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Should You Be Using Gubb Instead of Remember The Milk?

I recently came across another task/list management web application called Gubb. Now, as you all know, I’m a hardcore Remember The Milk fan. I’ve written extensively about it’s Smart Lists and Tags, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to ignore a good thing when I see it. Also, it seems there are some core features lacking in Remember The Milk, that are pretty important to some people. Here are a few features that Gubb has that are missing from RTM:

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LeapFish: Just Type It, But Will Anyone Use It?

Image001LeapFish is a service that provides search results from multiple search engines all in one place. They have connections with all the major search portals like Google, Yahoo, MSN and others. As you type your search, the results are pulled together using their “proprietary hyper-threading technology” in conjunction with the API’s of each service. Basically, LeapFish is a meta search engine.

We’ve created the first multi-dimensional information aggregator and search portal in the world. Our goal is to gather, organize and render the most relevant information from the internet’s most valuable destinations for each users search, in one single simple shot.

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A Few People To Check Out

I like promoting interesting people, so I posted a message asking for people to send me their links. These are the people that actually responded. If you don’t already follow them, you may want to check them out. I would have liked to link to you as well, but you didn’t respond, so I guess maybe next time. 🙂

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An iPhone Case Won’t Help it Work Better, Will it?

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It amazes me how the most important and basic things can fly right under your radar. I recently had a colleague ask me what they should be doing to promote their content. What should they do to get their blog out there? How should they go about creating a presence on the web? They had researched their blogs PageRank, checked their backlinks, and tweaked their theme. They couldn’t figure out why people weren’t linking to them.

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After an Intense Debate, I’m Back on Disqus

Intense Debate and Disqus   

Intense Debate and Disqus (Image by inky via Flickr)

Let me start by saying that both of these services are great and I value the work they have done and continue to do. I would recommend either to someone looking for a hosted commenting system.

I had originally switched from Disqus to Intense Debate because ID imports comments from FriendFeed. Disqus has been talking about this feature for quite a while now, but it still doesn’t exist. I’m a FriendFeed fanatic. I need this type of integration. The FriendFeed comments plugin has been my main standby for this, but I crave an all-in-one solution.

ZOMG! Where are my comments?!

I was alerted by @nukirk on Twitter that all of my comments had disappeared from my post on the Blackbird browser. Now, as you can see, I do not have a huge blog. I do not get much traffic and I don’t really get many comments, so it was highly unacceptable for all of the comments to disappear from one of my most discussed posts. I tried frantically to restore my missing discussion. After resetting the Intense Debate plugin, disabling WP-SuperCache and everything else I could think of, I just ended up getting rid of Intense Debate entirely.

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Top SEO Tips That Worked For Me

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Image by danardvincente via Flickr

Let me start of by ensuring you that I am no expert on Search Engine Optimization or SEO as they like to call it. I’m just a guy who started blogging and realized I needed to find a way to get more web site traffic. Not really sure how I came to that decision, but I was pretty sure I wasn’t about to pay for search engine optimization consulting. So, here are the things that worked for me.

Use Your Words

If you’ve done any research on SEO, you’ve heard the term “keywords”. Personally, this is one of the words that makes me nauseous because it’s used so much. These are supposed to be the search terms that you want to be ranked in Google for. It helps if you know ahead of time what your SEO strategy is and many search engine optimization companies may be able to handle that for you.

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Diigo Aims to Fill the Void Left By Google Notebook

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With Google Notebook shutting down, many people are searching for alternatives and Diigo is trying to fit itself into this space. Currently, Diigo is more focused on bookmarking and making notations around those links, but they are looking to become more flexible. Diigo’s Lists feature is the closest thing they have to Google Notebook functionality, but is not quite there yet.

Google Notebook is a bit more flexible in that an item does not have to be tied to a webpage. Diigo Lists will soon be upgraded to provide this flexibility and a lot more in the near future.

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Is Your Pride Sabotaging Your Success?

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Sometime last year, I was accidentally listening to the radio. They were talking about a huge job fair here in GA somewhere. Businesses from the airport were featured and the station was interviewing a few people about how things were going. One female complained that there were only fast food jobs there. The conversation went something like this:

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I Have No Excuse for Not Blogging

ShrugSure, I have been busy. Working a lot and spending time with family, but this is all no excuse. It doesn’t take that much time to write a blog post. Am I running out of ideas? No. I’m just not writing any of them down. I’m still writing posts over at BlackWeb 2.0, so obviously is just a case of neglect.

I should be ashamed of myself.

New Blog Layout

I had to change my blog layout. Wicketpixie is a nice theme with some nice features, but it has a few bugs on the back-end and I never did get it to render correctly in IE. I needed something clean and light-weight, so I went with Tarski (thanks mjc). It’s simple, but also has a few configuration options on the back-end.

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