In kind of a blend of Twitter, Facebook, blogging and email, Google Buzz is hoping to become your first choice for social networking across all of your platforms. By linking social updates directly with Gmail, Google Buzz has a headstart on most other platforms because all of your email contacts instantly become friends that you follow and who follow you. There are some privacy concerns because this assumes that your email contacts want to be contacted with greater frequency about whatever you decide to post, but it's a tremendous convenience for those who prefer this email integration to expand their social networking circle.
There's a lot at stake for companies whose focus is on user interactions. Twitter and Facebook are certainly taking notice. This point is made clearly in this Mashable article about the good and the bad about Google Buzz. Google Buzz has become a serious overnight threat based on size alone: 38 million Gmail users in the United States (versus 25 Twitter users worldwide) just became friends with one another using a clean and simple system that will take time away from the attention spent on other platforms. Google Buzz is positioned to become a deafening hum in very short order.
The secret is out, Apple came through and satisfied rumors and loyal fans who have been anxiously awaiting the much debated announcement of the Apple tablet computer now known as the iPad.
Continuing the design trend of black glass and aluminum trim, the iPad has been criticized and praised for looking like a larger version of Apple's popular iPhone--it really depends on whether you like or dislike the current design theme that is also present in Macbooks and the iMac line.
I think it looks clean and is noticeably absent of distracting buttons. It's both high tech and simple. The device is slim, light and feature-rich at 1.5 pounds and a half inch thick packing a 9.7 inch screen. It looks good and is designed to feel good (and work "good" too) for as long as 10 hours.
The device is positioned to fill the space between the iPhone and a Macbook or laptop computer. It will have WiFi built in and, if you purchase a device with #G capabilities for an additional $130, you can purchase unlimited data service from AT&T without a contract for $30 a month. The device is not capable of being used as a phone at this time and I'm not sure if Apple or third party developers will add that capability later.
Accessories will include a wireless keyboard, dock and cover/case and other cables for output connection to your media systems.
But the big question is, will I buy one? The price is right, beginning at $499 (the same price as an iPhone without a contract) and equal to many competing netbook products. It will do most of what an iPhone does (except make phone calls and take pictures--which is a pretty big deal), only bigger and arguably better given the larger screen space, memory and technical specifications. It's not as large as a laptop and perhaps more portable with longer battery life.
But that's just it. If you have an iPhone and a Macbook, as much as you might drool over the device and it's good looks and all that you know you can do with it, will it really fill the space and better yet, does the space need to be filled? It does some of what my iPhone does but it's too big to be a phone and doesn't have phone capabilities. I love my iPhone because it's first and foremost a phone and then allows me to do so much more in a device that fits in my pocket. I'd love the screen on the iPhone to be bigger sometimes but that's the sacrifice I make for pocketable portability.
Since it's not as powerful as a laptop, which is what I use for the majority of my work, I would still need to use my Macbook for heavy computing and I even prefer my 27" iMac for really intense internet and business use that requires me to use multiple screens or applications at once. The iPad looks like it might be a phenomenal device but would I really use it and carry it around so that it would be available any time I needed it? As much as I'd like to think otherwise, probably not.
It could be that I already have too many devices. Between my iPhone, my Kindle 2, my Macbook, and my iMac, I've got a lot already invested in technology that meets my needs and that might be overkill for others. The iPad could replace the Macbook and the Kindle, but at significant sacrifice. It lacks the power I need, the dock and keyboard solution is slick but diminishes portability, and LED e-readers aren't as easy-to-read and are a bigger power drain than e-ink even with the iPad's ground-breaking battery life.
To add the iPad to what I already have would cause significant overlap that I can't quite justify even at the outstanding price point. For those who don't have a Macbook and who want to do more online to a greater extent than what you can with a phone or most notebooks, the iPad may be for you. It's the next best thing to having a personal productivity tool, ebook reader and versatile multi-media device all-in-one in a slim, stylish but not quite pocketable do-it-all machine.
Old school Apple Newton fans will be the first in line to get one as soon as they are released. I'm looking forward to playing with one myself, and who knows what might happen a few months from now when the 2nd generation device is released.
Ryan Hodge tipped me off on this tool for those of you who are prolific writers are who want to have a printed catalog of your blog posts. Blog2Print is a relatively cheap, easy and professional way to convert your digital wisdom into hard or soft bound volumes for your archival reference.
