My Yahoo / Del.icio.us Rant

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I haven’t ever been a huge fan of Yahoo or anything they have ever introduced w/ the exception of Del.icio.us, which is a social bookmarking service similar to Digg or any other social bookmarking service but a lot more organized and simplified.  You can see my delicious page here.  Well, I learned today on Mashable that Yahoo was planning to kill delicious. Honestly I can think of about a hundred other things that Yahoo could pull the p … [Read more...]

EP:009 – The Cotton Club Podcast

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Just wrapped up another episode of The Cotton Club Podcast tonight w/ guest hosts Brant Collins and Robert Blake.  The topic for discussion for this evenings show was SEO, or search engine optimization.  I have actually gotten a lot of requests from people to do a show on this topic so hopefully we did a good enough job explaining our viewpoints without confusing everyone. On the show we discuss some popular misconceptions regarding SEO as w … [Read more...]

Remembering GeoCities (1995-2009)

I would be remiss if I didn’t make mention of the fact that Yahoo pulled the plug on GeoCities today.  If you are wondering what GeoCities was, my best guess is that you weren’t around in the 90’s.  Before social networks were all over the place, and before there were even web development firms and hosting companies all over the web, there was GeoCities… GeoCities existed as a place where you could go on and host your free website, of c … [Read more...]

Agile Messenger for the iPhone

My business partners and I frequently jump in between Google Talk and Microsoft Messenger to discuss projects during the day.  When we are out of the office however we usually are forced to call one another if we need to ask a question about a project.  In the past I have used a few mobile messenger applications that allowed me to connect to my partners at their computers using my MSN Messenger account or my Google account but I haven’t … [Read more...]

Great Blog Content –vs- SEO

A while back I did a post on Social Saturation and Search Engine Optimization, in that post I emphasized how important it is to get your content onto the social networks.  I was reading a post today by Dawn Foster at Web Worker Daily and she brought up some points that I also agree with and I wanted to share it w/ you.  In her post she mentioned a discussion panel that she was a part of where there were 2 content people and 2 seo … [Read more...]