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Sunday, March 3, 2013

What is Your Myers Briggs Social Media Type? [INFOGRAPHIC]

What is Your Myers Briggs Social Media Type? [INFOGRAPHIC]: "It is an assessment based on Carl Jung’s theory of psychological types that looks at what kind of characters people have and is broken down into four categories: extraversion or introversion, sensing or intuition, thinking or feeling, and judging or perceiving. These assessments are extremely accurate if taken properly and essential to group constructions for projects and group dynamics."

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What To Expect From Facebook's Shiny New News Feed – ReadWrite

What To Expect From Facebook's Shiny New News Feed – ReadWrite: "he cunningly engineered sense of addictive voyeurism is what powers News Feed - and what drives advertising revenue straight into Facebook's pocket. In the fourth quarter of 2012, Facebook raked in $1.33 billion in advertising revenue - a 41% leap.

The last time Facebook changed News Feed in a major way was back in September 2011, "

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What To Expect From Facebook's Shiny New News Feed – ReadWrite

What To Expect From Facebook's Shiny New News Feed – ReadWrite: "Facebook's real-time, algorithm-driven, social ticker is also what makes the social network so confoundingly addictive: When did my college roommate get hitched? Why can't I stop reading about people I haven't spoken to in years and barely knew to begin with?

While Facebook obviously has the hyper-engaged can't-peel-your-eyes-away aspect of News Feed on lock, it's still a confusing, busy page. Managing who and what shows up on News "

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Measuring social media ROI requires identifying social objectives | SWOT | Financial Post

Measuring social media ROI requires identifying social objectives | SWOT | Financial Post: "This method takes into account not only short-term goals such as increasing sales in the next month via a social media marketing campaign or reducing costs next quarter due to more responsive online support forums, but also long-term relationship value due to social media investments. Marketers who don’t understand and can’t measure how this relationship influences a customer’s behavior will be unable to get a true picture of social media effectiveness and program ROI.



Fact is, it is very difficult to directly link social media performance metrics directly to business results. Therefore, we recommend managers use measurable social objectives as a bridge between social media performance and business results."

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Want to catch people stealing your website content? Use an RSS honeypot

Want to catch people stealing your website content? Use an RSS honeypot: "his article originally appeared at [article URL]. All rights reserved. If you are not reading this on a personal RSS reader (such as Feedburner) or on [website domain], you are reading a scraper website that has illegally copied and stolen [website domain]'s content. Please visit [article URL] for the original version, along with all its comments.
This way, I could do a Google search for that text string (well, for a part of it -- it is rather long), and discover which websites were automatically copying my site's content."

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Saturday, February 16, 2013

Choose a Wordfence membership type

Choose a Wordfence membership type: "Wordfence is part of Feedjit Inc. based in Seattle Washington in the USA. Our founders are Mark Maunder (CEO) and Kerry Boyte (COO). Feedjit has been providing real-time analytics and real-time ad serving solutions since 2007 and today supports over 700,000 publishers. Our mission with Wordfence is to provide security and peace of mind to WordPress publishers. Please contact us at support@wordfence.com.
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Certified Solution Process

Certified Solution Process: "Step 7: Maintain Compliance with the Authorize.Net Partner Agreement

In the event you breach any of the terms or conditions of the Partner Agreement, Authorize.Net may, in addition to any contractual remedies available to it, terminate your "certified" status and remove your name from the online partner directory until you have remedied the breach."

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Which is better PayPal Shopping Cart or Authorize.net Shopping Cart?

Which is better PayPal Shopping Cart or Authorize.net Shopping Cart?: "About PayPal Shopping Cart
PayPal is great, I personally love it. It is free, easy to use, and there is no monthly fee.  It is a perfect solution for many of our customers.  Like anything it does have its flaws, and there are technical difficulties sometimes, at times it works, others it does not. Let me give you and example;"

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Friday, February 15, 2013

10 Landing Pages that are Crushing it with Video | Unbounce

10 Landing Pages that are Crushing it with Video | Unbounce: "Back in the 1990′s we thought having an animated gif on our web page was the greatest thing since sliced bread, but nowadays using an animated gif is considered a huge FAIL. However, by using video on our websites we are able to still capture the “wowness” of an animated gif with much better bottom line results.