While I was enjoying the Christmas and New Years holidays, I had a chance to fiddle with technology and try some new things that kind of blew my mind. I've got a Canon T1i DSLR camera and recently bought an 4GB Eye-Fi wireless card to save me the hassle of connecting the camera to my computer via the USB cable to upload photos into iPhoto. With the Eye-Fi card, whenever I'm at home and connected to my high-speed wireless network, the pictures are uploaded automatically.
That's nice all by itself, but here's where things get really good. I also bought a Sprint MiFi portable hotspot. The MiFi device is about the size of three or four credit cards stacked together and allows you to take a WiFi 3G hotspot with you wherever you can connect to the Sprint network. It's self-contained, wireless access in your pocket that can be shared with up to five devices at once.
So...given the fact that my sister-in-law was planning a Facebook party for her friends (which was an excellent idea and went over fastiscally), and I wanted to take pictures of the event, I wondered if I could use the MiFi and Eye-Fi combination to instantly upload the pictures to a Facebook album as I took them.
And the answer was?
Yes. And it worked like a charm. I logged onto my Eye-Fi account manager, configured access for my MiFi device and created an upload destination tied to a Facebook album set up just for the party pictures. I put my MiFi card into my pocket, took my camera with me and as i took pictures through the night, I checked the site with my iPhone. Before the evening was over, more than 150 pictures were online and folks at the party had already begun commenting on the event as it was photo-journaled.
It’s a new year, which means it’s time to make resolutions, take on fresh challenges, learn new things and change our lives for the better. Perhaps you want to lose 10 pounds, travel more, or get the job you really want?
This is a compilation of almost 30 of the best articles about getting stuff done online.
Most of the links point to resources about improving your brand and increasing your effectiveness with social media tools. Other links are humorous stories or anecdotes while a few deal with everyday problems and internet-based solutions that cut through the clutter.
I'm amazed at how much I learn from fellow bloggers about useful tools on the internet that I may never have come across without their help. That's why it's important to network with others and visit sites like your own to ensure that you stay sharp and don't miss out. Once such site that has me really intrigued is Zemanta.
I discovered Zemanta while visiting a site called Sweet Home Based Businesses by TeasasTips. TeasasTips has been online since 1999 and has been working hard to establish and effective web presence as a full time blogger and social media professional.
Zemanta helps bloggers with finding related content to blog about as they write their posts. The application works in the background of your web browser while also integrating itself within your blogging platform to suggest pictures and links tied to the content you're writing about. It's a free and easy way to provide your readers with additional resources and create new traffic streams for your blog.
This was added to THC (The Hustletown Chronicle--my latest project) as a prime example of an entrepreneur who has combined her passion for social media with her considerable experience in real estate to dominate a niche market. Naomi Trower is One to Watch.
I love automation. Some time ago (apparently I intended to share this much earlier with readers and saved it as a draft post that was never published), I added the Facebook toolbar to my web browser along with changing my publicity options in Typepad. The result is that posts that I make to my weblogs are automatically sent to my Facebook profile page and included in my mini-feeds. I was already importing weblog entries into my notes but this new feature allows for multiple entries from more than one weblog to be listed as mini-feeds that are shared with my friends as updates to my profile. This is great exposure given some recent work I've done to market the weblog within and outside of Facebook. For more you can visit this Typepad link. Instant multiplication of effort across two social platforms and time saved that you can devote elsewhere on your business are goo things.
I requested beta access to the Wibiya site to install their toolbar a day or two ago and received notification and installation rights today.
It took me less than 10 minutes to install the toolbar on my blog with connections to my Twitter page, my Facebook Fanpage and my weblog community. I've watched my dashboard for the application track the number of views and visitor use of the toolbar as folks visit the site and interact with the page.
It's a great tool and I highly recommend to you for your use and integration. The slide up notifications are a special bonus and there's no end to what you can do with such a simple and powerful application.
This TwiTip article explains why the new Twitter retweet button is kind of a big deal. In brief, it means tweets that are retweeted will reach entirely new levels of exposure. It's time to really get your tweet on.
