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100 Deal Sites – Get a local deal or an online deal quickly

Jason — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 19:56:03 +0000

If you’re like me, you’re always looking for a deal. Here’s a few sites to help –

1: Bargain-Notify.me

Bargain-Notify.me

Bargain-Notify.me – Hundreds of new bargains every day.

2: BuyDeals.in

BuyDeals.in

BuyDeals.in – Local Deal Aggregator

3: Campus Dibs

Campus Dibs

Campus Dibs – New York University

4: CheapTweet

CheapTweet

CheapTweet – Twitter Deals, Coupons, Bargains, Sales and Discounts

5: Chipped In

Chipped In

Chipped In – Local Golf Discounts

7: CoupRecoup

CoupRecoup

CoupRecoup – Your marketplace for local deals

8: DealBurnr

DealBurnr

DealBurnr – An online bargain shopping community

10: Deal Fan

Deal Fan

Deal Fan – All the best deals

11: DeaLoco

DeaLoco

DeaLoco – It Pays to Be Crazy

12: Deals.Woot

Deals.Woot

Deals.Woot – One Community, Every Deal

13: Yahoo! Deals

Yahoo! Deals

Yahoo! Deals – Find Great Deals, Bargain Prices and Sales

14: DealWaiter.com

DealWaiter.com

DealWaiter.com – Find Great Deals Without Looking

15: GroupTabs

GroupTabs

GroupTabs – Check In For Deals

16: PipelineDeals

PipelineDeals

PipelineDeals – The Sales Tool to Manage Your Deals

17: postabon

postabon

postabon – Shop. Save. Share.

18: pungle

pungle

pungle – The only bookmark you need for shopping online.

19: Restaurant Coupons

Restaurant Coupons

Restaurant Coupons – Restaurant deals near you

20: Scoutmob

Scoutmob

Scoutmob – Mobile deals for the local curious

21: StoreCrowd

StoreCrowd

StoreCrowd – Coupon & Deal sharing made simple

22: Super Cheap Coupon

Super Cheap Coupon

Super Cheap Coupon – Super Cheap Coupon – Coupon For All

23: TownHog

TownHog

TownHog – Connects fantastic deals to people and their friends!

24: twtQpon

twtQpon

twtQpon – Create twitter coupons for your business.

25: 8coupons

8coupons

8coupons – The best deals near me

26: AloDeals

AloDeals

AloDeals – Search 200.000 coupons and deals

27: bTreated

bTreated

bTreated – Exclusive Access to Last Minute Spa & Salon Deals

28: BunchBite

BunchBite

BunchBite – Save up to 85 % on your next meal, while helping people

29: Buxr

Buxr

Buxr – Shop and Save, Share and Earn

30: CardPool

CardPool

CardPool – Sell, Buy, Swap Gift Cards

31: CarlSays

CarlSays

CarlSays – Check-in. Get Deals.

32: CellarThief

CellarThief

CellarThief – Great Wines! Stellar Prices! Wine Deals!

33: CheapToday

CheapToday

CheapToday – Daily deals found by Shopping Experts

34: ChompOn

ChompOn

ChompOn – Share deals. Save big.

35: City My Way

City My Way

City My Way – My City My Way

36: Costwalk.com

Costwalk.com

Costwalk.com – Before you shop, Costwalk.

37: CouponTweet

CouponTweet

CouponTweet – Best deals and discounts on Twitter

38: Cupoco

Cupoco

Cupoco – Mobile coupons in your town

39: DealHamper

DealHamper

DealHamper – A new way to look at daily local deals

40: Dealosaurs

Dealosaurs

Dealosaurs – All Today’s Deals in One Location

41: DealPair

DealPair

DealPair – Pairing Customers with Local Deals!

42: DealQUE

DealQUE

DealQUE – The social shopping revolution starts here

43: Deals For Deeds

Deals For Deeds

Deals For Deeds – Reinvesting in the community, one deal at a time!

44: DealShouter

DealShouter

DealShouter – Deals to shout about

45: Discount’d

Discount’d

Discount’d – Deals, Offers & Coupons from the Worlds top stores

46: Discounts Ahoy

Discounts Ahoy

Discounts Ahoy – Discounts Be Comin’ Matey!

