Archive for December, 2008

When starting an online business, large or small, it’s important to know what the media, blogs, and other sites are saying about you. For first, this will help you understand and address user needs and concerns, and you can also take an extra step to try and reach out offering more support and thanks for the helpful review you get.

There are many online reputation tool to use and track anything about your business or brand. For a self entrepreneur however, savings in the starting phase is pretty important, or if you’re just starting a non or low profit blog but are interested naturally in anything said about your blog, and Wordpress Incoming links doesn’t always work as you hope for. For that, Google Alerts may be the best and easiest thing to get started in minutes and for FREE.

Simply login to your Google account, go to the Google Alerts page, and fill up the fields as follow:

1- Search terms: Normally your brand name. For example “BlogAllAlong OR BlogAllAlong.com”. OR is a logical operator here.
2- Type: I would suggest you chose comprehensive to include News, Web, and Blog results.
3- How Often: I select once a day, but this is up to you and how serious your business is. Usually, once a day is good enough.
4- Deliver To: I chose email, you can select also Feed option.

There, now you have daily email alerts of articles about your site or blog. Ofcourse, you can always use it to track your own reputation (if you are such a celebrity ;).

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Call of Duty: World At War is available at Amazon as deal of the day for $34.98 on both PS3 and Xbox 360. That’s less than 10 KD. It’s one day offer if you want it. Frankly, I wasn’t thinking about it but the price was so tempting to resist :).

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Under the Mac Giving Tree you will see a collection of

FREE Mac softwares that are otherwise commercial perhaps

Courtesy of MacHeist

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My favorite program for reading PDF documents has been Foxit Reader for sometime. My inlaw however showed me this PDF-XChange Viewer which has different levels of licenses, you can get the basic version for FREE. What’s great about this software, besides being light and fast to load, is the ability it gives you for editing your PDF documents with labels, signs, hyperlink areas and much more. It even allows you to create a new PDF document from scratch through a nice editor. Some features are only in the Pro version though, or otherwise label your document with “Demo” words.

 

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Los Angeles Times have posted their favorite 52 user submitted travel photos of 2008. As usual, browsing is one by one, no to convenient. But some photos are just worth it there.

 

 

 

 

    

  

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Rules of the game:

1- Draw your world & Avatar on a printed piece of paper
2- Scan your drawing
3- Play your game



Mightier from Ratloop on Vimeo.

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Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.

Visit Ubiquity page for more info.

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