TwiTip has a full and comprehensive post about how and and whether Twitter lists are a valuable feature. The title is lame but the article itself is pretty good. Many lists are beginning to show up on user profiles or through promotion on Twitter. Are they a waste of time, helpful networking aid, useless ego stroker or something else?
My efforts to increase promotion of the blog are continuing to bear fruit. Since September 23, 2009, the blog has had 203 Visits and 396 Page views with visitors viewing 1.95 Pages/Visit spending an average of three minutes and 37 seconds on the site. 84.73% of the traffic has been new visits.
Where the referring sites, direct traffic and search engines were the ordered sources of my earlier traffic, lately I've received more visits directly and from search engines than from referring sites. It's good to know that people are finding me more frequently in search engines but referring sites are a better way to build a word-of-mouth following. Most people who follow me are looking for the fastest way to make a million dollars. I think I'll create a post on that very subject to see how it plays to others searching on the same terms.
Some quick tips on making your blog popular:
Find a way to track your statisitcs, Google Analytics is a great choice--it's simple to use and easy to install. You can also use news readers like Google Reader to create alerts to keep track on online mentions of you blog. If someone is talking about you, you need to know where and why to determine if you're doing something worth repeating.
Add your blog to popular directories and participate in forums that relate to your niche. Submit your blog for a review by other members of the network or forum.
Integrate you blog posts with Twitter and Facebook--comment on other's blog posts and social network pages. Mention your blog in your emails and on your other websites.
Make sure that your social profile pages and forum signatures point back to your blog. This passive promotion works to your advantage when you're commenting on others posts or when someone gets curious and decides to check our your profile.
Becoming popular is a process. Once you determine where your baseline is and how to go about measuring improvements, continue tweaking based on what works and insight from readers on how to make your blog even more attractive. Before you know it, your traffic statistics and readership will start growing right before your eyes.
These are great photo histories of the way things used to be. Think back to a simpler time when we didn't need color screens on cells phones and you didn't need a PDA charger when a set of AAAs would do. Memories...
You may recall my earlier post about installing Google Analytics. The good news is that in less than a month, I've managed to attract 93 visitors to the weblog. As you'll see in the graph below, 33% of those visitors are the result of direct traffic, 42% from referring sites, and 25% from search engines. I'm pleased with those percentages and will work on improving them further.
I've spent the weekend working on various projects that I've put off repeatedly and finally decided to dedicate some time to completing. After importing video from my camcorder to letter writing, compiling a project plan, cataloging photos and cleaning up my hard drive, I have come to the conclusion that the Apple products in my life make doing these things easy and fun.
Apple's software is fairly intuitive and all of the pre-loaded designs are easily customized so that you can make what are already very good templates even better by adding your own text and media. The tight integration of software with hardware can take some getting used to initially but soon becomes second nature. Internet projects involving websites with pictures, video, and music couldn't be easier.
When I'm away from my MacBook, my iPhone serves as a capable replacement giving me full access to my email, my online files, photos, music, contacts, videos and everything else that I could want to carry around in a slim stylish device. I prefer my iPhone 3GS to my Blackberry and any other phone I have ever used and rarely leave home without it.
Like others who love working with Apple products, I'm drawn to the latest and greatest from Cupertino and often find myself walking through an Apple Store to check out what's new and briefly connect with other Mac fans. Although I'm not an Apple zealot who believes that Apple products are completely without faults, I've found that they provide a constantly capable computing experience. Each device provides a rock-solid user interface and delivers on it's promise of being fit for purpose while exceeding expectations.
There is a danger in being too connected all the time but Apple makes being productive fun, stylish, and unbelievably easy while allowing each of us to further explore our creative genius.
I posted this link at the Black internet Marketing Forum to discuss how the Forum and the BlackWebpreneur network are aligned with this weblog in support of collaboration and connections between African American online business owners and technical experts. Check it out and let me know what you think.
It's taken almost six years for me to find a mobile tool that could allow me to blog from anywhere by simply using a cell phone with a data plan. The iPhone 3GS has suceeded where all have failed in the past.
The problem before now hasn't been the iPhone's rendering of websites or wepages--that was first rate from the start. The problem was an inability to cut and paste. Now that the iPhone's latest software includes that feature and even improved it to include seamless copying and pasting of both text and pictures between applications, my remote blogging dream has been realized.