47: equipster

equipster

equipster – Never pay full price for outdoor gear again

48: FashionStake

FashionStake

FashionStake – Democratize Fashion

49: FilterPlay

FilterPlay

FilterPlay – Explore all your options

50: FoundTown

FoundTown

FoundTown – Find Local Business

51: FreeShipping.org

FreeShipping.org

FreeShipping.org – Never pay for shipping again!

52: iDealyzer

iDealyzer

iDealyzer – Track Daily Deals in seconds instead of minutes.

53: GiveawayNow

GiveawayNow

GiveawayNow – Win cool stuff by using Twitter – use Twitter to advertise for free

54: Golf MENA

Golf MENA

Golf MENA – The Golf Social Network that Givesâ„¢

55: GrabSomeDeals

GrabSomeDeals

GrabSomeDeals – Frist social deals website for Windows software

56: Groupon

Groupon

Groupon – Collective Buying Power

57: Groupon Groupie

Groupon Groupie

Groupon Groupie – Easily find national and online Groupon deals

58: GruuBy.Com

GruuBy.Com

GruuBy.Com – Group Buying Made Easy!

59: Judy’s Book

Judy’s Book

Judy’s Book – What’s on sale near you

60: Lifesta

Lifesta

Lifesta – Buy. Sell. Live Daily Deals

61: Mertado Social Deals

Mertado Social Deals

Mertado Social Deals – You Save More When Everyone Buys

62: Missy Flowers

Missy Flowers

Missy Flowers – Send Flowers Online – Quickly!

63: Mpire

Mpire

Mpire – Everything you need to find the best deals online

64: Mycouponcodes.com

Mycouponcodes.com

Mycouponcodes.com – Never pay full price again

65: Oopon

Oopon

Oopon – Fun, Easy, Quick Way To Find Free Coupons

66: PackLate

PackLate

PackLate – Sweet deals on vacation rentals

67: Pikaba

Pikaba

Pikaba – Social Shopping: all you have to do is ask…

68: Pre-Coupon

Pre-Coupon

Pre-Coupon – Discount Coupons

69: PriceFad

PriceFad

PriceFad – The Price Trend Company

71: PricesBolo.com

PricesBolo.com

PricesBolo.com – Click, Compare, Choose

72: RetailMeNot

RetailMeNot

RetailMeNot – The greatest source of coupon codes

73: RollbackSale

RollbackSale

RollbackSale – Create your Deal and Set your Price

74: SideStep

SideStep

SideStep – The traveler’s search engine

75: Smash Deals

Smash Deals

Smash Deals – For the latest online coupon codes and deals.

76: Snoopf

Snoopf

Snoopf – Restaurant coupons and discounts.

77: Spaciety

Spaciety

Spaciety – Spa Deals: Book Salons & Spas in Chicago at Discounted Prices

79: SuperHero Deals

SuperHero Deals

SuperHero Deals – Free online coupon codes and discounts

80: SwarmShopr

SwarmShopr

SwarmShopr – Stop Shopping, Start Swarming

81: SwoopThat

SwoopThat

SwoopThat – Compare local and online prices

83: Tenka

Tenka

Tenka – Find amazing deals around your city and share them with friends.

84: The Dealmap

The Dealmap

The Dealmap – Your city. On sale.

85: TicketPredator

TicketPredator

TicketPredator – Hunt for the best ticket prices

86: Top town deals

Top town deals

Top town deals – half price of less…..guaranteed

87: Trezr

Trezr

Trezr – Find and share the best sale & discounted items

88: Tweet Me Savings

Tweet Me Savings

Tweet Me Savings – Popular discounts on Twitter

89: Twitsavings

Twitsavings

Twitsavings – Tweet deals from around the world

90: Urban Spoils

Urban Spoils

Urban Spoils – All the Best Daily Deals in San Francisco

91: Vanity Rocks

Vanity Rocks

Vanity Rocks – Vanity Rocks Network is a real-time deal marketplace for beauty, health and wellness services.

92: Voyij

Voyij

Voyij – The best sales and offers from your city!

