The Web Now

Facebook.com/yournamehere!

Jun 15th, 2009 | By Greg | Category: Social Media buzz, Social Networks

Now’s the time to get your vanity URL at Facebook!
The race is on! If you want to claim your own name on Facebook.com, you better hurry.
What I mean is this: Up to now, the URL for your Facebook profile was something like this:
www.facebook.com/people/Your-Name/728843290 (that’s not a real link, btw)
But wouldn’t it be a lot cooler [...]



Awesome logos

Jun 15th, 2009 | By Greg | Category: Web design

In case you’re in need of inspiration (or just enjoy looking at cool design work), here are some awesome logo designs. My favorite ones are Greener, VividWay and DynamicLab.



30daychallenge

Feb 16th, 2009 | By Greg | Category: Blogging tools, Cool Blogs, Online Marketing, This rocks!

Ed Dale’s Thirty Day Challenge is the best way to get started with online marketing. Bar none.



Holy Social Media!

Feb 9th, 2009 | By Greg | Category: Social Media buzz, Social Networks, Technology, Word of Mouth Marketing



Flocking (thanks to 30DC)

Jan 28th, 2009 | By Greg | Category: Blogging tools, Social Media tools, The Web Now, Tips, Tools, Woo the Social Media

I’ve been listening to the 30-Day Challenge, and they’ve turned me on to Flock.
I’m learning how to post from Flock. (This might look like dogfood - we’ll see.)



Google tracks the flu

Jan 5th, 2009 | By Greg | Category: Google-related, Search Engines, Woo the seekers (SEO)

Google never ceases to amaze me.
Knowing the importance of curbing the spread of the flu, the folks at Google have come up with this Flu Tracking page.
The way it works, apparently, is that as millions of users around the world search for health information online every week, Google tracks flu-related searches.
The folks at Google say [...]



Fed up with Social Networks?

Sep 7th, 2008 | By Greg | Category: Social Networks, Woo the Social Media

You got an invite to Hi5. You got an invite to Plaxo. You got an invite to Friendster! A friend wants you to follow her on Twitter. You coworker tells you to check out her MySpace. Your wife put your kids’ pics on FaceBook. An old friend is on eConozco, and another just got on [...]



Go incognito!

Sep 6th, 2008 | By Greg | Category: Google-related, Software tools, Tools, Web buzz

Do you share your computer with a roomie? Do you loan you laptop to friends? Without going into too much detail about your personal life, let’s just say that you might not want everyone to see every site that you’ve ever visited.
You wouldn’t want an acquaintance to start typing in the URL bar and have [...]



Chrome, baby!

Sep 5th, 2008 | By Greg | Category: Google-related, SEO-SEM buzz, Search Engines, Web buzz, Woo the seekers (SEO)