Broadcast Yourself. 18 Social Media Icons You Need to Know Sure, you know what those Twitter, Facebook, reddit and Digg icons mean at the bottom of most blog posts these days, but what about all those other funny-looking ones? There's a pantload of them - so many that it can be overwhelming and confusing. Allow us to break down our 18 favorites for you (click each icon to be taken to their Web site): 1. What started out as Del.icio.us has evolved into Delicious.com. 2. Like flipping through channels on the television, StumbleUpon allows you to surf the web but only hit the sites that interest you or fit the criteria you choose. 3. Use Squidoo to find or create useful posts, called lenses, on any topic. 4. Here's one of my personal favorites! 5. Both a research tool and a social collaborative community, you can use Diigo to organize your bookmarks, archive pages, and annotate each page. 6. 7. Currently invitation only, Gnolia is a community based on sharing and saving links and bookmarks. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. iLike 14. deviantART 15. 16. 17. 18.
Subscribing from a Device I made this page out of frustration. There is simply no easy way to add bookmarklets to your iPad or iPhone. I blagged a little about that here. I don't use Safari on my desktop, so I don't sync my bookmarks to my iDevices. So I took a few minutes to copy the Javascript from all my bookmarklets and made this iPhone/iPad formatted page with all the Javascript in a selectable textarea for each bookmarklet. I know this is far from ideal, and even further from anything resembling a solution, but until some smart person comes up with a way around this, or until Apple adds some better bookmark management or add-on capabilities to mobile Safari this will have to do for now. I'll leave this page up for anyone who wants to add some of these bookmarklets to Safari on their own iPads or iPhones. Instructions: I'll assume that you are running iOS and that you already know how to add and edit a Safari bookmark on your iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch, but here's a quick recap anyway: 1. Bookmarklets:
Answers Grockit Answers is just-in-time Q&A for video lectures. In Grockit Answers, interactions happen around video lectures, and participants ask and answer questions about specific points in the lecture. Since every question is attached to a specific point in time in the video, Grockit Answers displays a question and its answers at the point in the lecture that they are most relevant. social media tools By B.L. OchmanI love technology and tools, even though I totally lack the technical gene. So I’m always experimenting with new ways to find and interact with information. While there are myriad expensive subscription search services (which will be the subject of another post) I depend on some elegant and effective tools for searching social media that are free or very inexpensive. Here are some I currently love: Flowtown is the missing link in social media marketing.
Safely Show YouTube with SafeShare The video above shows how easy it is to convert a YouTube video to a Safeshare.tv video SafeShare is a website that takes YouTube videos and gets rid of almost ALL of the advertisements and junk around the main video. Safeshare even removes the ads that are often showed before popular videos. Using it is VERY simple and I really don’t know why I did not convert all my videos before now. All you do is copy the YouTube link and paste it into Safeshare.tv (see image below) Then you are given a new link to use instead of the YouTube link. Save that to your favorites and you are set. Here are some of my favorite YouTube videos that have been converted to safeshare already. Just Dance Videos for Transition and Indoor Recess Peep and Chirp Science Video for young kids The Best Sesame Street Video for Kids The Letter Songs Songs for Transition and Movement Like this: Like Loading...
The Ultimate “How To” Twitter Guide Did You Know... 43% of people follow a brand on Twitter for special offers/deals 75% of users are more likely to purchase from a brand they follow 67% of users are likely to recommend a brand they follow to others What is Twitter? Just a beginner to Twitter? How to use Twitter Effectively Now that you know what Twitter is and how it works, learn how to use it effectively: How to Increase Your Twitter Followers So, you know how to use Twitter, but no one is listening. Best Practices: Hashtags Hashtags can be an effective way to target specific users on Twitter. Best Practices: ReTweet Retweeting is a easy way to share content with your Twitter followers. Best Practices: Search Find users or search for users based on your custom search criteria. How to Create Lists Lists can be a useful way to attract users to your page so that they start following you. How to use Twitter for Business Now you’ve gotten your feet wet and learned how to use Twitter for your business. How to use Twitter for Marketing
Computer Security in the Real World Computer Security in the Real World Butler W. Lampson Microsoft Note: This web page was converted automatically from a Word original. Abstract After thirty years of work on computer security, why are almost all the systems in service today extremely vulnerable to attack? In a distributed system with no central management like the Internet, security requires a clear story about who is trusted for each step in establishing it, and why. People have been working on computer system security for at least 30 years. The Internet has made computer security much more difficult than it used to be. Today half a billion people all over the world are on the Internet, including you. · Attack from anywhere: Any one on the Internet can take a poke at your system. · Sharing with anyone: On the other hand, you may want to communicate or share information with any other Internet user. · Automated infection: Your system, if compromised, can spread the harm to many others in a few seconds. Money talks, though.
Unique SEO Challenges Facing Bloggers There are increasingly numerous challenges for bloggers to face in order to be successful. Google’s determination to clamp down on spam creates ever-changing problems for bloggers. The Panda and Penguin updates hit bloggers especially hard because they flag poor content that has been duplicated or looks spammy. Note: You Should Hire a SEO Consultant Specialist to solve all SEO Challenges you may be facing with you website or blog and take your business to next level. Image by Nadya Peek Bloggers now need a good understanding of SEO to be able to alter how they operate and create their content. Creating Great Content The main goal of a blog post is to create great content that the intended audience will find new and interesting. The challenge for bloggers is the frequency in which they have to produce great content. Another problem that bloggers face with their content is that it can be moved about a lot. Google’s Penguin Updates Blog ‘Smell’ Solutions Article by James Duval
Taking Credit Card Payments Online: What’s Involved? Advertisement If you’re looking to integrate a credit card payment solution onto your website, the following steps are a guide to applying for, enabling and taking payments online. At first glance, the prospect of integrating a payment solution on a website can seem unwieldy, what with the vast array of payment options and technical acronyms. This article breaks down the entire process into bite-sized pieces, helping you understand the process much better. Apply For An IMA When taking any kind of credit card payments connected to a bank account, you must apply for a merchant account with a bank. Even if you currently take “card-not-present” payments (such as for mail orders) or use in-store payment terminals (such as chip-and-pin), you still have to speak with your bank about taking payments via your website (ask your bank for an additional IMA ID). It’s worth noting that it is possible to process Internet payments manually, using your regular point of sale system. Select A PSP PayPal