Will I post more often and link more frequently? I'm not sure, but knowing that I can whenever and wherever whether via some of the quick posting applications or from within Typepad directly makes it all the more likely that this blog is going strong for a long, long time.
First things first: I love this camera. A step up from your run-of-the-mill point and shoot camera but not quite as complicated as a DSLR, the Canon PowerShot SX10 IS is the perfect blend of ease and sophistication for creative entrepreneurs. With this 10 megapixel, superzoom camera, you have a wide variety of shooting opportunities at your command in addition to the ability to use the camera as an outstanding video camcorder.
I bought this camera last week and I've been amazed by its picture quality and versatility. I've taken shots ranging from extreme close-up shots where I've had to be careful not to bump the lens against the subject to amazingly clear and detailed telephoto shots of an artist performing on a stage where I was several rows back and couldn't possibly have captured facial expressions otherwise. You can record video while taking pictures with the quick push of a button and use the zoom lens while capturing video with stereo sound.
For entrepreneurs, the marketing opportunities with this camera are amazing. If you haven't been using video on your websites or via posting sites like YouTube, this camera makes it easy as the video you shoot is readily available from your memory card. Battery life isn't a problem since you can use either high capacity, rechargeable nickel-metal hydride batteries (NiMH) or regular AA batteries if your rechargeables wear out and you need something in a pinch. Your product, facility, or people photos will look crisp and clear on your websites and promotional materials.
it's not a pocketable camera but also not quite as bulky as what the pros carry. It doesn't scream tourist and you can be certain that it conveys a message of someone who is serious about thier pictures. Fully automatic for novices and beginners alike but chock full of enough manual options that you can become a serious photographer at your own pace, the SX10 IS is a great value for under $400.
Twitter is a great platform for connecting with others and engaging in
quick conversations or sharing useful information. Many celebrities and
businesspeople use Twitter to provide fans and followers with updates
about appearances or new products and ventures. Using simple text
messages, Twitter has become the networking nervous system for millions
of of 140 character messages sent around the planet every day all day.
Many
people weren't sure what if any benefit Twitter could provide for
productive use. Sure, there are lots of people who provide "tweets"
that are nothing more than global greetings or updates about what they
just ate or where they happen to be the moment. Some of these tweets
are interesting, and many are not but most of the time these tweets
provide some background personality that helps the sender connect with
others who are using Twitter and considering becoming followers.
Value
in Twitter occurs when important and helpful information is provided in
a tweet. I've received value when someone has posted a link that I've
found helpful or when someone has shared an opinion or review that was
particularly pertinent.
IMTips (use #IMTip in a Twitter search)
is my way of sharing value through sharing brief but substantive
internet marketing tips with the Twitter community. By sharing these
tips, I establish myself an an expert that others follow. Once they
follow me and visit my profile, they get a sense of my others sites and
I receive increased traffic and exposure as a result.
Hopefully
you've seen my IMTips and find them helpful. If you would like a copy
of all the tips, please subscribe to my feed as discussed later on this
lens at http://feeds.tweetlater.com/17/icemanbaldy/.
This isn't a long post as it's really a test of the Typepad iTouch application that I just downloaded from the iTunes Application Store. My earlier attempts to blog remotely with a smartphone were never too successful so I'm hopeful that things have improved.
The iTouch is a perfect companion to a smartphone and laptop computer. I was and still am a fan of converged devices, but only to the extent that technology and mobile provider contracts make convergence practical. If my converged device means I'm stuck with the same hardware for two years with limited memory and battery life, then I'd rather have a separate, large-memory, long-battery life iPod for multimedia and a powerful phone for high-speed Internet access and texting. Nothing beats having all your music and videos/movies with you all the time. Wifi on your media device is an added bonus and it seems that the iPod is becoming an outstanding gaming platform in it's own right.
If this post appears in the same fashion as those I post from my desktop, you can expect that I'll be making several more whenever the mood strikes me.
You may recall my earlier post about taking my show on the road and exploring opportunities to share my online expertise with the offline business community. Well, I'm preparing an in-person launch of my marketing firm at a business exposition this summer. I'll be at Indiana Black Expo--one of the largest if not the largest African-American entrepreneurial exposition in the country. As I prepare, I searched for a mind-mapping tool to help me with organizing my thoughts in a free form thinking structure. FreeMind is an open source tool that fills the need nicely. You can see my early thoughts below and I'll add to them over the next few days until I have a comprehensive plan mapped out.