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10 Landing Pages that are Crushing it with Video | Unbounce

10 Landing Pages that are Crushing it with Video | Unbounce: "Back in the 1990′s we thought having an animated gif on our web page was the greatest thing since sliced bread, but nowadays using an animated gif is considered a huge FAIL. However, by using video on our websites we are able to still capture the “wowness” of an animated gif with much better bottom line results.

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Letter Count / Character Count

Letter Count / Character Count: "Useful for your tweets on Twitter, as well as a multitude of other applications, this is a free online calculator which counts the number of characters or letters in a text. Journalists writing your article, students working on your assignment"

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Regular expression syntax

Regular expression syntax: " encoded in the pattern by the use of metacharacters, which do not stand for themselves but instead are interpreted in some special way.

There are two different sets of metacharacters: those that are recognized anywhere in the pattern except within square brackets, and those that are recognized in square brackets. Outside square brackets, the metacharacters are as follows:"

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Character Sets / Character Encoding Issues [Web Application Component Toolkit]

Character Sets / Character Encoding Issues [Web Application Component Toolkit]: "A character is the smallest component of written language that has a semantic value. Examples of characters are letters, ideographs (e.g. Chinese characters), punctuation marks, digits etc.

A character set is a group of characters without associated numerical values. An example of a character set is the Latin alphabet or the Cyrillic alphabet."

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Internet Business Ideas - 8 Businesses You Can Do from Home on the Internet

Internet Business Ideas - 8 Businesses You Can Do from Home on the Internet: "Mastering software, meeting deadlines, and making yourself known are the keys to launching a desktop publishing home business. While some desktop publishers like to meet clients in person and serve their local neighborhood market, a desktop publisher who provides services through the Internet has a much broader market to work with."

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Basic Guide to E-Commerce (Doing Business Over the Internet/Web)

Basic Guide to E-Commerce (Doing Business Over the Internet/Web): "Store Basics
Processing Online Credit Card Transactions With Customers

Online Marketing and Monetizing Your Website

Online Marketing, Advertising and Promotions, and Sales and Service

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Google SEO: How to Get to Page One of Google.

Google SEO: How to Get to Page One of Google.: "What's important is what relevant websites say about your website.

There's a whole collection of myths we at Sparkah.com want to bust about Google and Bing Search Engine Rankings. My video "Google SEO Expert in NYC Explains How to Get to Page 1" annotates the most popular myths you still believe."

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Google SEO: How to Get to Page One of Google.

Google SEO: How to Get to Page One of Google.: "What's important is what relevant websites say about your website.

There's a whole collection of myths we at Sparkah.com want to bust about Google and Bing Search Engine Rankings. My video "Google SEO Expert in NYC Explains How to Get to Page 1" annotates the most popular myths you still believe."

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Learn Three Reasons Why Facebook Sucks From Poor Privacy to Growth

Learn Three Reasons Why Facebook Sucks From Poor Privacy to Growth: " Unless the registered user has manually set all of his or her own privacy settings to stop others from viewing their profiles, seeing their interests and even getting their contact information, the information remains public and is visible even by those who are not friends of the user."

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Sparkah Business Consulting Tackles Marketing, Google, Sales, and Strategic Alliances — How to Business in the World of Social Media and Viral Growth using Guerrilla Marketing Strategies

Sparkah Business Consulting Tackles Marketing, Google, Sales, and Strategic Alliances — How to Business in the World of Social Media and Viral Growth using Guerrilla Marketing Strategies: "Top 100 Guerrilla Social Media Marketing Management Firms and Consultants 2013"

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Tuesday, February 12, 2013

macZOT! | Mac and More Savings Daily! |

macZOT! | Mac and More Savings Daily! |: "I learned the names of fonts and became an instant font junkie. When I got my first computer, the TRS-80, I got into font editing software and started making my own fonts. After attending a few years of art school, I went to college and got a Classical Animation Diploma. I ended up as an art director in the video game business but never lost my love for fonts."

