast URL) is then available to be subscribed to directly into your RSS feed reader of choice for ongoing podcast delivery.

Interesting Developments: Prioritizing Podcasts with Google Reader » from earth2marsh: "If you use iTunes, you can stop reading… but I have a Nokia N800 tablet, and Canola can’t handle the atom feed from Google Reader. Yahoo Pipes to the rescue"
2010 : A New Age For Search Marketers | Search Engine Journal: "What makes this change so important is that the future of search, whether it be Search “2.0″ or Caffeine oriented, is based on much more than the relevancy factors of content, links, queries and relevant infrastructure. This new “Search-o-morphis” brings factors into play which include site usability, site mobility, the presence of the site socially and also more and more offpage factors which go beyond traditional linking."

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

YouTube - Google Analytics New Features Webinar: "We've recorded the webinar so you can share it with others or watch the webinar again on our Google Analytics YouTube Channel. We also wanted to update you on the Annotations feature. While all other features discussed in the webinar should be available in your accounts now, the Annotations feature will become available in January 2010"
Free Web proxy security tools software testers should get to know: "The two that I've found beneficial Burp Proxy and WebScarab... There's third proxy option called Paros Proxy. I've had mixed results with Paros but many others swear by it."

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Official Google Blog: Making URLs shorter for Google Toolbar and FeedBurner & Introducing Google’s Own URL Shortener | Search Engine Journal: "Google is taking the URL shortening thingie on a different approach – via Feedburner and Google Toolbar."
The Local Search Engine Optimization Cheat List | Search Engine Journal: "This post is an effort to give you a clearly defined and easy to comprehend guide on the steps to optimize your business for local search: enjoy!"

Tuesday, December 08, 2009

Guide to Hiring Voice-Over Talents and Voice Producers Online | Resource Center Voice123 - The Voice Over Marketplace - Voice Overs, Voice Actors, and Voice Talents
Google Analytics Blog: Holiday Bonus: More Great Features & Analytics Talk » Blog Archive » New Google Analytics Goals
Google Sends Out Decals with QR Codes | Search Engine Journal & QR Code - Google Favorite Places: "Make sure your phone can scan a QR code with its camera, either with an application that you download or via software that's already installed on your phone. To find out what application to use for your phone, we recommend doing a Google search for the model of your phone along with "QR reader." Some of the applications that we've found to work best include beetagg, neoreader, QuickMark and Barcode Scanner."" & Official Google Blog: Place Pages for Google Maps: There are places we remember!

Monday, December 07, 2009

#1138 (Crash when starting downloads...) - DownThemAll! - Trac: "In your Firefox profile folder there is a file called dta_queue.sqlite. Delete that file, and your dTa queue will be wiped clean."

Friday, December 04, 2009

Real Estate Champions - REALTOR PROfiling System - contact info is not mandatory to see the results

Tuesday, December 01, 2009

Spatial DataBox: "The Toronto Flex User Group kindly allowed me to present on the topic of Google Maps for Flash & Map Mashups at yesterday evening's Shindig. (Click here for a copy of the presentation)."
gmaps-utility-library-dev - Project Hosting on Google Code - Nice collection!
Google Geo Developers Blog: Mapsicle 1.0: Annotating Street View Panoramas

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

How to Work with Google Services While Offline: Detailed Overview | Search Engine Journal: "To access all (but one) Google services listed here while not online you will need to install Gears FireFox addon which lets web applications interact naturally with your desktop and stores web data locally in a fully-searchable database."

Saturday, November 21, 2009

Email Marketing - MarketingGenius Resources, Provided by Genius.com & Genius Plug-in 3 for Outlook - Help - User Guide: "As the Genius Plug-in for Outlook embeds unique tracking information in each e-mail, it is not advisable to forward or resend a Genius e-mail. Instead, create templates for commonly used e-mails. Microsoft Support Article ID 258256 describes how to create and use e-mail templates." - Very interesting!

Friday, November 20, 2009

E-mail Marketing Framework | drupal.org: "Plugins for Campaign Monitor and MailChimp are already provided."

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Twitter for Marketing & PR
Installing & Configuring the Activity Stream Module for Drupal 6.x | BrianStevenson.com & Daily Twitter | drupal.org
Design View - Flashy Graphs Sans Flash: "Let me introduce gRaphael -- Raphael's little brother. While 'Raph' is an all-round vector-drawing guy, gRaphael sticks to what he does best: drawing slick, animated, web-based graphs without the need for Flash." & Design View: "I'm sure some are already chorusing, 'What about using Flash?' Without wanting to delve into the time-honored flame wars of the pros and cons of Flash, there's at least one clear reason for preferring Raphaël/SVG. WebKit has very good support for Raphaël, meaning any Raphaël-based effects you create will work seamlessly for the ever-growing iPhone market. Currently, the iPhone, Android OS, and even Palm's groovy new Pre fail to support Flash in any way, and there are a lack of indications that this will change any time soon."

Monday, November 16, 2009

HOW TO: Measure Social Media ROI
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."

