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Short URLs are the new craze. People convert URLs and don’t give much thought about the service they are using. Will it be around in two years? What happens if it isn’t? Why not use your own short URLs?

The following are lyrics from a song called Got Me Going by Day 26:
there’s no other love
there’s nobody else I’m thinking of
only a baby as special
how could I ever forget you
and let the moment slip away
we’ve been here for a while
and I just wanna take you away
you got me doing things I never do
I can’t [...]

Fast Company redesigned their site, adding social features. I must admit that when I first heard about the redesign I wondered if this was another example of a traditional company trying to hop on board with the latest thing (social features). I decided to check it out.

When I first visited the site my eyes bounced [...]

This is the second part of my interview with Rick Klau from FeedBurner. You can read Part 1 here. I want to thank Rick again for taking the time to answers these questions.
Rick and I will be doing a podcast answering any remaining questions. Keep ‘em coming!
Why isn’t the blog used more to [...]

This is the second part of my interview with Rick Klau from FeedBurner. You can read Part 1 here. I want to thank Rick again for taking the time to answers these questions.
Rick and I will be doing a podcast answering any remaining questions. Keep ‘em coming!
Why isn’t the blog used more to [...]

Deceive: To accept as true or valid what is false or invalid
Hard to believe that bloggers do this all the time. Not intentionally; bloggers many times do not put themselves in the shoes of their readers. A loyal readership requires trust and trust can only be built minus deceit. Let me blunt: bloggers [...]

CoolTechZone posted an article saying that Microsoft was buying Opera. Opera firmly denied this. The article has been updated to reflect the fact that Microsoft had not approached Opera about buying the browser.
I don’t know if CoolTechZone made this up or was given false information but the point is false information was posted to the [...]

Audible announced their new service, the ability to “measure” podcasts. It is based on technology already used by Audible for distributing magazines, books and newspapers in audio form (I don’t use Audible so it is already tracking people and do they know it’s doing that?). The idea behind this is that for podcasting there is [...]

I love the site design on 9Rules Network. It’s colorful but not too busy.
I noticed that many bloggers really don’t do much with themes. I’ve seen more default WordPress installations that ever before. I realize changing the header makes it easy but there are a lot of other themes out there. The other day I [...]