january 2008

If you are someone that knows me at all you already know that I live for music.  If by chance you dont know me all that well - well now you know. I have always been a huge music fan and this has my concert going growing over the past few years.

Tonight was an extremely good and rare show as some legends took the stage at The Eagles Club tonight.  The mix of the crowd was young, old, male, female and generally just all over the spectrum. There was a 55 year old and his wife/girlfriend standing next to kids that were 15 or 16. I even saw two younger kids with their mom there (they did look a bit scared when the front rows turned into a mosh pit).

The show started to the last Kid Rock show (in Chicago just a month or two ago) that I attended. My brother and I arrived in the freezing cold to the venue some 15 minutes early. I was able to get 2 last minute tickets as the show hadnt fully sold out.

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Well I logged into my email tonight and found a Seesmic invitation code. I have put my initial thoughts down here and will follow with a better and more in depth review in the coming weeks hopefully.

1. Register section is all flash and doesnt seem to let me copy and paste my invitation code. Quite annoying.
2. Why do services make you register and then login? Are you just checking? If you dont require me to verify who I am via an email link this just becomes a stupid step.
3. Login failed… tried on a different screen and it worked. Huh?
4. 10 languages supported - nice. Since my Spanish and German arent all that great - Im sticking with English.
5. When messing with your settings you can use your camera and get a quick snapshot. I wonder how many people are mad that they cant use their 10 year old Glamour shot they have?
6. So great - I entered some info and I see what is around but now what? I saw someone with a video title of “3rd attempt to capture and send”. No help/directions? I personally dont like to read them but a few “hints” would be nice.
7. And well - my digital video cam doesnt seem to want to play nice and it makes me wonder what others are using. I will have to do some digging and work on my camera and my set up and try again.
8. Finding shows of interest seems to be hard as well. They have a Shows Tab and from a person’s video I can see their followers, but no search functionality. How can I find people/topics that interest me? What if I want to find supporters of a given candidate or people that are cheering for the same Idol

Well that is all I have. Its late and Im not in the mood to watch people I have no interest in tonight. Ill come back soon and try it out some more and let you all know what I like/dont like.

 Good morning all. With the start of a new week is another list of links you more than likely missed in Twitter last week. As always I want to thank the 100 people I follow for the great links they constantly drop into Twitter.

This week is going to be a bit light as I was busy at work and didnt pay attention to Twitter all that much and with computer problems was not online much at night.  I will have a better group for everyone this week I am sure.

For now, enjoy the link finds:

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I was doing some testing and research on MSN this morning and saw something unusual. It seems that in the past few days a new listing type has appeared within the SERPs. For the example below I have added the City name but even if you do it without it does a very good job and finding locations just down the street.

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Better late then never. I had been doing the Link Finds on Sundays but last night I was a bit under the weather (and it continued into today). Here it is 1030PM and Im finally up and about and ready to get this post out to the masses.

I dont know if I was just super busy this week or if I was less than impressed with some of the links that I saw, but I have a small number this week. Hopefully next week’s crop will be better.

If you are new to the show, I encourage you to check out the earlier editions: one and two and Twitter Link Find V3.

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1. I write the in-depth or not so in-depth content.

2. You stumble across it, del.icio.us to it, follow RSS to it, follow a tweet to it,follow pownce to it, google to it, or find a blog via some other method.

3. You read it, think about it, enjoy it, hate it, dismiss it, scream/hoot/holler at it. In the end you will think something - hopefully. You may or may not follow some links - that is entirely up to you.

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There seems to be a bit of “do as I say and not as I do” going around.

There are some agencies of different types that are talking about the value of blogs and SEO, but don’t quite practice what they preach. It has always irked me when the teacher doesn’t follow his own rules (or recommendations, in this case).

Now, I’m not saying that all agency type companies MUST have a blog; I’m just saying that if you start one you should keep up on it. At the very least, if you cant keep it updated just kill it and avoid the ghost town look.

Neglected blogs cause potential clients to wonder if the company is even still in business. On the web you don’t have a storefront where I can walk up and window shop. Window shopping online is me doing a search, picking a result from the SERPs, clicking on it and reading. If you had a real storefront, you would NEVER let it look like no one has shown up for work in six months, so why would you let your site look like that? If I click and your store looks outdated, unkept, or not relevant, you can consider me gone. Why ignore a chance to win a possible buyer over?

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After editions one and two of Twitter Link Find I now present you volume three.  If you still dont know what Twitter is I suggest you read my Twitter Review for a better understanding.

The finds for this week dont include many of the “popular” stories that we have all read way too much the past week. There are no Britney or Scoble related links here

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Or are they?

I personally havent seen this, but in the last hour I have read two blog posts confirming this long time “industry rumor”. Anyone that has been a domainer or into domaining at any level has heard rumors and stories but its looking as if these are maybe more then just stories?

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The week might have been slow for you but on Twitter it was a busy one. As the number of people I follow sits near 100 the link drops that happen are a plenty. Below you will find some of the great finds I came across this week.

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Graywolf found a screen shot on 10e20 that showed how Google owns Google SERPs. Imagine that.

So for giggles I thought I would do my own search of “I am Legend” - the results were kind of shocking to say the least.

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