93: SellFire

SellFire

SellFire – One Daily Deal For Internet Marketers (Sorta…)

94: Wishabi

Wishabi

Wishabi – Canadian Social Shopping, Prices & Deals

95: Wooqer

Wooqer

Wooqer – Wooq before you shop

98: Yipit

Yipit

Yipit – All the Best Daily Deals, Coupons & Discounts

99: ZingSale

ZingSale

ZingSale – Get Notified When Your Favorite Products Go On Sale

100: zozi

zozi

zozi – Deals on vibrant things to do locally and abroad

89 Tools and Resources for Web Design

Jason — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:38:50 +0000

ajaxload.info
Ajaxload – Ajax loading gif generator

asoboo.com
The network for creative, internationally-minded people

befunky.com
BeFunky is all about expressing and representing yourself by turning images and videos into cartoons.

bigartmob.com
Join art lovers throughout the UK in the Channel 4 Big Art Project. A gallery of UK public art photographed on camera phone. Help create the most comprehensive map of public art in Britain by sending pics from your mobile phone to bigart@bigmartmob.com. Create your own online art gallery, including Big Art Map, and blog from the streets via your mobile phone.

blogperfume.com
Blog Perfume – - Perfume WordPress Blogs with Themes, Plugins and Blogging Resources

brusheezy.com
Photoshop Brushes – Brusheezy is the a HUGE collection of Photoshop Brushes and Photoshop Patterns to download, or upload your own!

bubblesnaps.com
Bubblesnaps. Create your own Bubblesnap today! Easily add animated speech bubbles to your photos and e-mail them to your friends as ecards!

calendarsquick.comprintablesindex.html
Printable Calendar Templates – CalendarsQuick.com

carbonmade.com
Carbonmade helps you build and manage an online portfolio website. Use Carbonmade to show off your design, illustration, art, or any other type of creative work.

clickbooq.com
clickbooq is an easy-to-use website creation, management, and hosting solution developed exclusively for professional photographers and visual artists.

code.google.comapischart
Developer’s Guide – Google Chart API – Google Code

colorblender.com
Free online tool for color palette design and matching

colorjack.com
ColorJack is an online Color Scheme Generator used by Graphic Designers, Interior Decorators, and many other people from around the world. Currently available in 13 languages.

colourlovers.com
Find design inspiration with thousands of palettes and color schemes to fall in love with. Influence color trends by rating, commenting and sharing.

colourmod.com
ColourMod provides a free DHTML Color Picker as well as widgets for Apple Dashboard and Konfabulator on Apple and Windows

comiqs.com
Comiqs | Create & Share your Comic Stories

commandshift3.com
Vote on your favorite sites, see the best-designed sites in various categories, and submit and vote for the top website designs. It’s awesome.

conceptshare.com
ConceptShare: Online Design Collaboration Made Easy

csstextwrap.com
The CSS Text Wrapper allows you to generate HTML and CSS to wrap text on your website into any shape.

csstypeset.com
CSS Type Set is a hands-on typography tool allowing designers and developers to interactively test and learn how to style their web content.

curbly.com
Post pictures of your pad, share design ideas, and get expert advice.

designerpages.com
Designer Pages is a free social application for finding products in architecture and design. All the products are posted by suppliers’ themselves.

designfloat.com
Design Float is a social media site dedicated to the design industry.

designgrabs.com
Design Grabs: The Social Design Gallery

designmyroom.com
Explore interior design, decorating and home improvement ideas. Share, rate, vote, become a design star! Find home design inspiration from top interior designers.

deviantart.com
Art – community of artists and those devoted to art. Digital art, skin art, themes, wallpaper art, traditional art, photography, poetry / prose. Art prints.

deyey.com
Name Card Design, Printing and Sharing

dezignus.com
Free vector graphics, silhouettes and vector icons, graphic design and best designers. Download illustrations of sexy girls, styles, shapes & brushes for PS CS3, backgrounds, textures.

dhtmlgoodies.com
Click here for DHTMLgoodies.com, a site with DHTML and Ajax scripts, demos and tutorials.

