I tried WebPosition Gold about a year ago when I thought I would do SEO/SEM. I had a funny feeling that something didn't seem right about it. Sure the tool was easy and I could quickly give a potential client a view of how they were doing, but something kinda bugged me about it. This article spells out very clearly the dangers in these kinds of tools. I think a bit of caution might be in order.
Spyware is driving me crazy. I thought I was pretty safe and clean until I tried PestPatrol's online spyware checker. Yikes! I don't think I was loaded by any standard, but because I had been running AdAware and SpyBot I figured I was cool. Nope. They might be good, but they don't catch everything. Not…
Steve Gillmor's latest article makes the claim that because MS has been focused on fixing IE's security holes they unwittingly paved the way for RSS. Hmm, I'm not sure. But I'll say one thing for sure, because MS has been abcent from this space there has been some great devlopment in this area. Gillmor cites…
This is a troubling trend. Very often I'm presented with an interesting article from one of my RSS newsfeeds and I'm requested to register or purchase a subscription. This isn't just happening the the States. Here is Canada the National Post and other CanWest papers are starting to go that route as well. My personal…
Funny what you get in your Feedster searches, sometimes dreck, sometimes great stuff. This is the later. I had similar experience, or nearly, on LinkedIn. There was someone I wanted to contact for some reason, maybe to pitch an idea or just a friend of a friend kind of connection. It could also have been…
Or talk or speech or keynote. “A close-up of a microphone with a group of people in the blurred background” by Kane Reinholdtsen on Unsplash Here’s my trial by fire story when I gave my first important presentation, survived, and used those lessons to make public speaking and teaching one of my favorite things. Almost all my…
This is cool! Amy is right on the money for the applications of having a webfeed calendar. How about your dentist, if it tied into their booking software could push the reminder for your check up to you. Might be interested for group collaboration and scheduling. Platform agnostic to receive. Webfeeds are certainly taking off…
