Web designers always bemoan online website creators like Wix and Squarespace for making it too easy to build a website and undercutting their own trade (and pricing). We’ve certainly battled with that at Harrelson Co over the years, especially given that our main client base is made of nonprofits, churches, small businesses, and generally those … Continue reading The Problem with Trying to Do Your Own Email Marketing
Well, this is really creepy (but an easy fix): New Gmail Inbox Features Ads That Look Like Emails, Above Promotional Email Subscriptions | MarketingLand: “If you’ve converted to the new Gmail inbox, you may have noticed in-line ads that resemble regular emails at the top of your Promotions tab. These new native-style ads function as … Continue reading Creepy GMail Ads In Your Inbox
Years of building and maintaining my WordPress blog have resulted in my learning a lot about WordPress and getting a lot of grease under my fingernails. Weeks of using Posterous has resulted in a media-rich blog with several posts per week. Tell me which service is more powerful. via suntimes.com I started using Posterous primarily … Continue reading Great Review of @Posterous
I absolutely love FriendFeed's GMail IM integration. It's how I consume most of my FriendFeed content as well as lots from my favorite folks on Twitter that I have piped into FF via the Imaginary Friends (now Rooms) feature. So, if I miss a few hours and want to catch up on what is going … Continue reading FriendFeed Catchup in GMail
AOL is, on the whole, doing things right by its users and the web in general these days. However, the mail team blew it with this bone-headed post complaining about GMail and written on the level of a jealous 14 year old girl that didn’t make the cheerleading squad but wore the same outfit as … Continue reading AOL Mail Team Blows It Bigtime
Thanks to Content Robot‘s @danarockel for the tip that Google Gears now works with Firefox 3. If you’re a big user of Google Docs, Google Reader, Zoho or RememberTheMilk, the Gears integration allows you to work in these apps while offline. Hopefully, we’ll see GMail and Google Calendar integrated with Gears very soon. When that … Continue reading Google Gears and Delicious Now Support Firefox 3
Just saw this in my GMail… @jangro is seeing it too. Fingers crossed. Continue reading Twitter XMPP Coming Back??
So, I’m goofing around with possible Twitter clones and decided to leverage FriendFeed‘s aggregation of GTalk’s status update messages and see if that would work. Here’s what it looks like: Pretty nifty if you are using FriendFeed’s web service or using Twhirl to watch FriendFeed. Plus, there are comments and groupings ftw. Continue reading FriendFeed + GTalk = Twitter Alternative?
via bub.blicio.us Continue reading What is Cloud Computing?
I talk a good deal about cloud computing. If you listen to the GeekCast podcast, you might here me arguing with Shawn Collins over our cloud-based future and how it will be a reality as soon as variables, such as ubiquitous highspeed internet connections are available and accessible here in the US as well as … Continue reading Cloud Computing IS the Future (Not the Web OS)