I did this in just a few minutes while watching some TV and sipping on a glass of wine. If you're working on a fairly substantial project where you want to capture the proper level of detail while allowing your creative energies to flow without being constrained by structure, I recommend the use of a mind mapping tool. I'm also a very visual person and the electronic map provides an easy way to save my work digitally while providing some of the graphic benefits of working from a sheet of paper or on a whiteboard.
There's something empowering about getting a new computer. Whether you really become any more productive or not, just knowing that you have a faster, sleeker, more powerful machine is exciting, exhilarating, inspiring and everything else that gets you hyped about all the new possibilities that are open to you with your latest technology.
I've tweeted and posted about my new Macbook over the last few days. It's not even a week old and I've grown as attached to it as I was to my old Powerbook G4 and then some. For those of us who rely on our technology for entertainment and enterprise, being able to talk with my brother via streaming video and audio in realtime over a USB broadband connection while checking my social networking accounts and writing a blog post all without missing a beat was sheer nirvana.
This was just the thing I needed to take my online initiatives to the next level. Will it really make a significant difference? Who knows, but just knowing I have a shiny toy that can handle whatever I can throw at it will keep me actively engaged in finding new and different ways to exploit its capabilities while furthering my entrepreneurial pursuits.
I have a love-hate relationship with Apple Computer.
I love their innovation, style, and ease of use. They make personal computing fun and exciting. The entire purchase experience is a joy from shopping online or at a retail store to opening the creative and consumer-oriented packaging and effortlessly powering on your device. When you purchase an Apple product, you feel special, elitist, and proud of your decision no matter how much you might be criticized for arguably sacrificing design for functionality. Some products may have be faster, more powerful and offer more features but few offer the integration and complete balance of hardware, software, and lustful attraction of what the good folks in Cupertino are able to produce on repeated basis.
I hate that with Apple, you often pay more up front but you get great resale value and long-term use. I also hate when Apple decides to nickle and dime customers with proprietary accessories like spcecial cords or ear phones that only work with their products to generate additional revenue unnecessarily. Still, I find myself coming back each time I vow to never give them another penny whenever I upgrade a product only to find that I have to repurchase all of the add-ons that go with it since none of my old stuff is transferable. Their new stuff is just that good.
I recently purchased a 13" aluminum Macbook, a beautiful and powerful laptop, to replace a four-year old aluminum Powerbook G4. It's the perfect upgrade for my Powerbook and I'm glad that I didn't buy an earlier polycarbonate white or black plastic version of the Macbook that was released two years prior to the latest Macbook. This new Macbook is a less expensive, more feature-rich version of the ultra thin Macbook Air and it is truly a sight to behold. I won't bore you with specs that are available elsewhere on the web, but know that it is a phenomenal machine that will keep me happy for the next four years or more.
So, I'm in love again. My computing experience is faster, smoother, more engaging and hopefully more productive as a result of a new investment. My old and reliable Powerbook will be erased and reconditioned before making its way to Ebay in order to provide a few more years of service to someone who isn't as caught up in the marketing magic as I am.
Long live Apple and the Macintosh...until the next time they decide to screw with my loyalty.
You may remember the old Heinz ketchup commercial and the familiar "it's making me wait" chorus as each character in the commercial waited for the moment that the ketchup would slowly pour from the bottle.
I felt the same way after purchasing http://TheMostPopularWebsiteInTheWorld.com and waiting for two days that seemed like eternity while my new domain name servers (DNS) propagated throughout the internet. If any of you have purchased a domain name for use with an existing site, you know the drill:
You register and purchase the domain
You wait for the domain name to become active through your registrar's control panel (waiting period: one day)
You change the DNS settings to match the server settings appropriate for where your website is hosted (waiting period: two days)
You forward or redirect your new domain to the url address of the current domain (one day)
Some of these steps may happen in less time than what I've provided as waiting periods, but I have yet to complete this process in less than three days.
It can be a little frustrating. If you're like me, you tend to have creative flashes where you want to act quickly on an idea and get a site up and running quickly. You also want to begin getting the world out quickly and a proper domain name is key to your promotional efforts.