dripbook.com
Dripbook is an online community of artists painters, photographers, designers, stylists, animators, illustrators, printmakers, architects creativity displayed with images portfolios allow artists share art Dripbook survey of the visual arts world

dynamicdrive.com
Click here for Dynamicdrive.com, a comprehensive DHTML site featuring DHTML scripts, tutorials, and more.

famfamfam.com
famfamfam is the personal website of Mark James

favicon.cc
create favicons online

flashface.ctapt.de
It provides a palette of facial objects: eyes, jaw, hair, etc. For each, you pick the one you like, then place and size it appropriately. I thought the Flash-based interface was pretty clever. You can even save your creation.

flip.com
Make flipbooks, online scrapbooks. Upload your photos, videos & music to customize. Share with Facebook friends, embed on Myspace or Xanga!

formsite.com
FormSite is a hosted forms service that enables non-technical users create online forms using only a web browser. There is nothing to download or install.

freshbadge.com
Quickly create very trendy, eye-candy, and very web 2.0 badges for your site, blog or scrapbook.

genfavicon.com
Generator Favicon. A favicon (short for favorites icon), are litle icons associated with a particular website or webpage, shown next to the sites name in the URL bar of most browsers. The most common sizes for favicons are: 16×16, 32×32, 48×48, 64×64, 128×128. Browse to the files location on your computer to select the image and press Upload Image button to generate a favicon for your site

genopal.comonline.php
Create amazing color schemes

gogofrog.com
Gogofrog – Imagine building a unique 3D web site within just a few minutes… and best of all it’s absolutely FREE.

goo3d.com
Full 3D for Adobe Flash in one click

humblevoice.com
Awww yeah. You found Humble Voice.

iconbuffet.com
Tons of icons for your site or desktop

iconfinder.net
Icon search engine. Search trough 30.000 great icons in good quality. All in PNG-format with alpha-channel. Perfect choice for webdesigners.

iconspedia.com
Download free png icons & Icon Packs | IconsPedia

inserit.com
Create amazing dynamic pages without programming

issuu.com
Issuu – You Publish

javascriptkit.com
Your comprehensive JavaScript, DHTML, CSS, and Ajax stop

kuler.adobe.com
kuler from Adobe Labs. Quickly create harmonious color themes online. Explore, create and share color themes.

litmusapp.com
Painlessly test your email and web site designs

luxa.org
Photoshop tutorials and advanced effects for graphic designers

maxtango.com
All about ecards

mimoa.eu
Mimoa has dedicated itself to bring Modern Architecture closer to YOU. Your Modern Architecture, assembled, compiled and completed, synoptic, swift and always up-to-date. Architecture to be added, searched, visited and re-viewed, MY Modern Architecture: MIMOA.

modernagenda.com
Your guide to Modern World

mycoolbutton.com
You can create a web 2.0 button in only 4 steps. You can paint your button with preloaded web 2.0 icons or upload your personal icon and customize the font of the text inserted. Enjoy with php, gd2 and Photoshop base button and jquery ajax powered. Hosting/housing windows and linux domain with php/mysql/gd2.

pagii.com
Pagii-Social publishing network

polyvore.com
Create outfits using real products saved from any online store. Share your style with your friends or browse thousands of looks by color or brand.

postalz.com
Send postcards online

premiumnewstheme.com
Premium News Theme

professionalontheweb.com
Professional On The Web is a directory of web professional profile, projects and portfolio; tagged by their Know-How.

pushuppulldown.com
Push Up Pull Down

quickribbon.com
QuickRibbon website ribbon generator, free Web2.0 widget

redbubble.com
RedBubble is an online art gallery and creative community that makes it easy to buy and sell art as high-quality framed prints, greeting cards, posters, designer T-Shirts and more.

redesignme.org
Your reaction to bad design

roundedcornr.com
This online tool generates HTML/CSS code and images to decorate your Web site with rounded corners and gradient.

scalenine.com
Scale Nine : Graphical theme and skin goodness for Flex and AIR.

scenecaster.com
Create or transform 3d scenes

scratch.mit.edu
Snap together blocks to create stories, games, and animations and share your creations on the web

sketchplanet.com
Sketchplanet is an online user-driven sketching community.

