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Web Basics

Firefox Tab Candy – Truly Exciting Software

July 27, 2010

Holy cow, this looks fantastic – view the next-generation browser from the Firefox team, incorporating a feature set they call Tab Candy.   Organization into groups, multiple profiles, searchable notes, sharing of tabs and groups of tabs, concurrent browsing – some absolutely incredible features.

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How Does Google Work?

June 30, 2010

…and what else does Google have its fingers into?
Aaron Wall and PPCBlog put together a fantastic flowchart showing how Google works.  As Aaron prefaces it, this probably won’t be accurate in the years to come, because Google is on such a rapid development path.  It might not even be accurate by the end of this [...]

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Likebase for Facebook Pages – Why Not?

May 26, 2010

Facebook recently changed a key element of Facebook Pages, where the notion of having Fans (and thus having a Fanbase) was changed to “people who Like the Page”. Or Those Who Like Pages Formerly Known as Fans. Or The Knights Who No Longer Say Ni.
I’ve received a number of laughs, if [...]

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Google Places: Fixing an Incorrect Marker Location For A Business

May 18, 2010

What’s Google Places? It’s the new re-branded Local Business Center, where you can claim your business, edit your business listing and influence how your business is displayed in Google Search, Google Maps and other locally oriented Google search tools.

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Ben Bernanke Nigeria Spam

March 22, 2010

I got a kick out of the latest Nigerian banking spam email. Fed Chair Ben Bernanke dropped me a nice note to let me know that the federal government of Nigeria sent him $10.5 million to pass on to me. He even congratulated me on my inheritance fund! Spam emails like [...]

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Top 5 Reasons Keywords Aren’t the Search Engine Silver Bullet

March 10, 2010

or “Why You’re Not #1 in Google for mortgage“
As small business owners, I think we all attempt to get a basic understanding of the mechanics of each area of our business, even if we outsource it. Having an understanding of accounting, operations, procurement, warehousing, etc. is important, and allows the proprietor to get a [...]

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Nameservers and Advanced DNS for Small Business

March 7, 2010

Small business owners occasionally have to wade into the murky waters of domain registration and management (not to mention nameservers and advanced dns). It can be tricky to figure out what points where, and how to make changes so that everything points where it should.   Here’s an overview of how your domain is [...]

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