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Getting Started With Data-Driven Decision Making: A Workbook | NTEN

Getting Started With Data-Driven Decision Making: A Workbook | NTEN: "Our recent report on how nonprofits are using data showed that although some organizations are relying heavily on data, a number were doing very little to actually measure their work or use the data to inform other decisions."

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Getting Started With Data-Driven Decision Making: A Workbook | NTEN

Getting Started With Data-Driven Decision Making: A Workbook | NTEN: "Our recent report on how nonprofits are using data showed that although some organizations are relying heavily on data, a number were doing very little to actually measure their work or use the data to inform other decisions."

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Monday, February 4, 2013

How to Catch an Expiring Domain Name—Case Study & Tutorial—Review of Domain Catchers

How to Catch an Expiring Domain Name—Case Study & Tutorial—Review of Domain Catchers: "A few minutes ago I went to secure the name, and it's gone... it's been sold. I never saw it go to Pending Delete... and it's been expired for a shorter period than other domains in my list, they are all marked Expired - Registry Redemption... I have other domains that expired three weeks earlier, less desirable names, and they are still listed as Expired - Registry Redemption.
I believe GoDaddy is gaming this by showing the better names to perspective buyers. Am I wrong ?
The name I wanted expired 11/8/11.
These are still listed in my account as Expired - Registry Redemption"

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A Few Dirty Little Secrets About Backordering A Domain Name - DaveZan.com | DaveZan.com

A Few Dirty Little Secrets About Backordering A Domain Name - DaveZan.com | DaveZan.com: "The idea behind this is is I get around the rule that my registrar can’t actively engage in backordering and “stockpiling” domain names. But I can still do that under my LLC because there’s no specific rule preventing this from happening.

Unfortunately this presents a strong implication, which is another dirty little secret I’ll reveal. Even if you win the auction, there’s really nothing to stop the backorder company from “cancelling” your bid, refund your money, and take the name for themselves.

Now I know this one’s rather farfetched, and I admit I don’t exactly have direct proof. But the reason I mention this is because some people I know have personally experienced something like this happen to them."

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How to Catch an Expiring Domain Name—Case Study & Tutorial—Review of Domain Catchers

How to Catch an Expiring Domain Name—Case Study & Tutorial—Review of Domain Catchers: "A Message from the Sharks
Three days before the domain was scheduled to drop, I received a worrying message in my inbox:

from Arthur Simmons (arthur@prepaidvalues.net)
date Sat, May 29, 2010 at 22:34
subject asiteaboutnothing.com

Priority Domain Availability Notice for asiteaboutnothing.com:
In the next few days, asiteaboutnothing.com will be listed for sale. Since you have a similar domain name, I thought you might be interested in acquiring asiteaboutnothing.com. "

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How to Catch an Expiring Domain Name—Case Study & Tutorial—Review of Domain Catchers

How to Catch an Expiring Domain Name—Case Study & Tutorial—Review of Domain Catchers: "A Message from the Sharks
Three days before the domain was scheduled to drop, I received a worrying message in my inbox:

from Arthur Simmons (arthur@prepaidvalues.net)
date Sat, May 29, 2010 at 22:34
subject asiteaboutnothing.com

Priority Domain Availability Notice for asiteaboutnothing.com:
In the next few days, asiteaboutnothing.com will be listed for sale. Since you have a similar domain name, I thought you might be interested in acquiring asiteaboutnothing.com. "

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How to Catch an Expiring Domain Name—Case Study & Tutorial—Review of Domain Catchers

How to Catch an Expiring Domain Name—Case Study & Tutorial—Review of Domain Catchers: "I was nervous that during that time, Michael would register the domain again. GoDaddy let that grace period run for an agonizing 42 days.

