July 2010
4 posts
DevHub • Free Website Builder: Turn your passion... →
LaterBro.com - Schedule Facebook and Twitter... →
Kajabi: Push Button Marketing →
Kajabi was developed for Marketers, BY Marketers. Our first goal is to simplify the deployment of Marketing Campaigns, Sales Funnels, and Product Launches from their current technical complexity down to Drag-and-Drop Ease.
Kajabi’s second goal is to streamline, simplify, and reduce the cost of deploying membership portals and controlled access (Paid or Unpaid) community sites so...
May 2010
1 post
Kickstarter - Decentralize the web with Diaspora →
I just became a $50 supporter.
April 2010
4 posts
brightkite.com - Group Text...I like this! →
New! Welcome to Group Text
Free, unlimited, group text messaging.
- Start a conversation with a group of friends - when anyone replies, everyone gets the message
- Free unlimited texts to any US cell phone
- Works worldwide
“The most interesting thing Taylor said was that Facebook’s stance is that social...”
– I Think Facebook Just Seized Control Of The Internet
“Workamajig® is the most powerful and innovative project management software for...”
– Workamajig® - About Us
“Conventional business wisdom breeds paranoia. If you don’t get big fast,...”
– More great advice from Jason. Thanks @jonathanpenn for the link!
Driven to Distraction -Jason Fried is co-founder of 37signals, a Chicago-based software firm, and co-author of the book Rework, which was published in March. This is his first column for Inc.
home (entrepreneurcommons): peer-support for... →
Entrepreneur Commons™ is a not-for-profit for and by entrepreneurs, dedicated to helping them through peer-support groups.
March 2010
10 posts
2 tags
Groundcrew - The platform for location-based... →
Groundcrew is a web product, an iPhone app, and an API that helps your people organize everything from recreational sports to eldercare to political campaigns across location-based communities, enterprises, and customer pools. We make it easy to connect local people, build movements, and track the results.
Tweet forwarded by dougcraver
@hnshah: Social media experts are just people who can’t design or build.—@trentwalton /via @jbrewer Twitter Link: http://twitter.com/hnshah/statuses/10547556200
“Later today, Twitter CEO Evan Williams will be interviewed by Umair Haque of the...”
– Twitter Expected To Take The Wraps Off Its Advertising Platform Today - So long ad free Twitter :-(
WatchGreat work by Kyle @nowlink. A great example of Strategic Doing…
clevelandstartup:
Spent a few hours yesterday afternoon with members of Cleveland’s own Makers Alliance down at Goldstein Caldwell & Associates. GCA is the temporary home to the Alliance’s Hackerspace, where they spent a majority of the day yesterday building a Makerbot. What is the Makers Alliance? What is a...
“CLEVELAND, Ohio — Moody’s Investors Service on Wednesday downgraded...”
– Moody’s Investors Service assigns negative outlook on Cleveland’s debt | cleveland.com
Tweet forwarded by dougcraver
@samirbalwani: Android Market Share Exploding: Up 4.3% Since October http://goo.gl/fb/EVQs Twitter Link: http://twitter.com/samirbalwani/statuses/10294967280 Sent via SocialScope Lite (www.socialscope.net) Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry Posted via email from the_mobilized_life | Comment »
Make Word, PowerPoint and Excel Work Like Google... →
Cool and now part of Google.
Painless, real time sharing and simultaneous group-editing of Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel and Word documents.
February 2010
23 posts
Location Will Be This Year’s Twitter At SXSW →
Three years ago, Twitter famously was the talk of the conference (it won the web award that year). While sure, it didn’t explode into mainstream popularity until sometime later, the writing was on the wall for the early-adopters who started using it there or shortly thereafter. Two years ago, it was arguably Twitter again that was the must-use service throughout the conference as it continued to...
“This year, Google will introduce 550 or so improvements to its fabled algorithm,...”
– Exclusive: How Google’s Algorithm Rules the Web | Magazine
“Pillars One and Two [titled WOW Makeover and There’s No Place Like Home]...”
– This is classic Cleveland tech scene stuff. Did you drink the Kool-Aid? George Nemeth obviously didn’t.
CoolCleveland.com | Aand Qwith Cathy Panzica
Grogger | Crowdsource your Content →
Use a Grog – a “Group Blog” – to publish the best content of an entire community of contributors. Increase the quality and quantity of your content. Boost your users’ engagement. Dominate your topic.
Proposable.com →
Create and deliver web-based sales proposals in minutes. Be notified instantly when your proposals are viewed. Know exactly what your recipients are looking at and start selling in real-time!
“LeMieux invented the generator after convincing his wife that he should quit his...”
– America’s Most Promising Startups: A Portable Generator Powers a Startup - BusinessWeek
“GreenRoad proves what a lot of smart investors have been saying for a while...”