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

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

Sunday, November 01, 2009

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Drupal Knows Best? The White House Debate Continues | techPresident: " We linked yesterday to a piece from Slate's Chris Wilson in which he made the case that White House's switch to the open-source content management system Drupal for its WhiteHouse.gov site and related projects was a horrible, miserable mistake. Now Conor McNamara, developer with the web firm DPCI, offers a point-by-point refutation of Wilson's main arguments, rooted in Drupal's admittedly unique way of doing things. Where Wilson says "Drupal knows best," for example, McNamara counters with, "No, Drupal is cautious about which users can do what, and with good reason." McNamara also more eloquently explores something we rambled on about yesterday: that whatever Drupal's challenges and quirks on the back end might be, what matters is the end users' experience with WhiteHouse.gov. Worth a read."

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Prowl push notifications | drupal.org: "This is a Drupal module that provides support for Prowl, which is a push notification client for the iPhone. It relies upon ProwlPHP."
GoTwitr - Twitter Automation Site Built with Drupal | drupal.org: "Everything related to Twitter eats bandwidth, so we knew site optimization would be important. To keep overhead as low as possible, we used only the Drupal libraries that were absolutely necessary. Next we installed APC so our php would execute faster. Memcached was installed next, and we used the excellent Memcache module to integrate Memcached with Drupal. APC + Memcached = approximately 300% increase in speed."

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

How to create a mobile version of my Drupal 5 and 6 site? & Mobile resources | groups.drupal.org & a Mobile Web Blog | Making mobile web sites with Drupal
Drigg - your Digg clone software, in Drupal: "For a test site, see: http://www.drigg.org or http://www.fsdaily.com" & Replace Drupal Planet and Drupal Talk with Drigg | groups.drupal.org & Drigg For Drupal 6 Under Development Again Thanks To Tony Mobily | Social CMS Buzz: "With popular sites like DesignBump and WPscoop both showing whats achievable with the Drigg system it’s no wonder more and more website owners are switching to Drigg or launching their new project based upon the system. You may also notice both of these sites upcoming pages are not crammed full of spam like every pligg install on the web including v1.0.0 installs, Drigg actually has protection from spam in the form of a few fantastic modules like Spam, AntiSpam and Troll which is a massive advantage over Pligg."

Monday, October 19, 2009

HDIV (HTTP Data Integrity Validator) - HDIV eliminates the risk originated by Cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks using generic validations of the editable data and CSRF attacks using Anti-cross site request forgery token.

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Small Business Tips and Ideas from Xerox: "Quick Tips for Document Design, Management and Workflow"

Sunday, October 11, 2009

Saturday, October 10, 2009

Microsoft Advertising Intelligence: "Visit the Microsoft Advertising Intelligence Community Forum to find out what people are saying about Advertising Intelligence. Also, pick-up tips, troubleshoot, share your feedback and connect with other users and members of the adCenter team. Learn more about Microsoft Advertising Intelligence: Advertising Intelligence Installation Guide (PDF, 212 KB), Frequently Asked Questions Guide (PDF, 365 KB), Advertising Intelligence Launch New Feature Guide (PDF, 936 KB), Advertising Intelligence Onesheet (PDF, 442 KB)."

Friday, October 09, 2009

Re: [pdt-dev] How to install 'org.eclipse.php_feature': "PDT 1 needs Eclipse 3.3 and PDT 2 needs Eclipse 3.4.
What you can do is:

* install one of the official Eclipse bundles (http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/) manually (just unzipping somewhere in your filesystem) and then add PDT there
* install PDT 'all in one' (http://www.eclipse.org/pdt/downloads/) also unzipping
* install using Pulse (http://www.poweredbypulse.com/)

If you only need PHP IDE second method is the best. I use Ubuntu and always installed Eclipse with 1st method and never had problems with that."

Tuesday, October 06, 2009

HazteK Software Blog » New Application: Zune Playlist Converter
FoxySEO: A Quick Way to Access Multiple SEO Tools | Search Engine Journal
My Freelancer’s Toolbox | Mogdesign
Build iPhone Compatible Drupal Websites Using iWebkit: Part 2 | Sumit Kataria | CivicActions: "This second post in my series of tutorials on mobile themes for Drupal focuses on how to implement automatic user-agent detection and switch your base theme to a mobile theme."
Faceted Search | drupal.org: "provides a search API and a search interface for allowing users to browse content in such a way that they can rapidly get acquainted with the scope and nature of the content, and never feel lost in the data. More than a search interface, this is an information navigation and discovery tool." & Faceted Search vs Solr? | drupal.org
Drupal v. SharePoint from a Developer's Viewpoint | Mediacurrent

Saturday, October 03, 2009

How to Subscribe to Your Twitter Stream with Google Reader | Search Engine Journal: "ReadTwit is a cool online tool that exports your Twitter stream into Google reader into a very neat way: it filters your twitter feed to links only, resolves link destinations and publishes the content as an RSS feed."