Blog Entries tagged 'software'

Please Do Not Buy Our Software

Don — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:00:00 +0100

No, our site hasn't been hacked.

If you're an existing customer of the PMS Social Suite, you've noticed some huge changes. Yes, we got the latest version out yesterday. It's chock full of new features. But we don't want you to buy it from us.

Death to Robots!

What's more important is what this version is missing. We took all the robots out back and shot them.

Really. All the rob [...]

How to Block Obnoxious Digg Shouts

ltdraper — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:00:00 +0100

Sometimes your Digg friends just don't know when to quit.

We've all seen the person that seems to have just discovered the shout button and sends us 20 spams, er shouts, a day. We've been smart enough to turn off the email notfication for new shouts, but it's still clogging up our shout pages.

We don't want to lose them as a friend, because frankly they send good stuff once in a while and they d [...]

New Features in Manage Friends

Don — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:00:00 +0100

Managing Shouts isn't the only thing we've improved in the PMS Social Suite. We've also made a number of enhancements to the manage friends tab. The major features of this release are:

Calculating Deadwood - what percentage of your submits does a friend Digg, and how much do you Digg them back?Welcome Messages - An easy method for the care and feeding of new fansShouting - Send a shout to a group of friendsGo To Friend Page - more options for which page to visitMulti Digg Submits - now y [...]

Social Suite Beta Test Conclusions and Completion

admin — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:00:00 +0100

I'd like to thank everyone for their testing on the Social Suite with Digg Analytics and Automation. It was, well, interesting. I've done a lot of beta testing inside client sites but haven't really released a program into the wild since before the internet. (Remember FidoNet and shareware distribution? Yikes!)

At the end of the day we decided that it was usable enoug [...]

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 [...]

Stupid Timesaving Filezilla Trick O' The Day

admin — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 22:00:00 +0100

We use filezilla as our Pointy Haired Boss friendly (*cough*) ftp front end. It rocks, and it is free - what more can you ask for?

Lately I've been testing screen capture software and have been spending a lot of time rebooting my PC (install/uninstall) and reconnecting to our servers, shoving a video up, testing it on several different computers. Rinse and repeat.

And it was rea [...]

How to Use the Social Heartbeat Monitor

admin — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:00:00 +0100

It's always great to get a new tool like the Social Heartbeat Monitor ™ and I always appreciate an article explaining why someone built it.

But that is often all you get. I have to admit, I rarely read detailed instructions, so I'm a bit reluctant to, you know, write 'em.

How It Works

The [...]

From Consulting to Product

admin — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:00:00 +0100

So you're rocking along, doing some pretty good dollar consulting, and you build a small product, internal use only, to help you get your fixed price projects done more quickly. And now you're really pulling in some bucks.

Disaster Strikes

A junior consultant you just hired from Compsci-U gets drunk at TGIF with the client and spills the beans about y [...]

Outsourcing to India

admin — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:00:00 +0100

We've talked about why you wouldn't want to outsource to Amazon (and were proved right when they went down hard recently) but when Aaron wrote an excellent article on The Future of Business Process Outsourcing I thought it might be good to give a (slightly) dissenting opinion. He makes a lot of very good points about the hardware and software side of outsourcing, but I think he kind of runs off the rails when he looks at the opportunities and people in India.

Aaron's Complaint [...]

Free SEO Tool Launch Starting this Weekend

admin — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:00:00 +0100

This is a big weekend here at Promote My Site because we're moving servers, shuffling software around, changing DNS, upgrading this and that. Oh, and putting two free SEO Tools out. Phew. I'd be nervous but the technical guys threw me out at 5pm and locked the door behind me. All they'd say was: Don't Panic.

Free SEO Tools?

Well, not really free because they are on pag [...]

You Simply Cannot Maintain Free Software

admin — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Not for very long anyway.
I reviewed several manualized social network automators (OnlyWire, Social Poster, Social Marker , EkStreme, Post Toaster, etc) and then summarized the 114 sites they supported. And one of my criticisms was that they either had (a) no monetization or (b) weak but clear. And what fruit does that bear?
Uptime Status for Social Network Automation
Well, of the 114 total sites supported, there were the following errors:
Excites - 7 minutes to load [...]

Choosing a Web Application Manipulation Tool

admin — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0100

The bad news is that if you choose the wrong tool you'll have a heck of a time unwinding the mistake. The good news
is that these products are different enough and the choice is pretty clear.

Real World Web Application Manipulation Tool

We said earlier that a
web
application manipulation tool is one that drives a web site based on a link back to your backend application
containing workflow and data driven information. In a real world setting this tool must have the following
c [...]

I'm Just Saying - Complexity is Complex

admin — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0100

We're trying to debug something that seems relatively simple, but we've got the following bits and pieces in the mix:
JoomlaComponents galore for JoomlaPHPAjaxMySQLOracleTwo servers (same hosting center)
Development on WindowsDeployment on LinuxIE and MozillaDisplay widgets from DXHTML (awesome stuff!)
And some other stuff, I'm sure. Swear to gosh, simple problems can take forever to find.

On the upside, we find that complex problems are easily tackl [...]

Architecting SEO Tools For Success

admin — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0100

I'd like to get a bit geeky on everyone - not the chicken biting geeky, but the other kind - and talk about architecting SEO tools for successful deployment. I'm going to skip by discussions of PC/Mac UI, Ajax/Ruby, vi/EMACS, etc, etc. I want to talk about basic system architecture.
Service with a Smile
The most commonly deployed form of system architecture for SEO tools is server-centric.