– Al Gore Joins Richard Branson in Backing GreenRoad
“But that boon comes at a price. As the media theorist Marshall McLuhan pointed...”
– Is Google Making Us Stupid? - The Atlantic (July/August 2008)
Dump the clicker. Use your Droid as a remote...
Pay attention FiOS TV customers. Verizon has just released a Mobile Remote Widget that makes it possible to control your television directly from a Motorola Droid. The new app is designed to replicate the FiOS remote and will work from anywhere in the home through your Wi-Fi network. The same HD set-top box controls like pause, rewind, and DVR settings found on a remote are also be available...
“Piryx Non-Profit brings to the Jon Bon Jovi Soul Foundation the opportunity to...”
– Piryx - Payments for the Social Web | Platform | Non-Profit
hollrr.com - Shout about the things you love →
On a mission to help people discover great new products and services
We all love to discover great new products and services
The discovery of an awesome new product makes our day! It makes us happy to find out that someone has been thoughtful enough to create something that brings us joy or solves a problem we had.
The majority of these discoveries come from the recommendation of a friend....
Wufoo: Online HTML Form Builder - Contact, Survey... →
Very COOL!
What is Wufoo?
Wufoo strives to be the easiest way to collect information over the Internet.
Our HTML form builder helps you create contact forms, online surveys, and invitations so you can collect the data, registrations and online payments you need without writing a single line of code.
Scribe: SEO Copywriting Made Simple →
With Scribe you’ll:
Optimize content faster
Remove SEO guesswork
Employ SEO best practices
Preserve maximum readability
Increase targeted traffic!
Will Google ‘Send’ a mobile, social Gmail...
The Wall Street Journal reports that Google will tomorrow announce more “social” features to Gmail, such as status updates and sharing content. Considering that Gmail is a primary, free email service, this is a really great innovation for consumers. It also threatens dominant, dedicated social networks like Facebook and Twitter unless they too can be integrated into the Gmail social streams....
Facebook Pages, Groups and Profiles Explained –... →
This is one of the best overviews I’ve seen yet that includes a quick reference table of the features of Profiles, Pages and Groups.
Posterize.us
via posterize.us
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extendr.com →
You’ve got links everywhere, for everything. Now you can easily share them all with one URL: yourname.extendr.com.
Your .extendr account is highly customizable, allowing you to organize URLs as you see fit. Use it to re-engineer your resume or portfolio. Use it as a temporary home page. Use it to neatly synthesize all that you are, online. It’s up to you, and it’s easy to do.
Far-reaching applications of mobile downloads -...
Number of mobile applications downloaded:
2009 : $2.5 billion
2010 : $4.5 billion
2013 : $21.6 billion
Revenue generated (consumer spend and advertisements):
2009 : $4.23 billion
2010 : $6.7 billion
2013 : $29.4 billion
Downloads in 2010 that will be free : 82 per cent
Source: Gartner
via irishtimes.com
Posted via web from...
“Facebook is the world’s leading social network, with over 300 million...”
– The Facebook Guide Book from Mashable
Free or Cheap Tools for Startups that Make It...
corkshare:
One of the main keys to startup success is to stay lean - you don’t want to get caught up in any unnecessary expenses. The entrepreneur’s financial motto should always be “If you don’t make money, don’t spend money.” A lot of what made CorkShare possible, and many other startups possible, are the free tools available to help us take care of business. Here are some great examples of...
January 2010
28 posts
How to Create a Custom YouTube Background for Your... →
Like any social network, your business presence there should be branded and recognizable. You’ll want to ensure that people finding your videos and clicking on your channel know where the content is coming from.
Drupal Gardens | Get a Free Drupal 7 Site Here →
Another great tool for building websites with the ease of starting a blog.
Recessionomics 101: How to Make Extra Money →
I’m working with several business partnerships on these very same action items. Whether you’re an individual or business you should plaster these 3 key ideas on your wall.
Sell It
Rent It
Say It
Do It
WooRank | Website analysis tool →
WooRank is the fruit of much hard work by online marketing consultants, clockwork-precision developers and creative designers. Together they’ve built a simple yet powerful website analysis tool meant to leverage search engines.
Now web professionals have an objective yardstick to know what Google looks for when crawling their websites: WooRank
Plancast: "...has instantly become San Francisco’s... →
Plancast is a service for sharing your upcoming plans with friends. It’s a social calendar of sorts. Just submit the things you’re thinking about doing in the future, and your friends will be able to hear about them - and maybe join you, too!
Deliverables vs. Delivery
hiten:
52weeksofux:
Wireframes, flow diagrams, personas, card sorts, content strategy documents, etc. All of these things are important to design, and designers need some combination of them to synthesize their user research and communicate what they’re doing with the other members of the team.
But too often these deliverables are the last line of contact for designers. Too often these...