sproutbuilder.com
Sprout is the quick and easy to build sophisticated multimedia content, indluding mini-sites, widgets, mashups, and more

supermarkethq.com
Supermarket – Great design. Straight from designers.

synthasite.com
A unique website building experience for everyone that wants to publish content onto the web!

tartanmaker.com
Generate seamless tartan patterns!

templatr.cc
Layout builder

terraims.comdmapicons
mapicon Factory allows you to generate map icons and markers for use in Google Maps, Yahoo Maps, and other map-mashup applications.

text2png.com
Easy Text to PNG conversion

toondoo.com
ToonDoo – The online cartoon, comic strip creator. Create your own cartoon, comic strips, publish, share and discuss!

typetester.maratz.com
The Typetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen. Its’ primary role is to make web designer’s life easier.

vastpark.com
VastPark – Grow your own Virtual World, online game or Real time 3D visualization.

vecteezy.com
Vecteezy is an index of Free Vector Graphics available for download by some of the best designers around the world.

vectormagic.stanford.edu
Vector Magic – precision auto-tracing online

vflyer.com
Marketing Platform for online sellers

voki.com
Create a character, make it talk, take it anywhere

web20badges.com
Web20Badges is a set of free and very cool Web 2.0 Badges.

wix.com
Wix.com – Make your own stunning Flash websites and Flash web content for Free. Design free Flash MySpace layouts and publish Free MySpace comments with Wix.

xhtmlchallenge.com
Home. websites comparison on validation and code markup to vote best coded sites

yeeoh.net
View is a web design showcase, providing the members with the power to decide which sites are showcased and which sites are not. We believe this concept gives the visitors and especially the registered members much more control over the content they would expect to see on a web design showcase.

zingfu.com
ZingFu – 3000 years of photo sharing

18 Sites to help you create your logo

Jason — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:07:35 +0000

Here’s a list of websites that’ll help you create your logo. First impressions are the most important.

99designs

Designer Marketplace for Logo Designs and More

Need something designed? 99designs connects clients needing design work such as logo designs, business cards or web sites to a thriving community of 24,108 talented designers.

Logo Tournament

Get the logo that you really want by choosing from 50-200+ custom designs

Contest holders fill out a logo questionnaire and prepay the prize through their credit card, bank account, or Paypal.

Once the contest is live, designers will then submit their logo concepts over the coming days. Contest Holders will rank the concepts as well as provide feedback as of…

The Design Inspiration

The best logos, illustrations, websites, photos & patterns

A group of designers who are seeking various design inspiration every day. In order to make every designer’s life easier, we decided to feature the best logos, illustrations, websites, photos and patterns all in one place on The Design Inspiration.

The Design Inspiration is daily u…

Logo Instant

Download Free Web 2.0 Logo Designs

You can use all the logo design as inspirations, using it on your website or your project or even using them for your clients.

LogoSauce

Oozing with logo goodness

Logo design, inspiration and information.

Showcase your logos on logosauce. it’s completely free.

To free logos from the hidden depths of the designers hard-drive. To expose logos great and small to the world for comment and adoration. To inspire great and fantastic logo design. T…

IncSpring

The World is BIG. Let it Brand You.

IncSpring Officially Launched August 4, 2008!

IncSpring was founded in 2008 to provide an open marketplace for high quality, corporate brands. As the first portal for buying and selling complete brands, IncSpring is a way for entrepreneurs and small businesses to reach the best graphi…

Guerra Creativa

A global community for design services

Guerra Creativa is a global community for design services. It provides a playful platform where start-ups and small businesses can crowdsource their logos, web designs, stationary, business cards, flash and 3D. Enjoy exploring the battlefield of Guerra Creativa and launch a contest easi…

LogoMyWay

Logo Designers – Start A Logo Design Contest

Get custom logo designs for your business in hours. Start a logo design contest.

LogoPond

LogoPond – Identity Inspiration

LogoPond has thousands of logos to inspire your creativity

BrandBucket

Brandable domain names for sale

BrandBucket create pre-packaged brands, including the logo and a dot com domain name, for great new products and services to adopt. It is a resource for those starting a new business and needing a brand and those looking to just rebrand an existing product.