Things rarely happen as fast as we would like and propagating the location of a new site across the internet is no exception. If you accept it will be a few days and don't become impatient, you can channel your anxious energy toward making your new site as good as possible so that you have a fantastic debut once your new domain takes effect.
Creating A Memorable Domain Name Ideas for the most creative and memorable domain names often come from asking yourself a question and then checking a search engine for possible answers. If you find that your search keywords or phrase has a lot of results but there is no definitive domain listed among those results, you may have stumbled upon a great domain name opportunity.
Here's a personal example: One day I was wondering what was the most popular website in the world. I searched for the phrase, the most popular website in the world on Google and the search box results showed over 90 million possible results as I was typing the words.
The actual results returned various sponsored ads and a list of links based on others who asked the question or sites promoting themselves as the most popular. Oddly enough, the actual phrase was not being used as a domain name.
So I bought it.
It took a little longer than I would have liked to become active on the internet after I changed my DNS settings, but I'm pleased with my choice. I can proudly proclaim that I literally own http://TheMostPopularWebsiteInTheWorld and maybe it will generate some traffic to my other sites.
I don't know if I'll try to generate revenue on a site with the domain name or if it may become a domain that I flip for a profit some time in the future. For now, we'll just see how much traffic is generated out of pure curiosity and my own small promotional efforts.
Well yes and no. I do find it difficult to stay on top of my ubiquitous internet presence and remain productive at the same time. I'll spend several hours logged onto forums, reading new content, and Twittering into the twilight. There are so many great applications with new applications and applications to manage your applications that you can go completely insane with the best way to keep track of it all. I desperately needed some therapy.
So I decided to create one more forum to add to the chaos.
This forum is different (aren't they all?). This forum is dedicated to social networking addicts who want to know how to best go about their social networking. It's the all and all of tools, tips and tricks to optimize your time online so that you can maximize your life offline. Welcome to OnOffOnOff.com.
Neat name, huh? I bought it some time ago and never figured out how to best put it to use. This new social networking forum is good for me on so many levels. It feeds my need for information on social networking by opening discussion to a larger community of data fiends; it provides another creative outlet and use of a great, free platform, Lefora.com--took me all of an hour to build the site at no cost; and I get to use one of the many domain names I had sitting inactive. Yeah, that's another addiction.
I hope you'll visit the forum and consider joining. End your misery and come have some fun!
It all started with Apple and the 1984 Macintosh. At least that's where it started for me. It may have been even earlier with the fake woodgrain on the Atari 2600 or the sleek metal lines of Radio Shack's TRS-80 pocketable computers, but whenever it struck me that how a product looked was almost as important as its functionality, my little quote about how we are driven to purchase based on the design of a product rang true. It rings even truer today as evidenced by Apple's award-winning products and current mobile phone wars for subscribers and market share that focus on design and interface as distinguishing factors.
Consider the new Blackbery Storm and the king of mobile phone design, the iPhone. Sleek and buttonless, with black bodies with chrome accents, these are just two examples of the stylish mobile phone of today that has become as much a fashion accessory as a communications device. It doesn't matter who you use for service or what manufacturer you fancy, they all are working to develop and market the latest eye candy.
As you prepare for the holidays and commit your hard-earned funds to select gifts for self or loved ones, consider how much of what you're buying is looks and evaluate whether what you're getting is more performer than parader.
I've decided to take on a very complicated project in order to eliminate some early headaches and prepare for greater growth in the future. Over the past several years, I've been happy with using relatively inexpensive monthly hosting for all of my websites, my forum, and my business directory. Things have gone well, but lately as my forum continues to experience decent growth, I've been receiving a number of server error messages that indicate that my shared server space may be smaller than what my current needs demand.
So, I've purchased a virtual private server and now the challenge is moving my domains and databases to the new server while maintaining full functionality and greatest possible uptime for each of my independent sites.
Fortunately, I've got a brother who is much more proficient at this stuff than I am and it's a lesson in outsourcing those things that, though interesting, suck up productive time that you can spend on growing your business and performing tasks that expand your reach and make you money. As much as I'm intrigued by the process and curious about the background mechanics, it's much more effective if I turn this project over to an expert and wait for the magic to happen. As I always say: Optimize Time, Maximize Profit.
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