Blog Entries - May 2008

How and Why to Blast your Posts onto a Huge Number of Social Networks

Don — Wed, 28 May 2008 22:00:00 +0100

Do you spend your days in the drudgery of promoting your web sites? We've listed over 2,000 Social Media Websites as ripe grounds for promoting your articles. But the comment that we seemed to get the most was best summed up by katfrench on Sphinn:

"Seriously, though, post a list of two thousand social bookmarking sites and Sphinners will get a headache at the thought of a [...]

We Are NOT Pinin for the Fijords!

admin — Tue, 27 May 2008 22:00:00 +0100

You remember that scene in Monty Python where the guy explainst that the parrot is not dead, it's just "pinin for the Fijords!"

Well, we went from posting daily (or twice/daily) to a few times a week to ... silence for a week at a time.

Well, two products in beta, a couple of unexpected PO extensions from existing clients (thanks guys!) and a nasty flu that someone brough [...]

How Not To Do Reputation Management

Don — Tue, 27 May 2008 22:00:00 +0100

I heard a story from a friend the other day that I've seen played out on the Internet dozens of times. A blogger who writes about restaurants wrote a post that was critical of the restaurant.

The restaurant owner's lawyer sent a cease and desist letter, claiming libel. In this case the blogger just folded and took down the post, but put up a copy of the lawyer letter with [...]

Social Suite Beta Tester Saves a Week a Month with Digg Analytics

admin — Sun, 11 May 2008 22:00:00 +0100

[Note - don't put slashes and plus signs in your article title if you have SEO friendly URL addresses that mimic your title. I'm just saying!]

Beta testing is a very strange thing to watch. Some people ask for access and do nada. Others use the software in ways that, frankly, are puzzling. Some people complain abo [...]

Downloading Previous Versions of iMacro for FireFox

admin — Tue, 06 May 2008 22:00:00 +0100

Wow, that may be the most specific post title I have ever written. But I want to capitalize on the extreme amount of google love we're getting lately to save someone else a LOT of time.

We're doing a beta of our Social Suite and it depends on iOpus's most excellent iMacro for FireFox. Except that they released a new version (6.0.4.1) which killed our [...]

Unrelated Beta Test Funnies

admin — Tue, 06 May 2008 22:00:00 +0100

One of our beta testers is in Oz and sent me this story about Comcast putting a 250G limit on monthly downloads and added this comment:

Here in Sydney we pay $89.95AUD/month for 768K DSL with a 2G limit on combined uploads and downloads. Every 10M over that limit costs $0.25AUD. What in the world are Americans doing on the internet?

Wow. Bandwidth limiting. And, no, I don't know how you could need 250G/month unless you were watching live streaming moves. At on [...]

Still Beta Testing Social Media Suite Automation

admin — Sun, 04 May 2008 22:00:00 +0100

It's been kind of dark on this blog, but we're in a whirlwind beta testing our Social Site Automation toolset. We're going to open up the private beta to around 20 more people, so please feel free to contact me (olivertaco@promote-my-site.com) if you'd be interested in giving it a shot.

You should be familiar with social media marketing and have extensive D [...]