Initial Grace Period Expires: redemptionperiod Status
On April 27 2010, at last, the domain entered the "redemption period". The domain could still not be registered, as Michael had one final chance to renew it, this time by paying a penalty to GoDaddy in addition to the standard renewal fees. I was still nervous. "

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How to Catch an Expiring Domain Name—Case Study & Tutorial—Review of Domain Catchers

How to Catch an Expiring Domain Name—Case Study & Tutorial—Review of Domain Catchers: "Should I, like the article's author, also sign up with other name catchers?

On the contrary. This is the counter-intuitive part. Perhaps Enom and Pool.com are better at catching domains, who knows. But, since they place all the names they catch on auction anyhow, there is no need to sign up with them!"

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Eventually the companies who do this sort of thing, which is possibly bordering on illegal will choke on their own system as they kill a huge source of their income. Without domain speculators, the domain industry would evaporate faster than ether!

Friday, January 25, 2013

Into the Fray: Be afraid, very af... JPost - Opinion - Columnists

Into the Fray: Be afraid, very af... JPost - Opinion - Columnists: "These are all issues which neither Lapid nor Yacimovich have any competence to deal with – or lay claim to any such competence. Indeed, neither gave them any centrality during their campaigns. Yet they enticed almost a third of the electorate to vote for them.

Disturbing drop in national adrenaline?

The fact that such a significant portion of mainstream Israeli voters supported lists that not only deliberately downplayed – but made little pretense of intending to address – matters that impact the very survival of the state, seems to point to a dramatic and disturbing drop in the levels of “national adrenaline.”

For given the immediacy and the intensity of the threats facing Israel, it seems almost inconceivable that the issue of who was best suited to deal with them played such a negligible role in the election."

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It's an unfortunate new set of givens, that today's politicians are only going to address the issues which can make them look good. World-wide politics, global situations of tragic proportion and danger popping all over the world, apparently no longer have an appropriate central place in the arena of political campaigning. It's as if the whole world was a group having some level of untreated ADD or ADHD! 

If a given politician can't answer a political question in under two minutes, then the entire thing gets abandoned. Then, when all hell breaks lose (and it seems like this is going to happen) there will be no accountability, at all for our world leaders, who are more than happy to stick their collective heads into the ground!

Stephen C. Sanders- An editorial response promoting the position of: 

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=300885


Into the Fray: Be afraid, very afraid

01/24/2013 21:32

The election results indicate the Israeli electorate has become dangerously detached from real challenges the nation needs to address.

   

Thursday, January 17, 2013

Angel Finder Org

Angel Finder Org: "Public Access to Court Electronic Records: "PACER CASE LOCATOR

The PACER Case Locator is a national index for U.S. district, bankruptcy, and appellate courts. A small subset of information from each case is transferred to the PACER Case Locator each night. The system serves as a locator index for PACER. You may conduct nationwide searches to determine whether or not a party is involved in federal litigation.""

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Angel Finder Org

Angel Finder Org: "Public Access to Court Electronic Records: "PACER CASE LOCATOR

The PACER Case Locator is a national index for U.S. district, bankruptcy, and appellate courts. A small subset of information from each case is transferred to the PACER Case Locator each night. The system serves as a locator index for PACER. You may conduct nationwide searches to determine whether or not a party is involved in federal litigation.""

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Lessig on the DoJ's vindictive prosecution of Aaron Swartz - Boing Boing

Lessig on the DoJ's vindictive prosecution of Aaron Swartz - Boing Boing: "This was a pretty well known case. It isn't just "Oops, he got some schmucks. Sorry!" Lessig noted that a million dollar defense was needed. This means that a lot of money was approved for this prosecution and a lot of people in power knew about it. So it wasn't just schmucks, it was a system that allows prosecutors to abuse people for political gain. And it is a system that did not exert its oversight when a citizen was being abused and intimidated."

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