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Re: Lowering the Barrier For Data Aggregation Using Alefo

Isis — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:52:13 -0000

I am sure your wife must have thanked you after wards(seeing the results)!

Re: Social Media Strategic Management From Concept to Practice

ngan hang — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:39:28 -0000

Good writing, Thank you, James.

Re: Rescue Time With a Productivity Monitoring Tool

James M. Helms — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:29:31 -0000

Thanks Harry, I will take some time and check it out.

Re: Rescue Time With a Productivity Monitoring Tool

Harry @ GoalsOnTrack — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:00:40 -0000

For tracking personal/professional goals, you may want to check out http://www.GoalsOnTrack.com, a very nicely built web app designed for tracking goals and todo lists, and has time tracking. It's clear, focused, easy to navigate, worth a try.

Re: Find Better Click Through Link Statistics Data Fast With Budurl

Landon — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:42:25 -0000

I tried to use a budurl in a craigslist ad and the ad was rejected. I had to use the regular URL which I could not track. Has anyone else experienced this? Have any suggestions?

Re: URL Shortening and Click Through Stats Services

Harley — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 23:01:43 -0000

just found Bit.ly.. does a wonderful job of shortening links, super easy to use, very organized, and includes complete realtime click stats with charts for FREE! (no paid accounts.. woot). That is exactly what I was looking for, and just what I needed! Definitely worth checking out and possibly an article?

http://bit.ly/

Bye BudURL.. you just lost me to competition haha.

Re: Online Book Promotion Made Easy Tools of the Trade

Sun Jar — Wed, 13 May 2009 07:52:08 -0000

It is nice indeed that you have decided to share this information with a lot of people. Social networking sites is surely the way to go not just for promotion of products but also to find great people like Yvonne has found you. Great work! Keep it going.

Re: URL Shortening and Click Through Stats Services

Raj — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:44:32 -0000

We recently launched a new website that provides a URL shortening service for "multiple" websites:

http://www.viewista.com

Viewista creates a short URL for “multiple” websites. Plus, you can view the multiple sites all at once. We think it can be a real time-saver. You can also post comments on the sites and share with your friends, making it a social URL sharing service. Viewista can be particularly useful on Twitter because a user can create a short URL for multiple sites on a topic without having to use multiple tweets.

Re: An Awesome Online Tool For Managing Your Events

bob — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:14:22 -0000

Nice - I had previously used social networking sites like google and gurgle for parents and expecting to organise myself to not much success - this looks a lot more handy!

Re: Screencast’s or Print Screens Free Through Jing

James M. Helms — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:34:31 -0000

Actually Jing has updated quite recently, there is a pro version too.

Re: Find Book Reviews and Recommendations From Community

hannah1980 — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:49:01 -0000

No problem, there seems to be a lot around with the advent of e-books just seemingly around the corner, but this one has a lot of users considering it is so new which is definitely promising. I am the sort of person who avoids the popular recommendations because they are popular (I refuse to read the Da Vinci Code out , but I like to check out the general views on a book before I buy - unless the cover looks really good!

Re: Find Book Reviews and Recommendations From Community

James M. Helms — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:19:34 -0000

I'll have to check it out, thanks hannah1980

Re: Find Book Reviews and Recommendations From Community

hannah1980 — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:57:30 -0000

I definitely think the new media publishing world is on the way up - the best site I've found so far of it's type, although only just out of beta is Book Army.

Re: Monitor Live Updating Filtered Twitter Data

Known People — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:19:07 -0000

Lots of people are developing lots of twitter tools, some of them like this are very insteresting, thanks for sharing

Re: Social Bookmarking Search Tool Offers More Relevant Results

Rod — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:56:02 -0000

Here's a web-based social bookmark search tool:
http://www.junoba.com

Searching the big bookmark sites actually makes for a decent general engine...

Re: Lowering the Barrier For Data Aggregation Using Alefo

Abraham Maki — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:49:38 -0000

this is an awsome blog

Re: Check Your User Name Across Multiple Sites at Once

Virus Protection — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:31:29 -0000

This site is actually kinda cool. It turns out that I'm not the only one to use this name, though it didn't catch my steam account. And it can't check Gmail, Magnolia, Pownce and Uservoice.

Re: Create RSS Feeds From Static Content Using Dapper

James M. Helms — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:29:14 -0000

Yes, finding a consistent pattern of areas on a site can be a little challenging. It really depends on what you are wanting to use it for. If you are just monitoring the site for change selecting the whole page would be easiest. There are a few other tools available to monitor sites as well but Dapper is one of my favorites.

Re: Create RSS Feeds From Static Content Using Dapper

Michelle — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:23:38 -0000

I just used it for the first time too and made a change. I'm waiting to see what the email will look like.
The one thing I found confusing/difficult is that for certain pages on the website it was very difficult to select the correct section of the page. I ended up using a page that has a more regular pattern of content for my test. Did you run into this difficulty? Maybe I should have just selected the entire page?

Re: Social Bookmarking and Research With Delicious

simi — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 07:15:25 -0000

thanks for nice information.

Re: Send and Receive Updates Across Several Network Sites at Once

Jhonna Abarracoso — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 03:53:10 -0000

i cant open my account i want to get it back

Re: Online Book Promotion Made Easy Tools of the Trade

dj2 — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:30:27 -0000

I think you're jealous. This post literally invites one to submit their website or that category would not be there.

Re: The Power of Email Direct Marketing

siva — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 01:37:46 -0000

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Re: Leveraging RSS Feeds and The Sage-Too Addon For Firefox

James M. Helms — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:24:13 -0000

Hey Mike, Thanks for your comment. I totally agree that some of the best tools are also the simplest. There are a lot of options when it comes to aggregators Sage-Too is simple to learn and a powerful way to stay in touch with a lot of content.

Re: Leveraging RSS Feeds and The Sage-Too Addon For Firefox

mikepower — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:05:09 -0000

Great to see Sage Too getting some coverage. I couldn't agreee more with your observations. I've tried all the available Mac RSS readers over the years, some very pretty, cool etc, but in the end this simple little extension trumps them all. If you want bells and whistles there are others out there for you to play with but if you want a usable tool for keeping up with the avalanche of stuff we are now faced with I highly recommend Sage Too. :)