Twitlogo

The Twitter Logo Generator

Make your own Twitter logo with Twitlogo. Generate and design your own simple Twitter logo and save it to your computer. Perfect for Twitter apps, mashups, and more!

BrandDoozie

Marketing Materials in Minutes

The Web Tool for Do It Yourself Marketing.

BrandDoozie is the web application that creates marketing materials in minutes.
Get your logo, business cards, brochures, direct mail, flyers and more!

Create your own marketing materials without having to buy software or learn any grap…

Online Logo Maker

Design your own logo!

Online Logo Maker provides an intuitive logo development tool, making possible for anyone create their own logos. Just drag and drop the itens, choose the right colors and voila! No cost, no registration, no catches!

Trademarkia

Automates and simplifies the trademark process

Trademarkia is the largest, most accurate, and most complete free search engine for U.S. federally registered trademarks on the Internet. We provide up to the minute contextual information about the current use of interesting business names, slogans, and logos through pictures, commer…

Doodle Source

Googles logos do matter

Doodle Source gathers all Google logos worldwide the second they are changed and keeps an archive. You can also sort them by country, title or date.

Strong pros of Doodle Source:

- Faster than http://www.google.com/logos/
- You can follow doodles very easily with out worldwide RSS, c…

Logobay

Convert, manage and send logos online

Secure, online, free. With client access. All formats and variants centrally archived but ready to hand. Made for graphic designers and advertising agencies. Because logo CDs are so 20th century.

Supalogo

Create nice logo online

This generator will create logo with a lot of options.

13 Alerting Sites

Jason — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 12:19:54 +0000

Here’s a nice little list of sites that send you alerts. Very useful for social marketing, online reputation, etc…

1: notify.me

notify.me – your content in real time

notify.me

2: Alerts.com

Alerts.com – Information when and where you want it

Alerts.com

3: Video-Alerts

Video-Alerts – get notified about new YouTube videos!

Set up your own alerts to find out about new YouTube videos

Video-Alerts

Video, Youtube, Video-alert, new, alert, setup, personal

4: MindMeTo

MindMeTo – a way of remembering with Twitter

MindMeTo

5: GetNotify

Best Free Email Tracking Service – Get Your Sent Email Read Notification.

Free Email Tracking service. Track email and get email open and email read confirmation. Receive email message return receipt and read receipt.

GetNotify

email tracking, track email, email return receipt, email read receipt, free email tracking, email tracker, tracking email, email receipt, email read notification

6: siteTweet

siteTweet | Real-time Twitter metrics for your site alert tool

Realtime webanalytics, site metrics Twitter alert tool. Create real-time alerts on your Twitter account based on behaviors practiced on your website.

siteTweet

twitter site real-time analytics metrics

7: Twications

Twications – Twitter + Notifications = Twications!

Twications

8: Bargain-Notify.me

Thousands of bargains, custom notifications, etc. | Bargain-Notify.me

Clearance, Discounts, Specials, Deals, Bargains, etc. Pay less, get more! Create custom searches and receive notices whenever a bargain you are looking for arrives. Don’t miss great deals anymore! Get updates through e-mail, Twitter or RSS.

Bargain-Notify.me

bargains,deals,clearance,sale,specials,discount,low price

9: Music-Alerts

Album Release Dates Delivered via RSS – Music-Alerts

Create a custom alert feed so you’ll never miss another album release

Music-Alerts

10: TwitterAlerts

Twitter Alerts, twitter on SMS, twitter on Email and Yahoo Messenger | TwitterAlerts.net

TwitterAlerts

11: Listiti

Google Alerts for Twitter Lists – listimonkey.com

Receive an email alert whenever a keyword appears in a Twitter List (free!)

Listiti

twitter, lists, tweet, alert, real-time,realtime

12: Google News

Google

Google News

13: Social Mention

Real Time Search – Social Mention

Social Mention is a social media search engine that searches user-generated content such as blogs, comments, bookmarks, events, news, videos, and microblogging services.

Social Mention

social mention, socialmention, search, track, tracker, microblogging, social media tracker, conversations, social search, social media search, social media, web, technology, web 2.0, tech, information, blog, twitter, youtube, google

Firefox – Now on top

Jason — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:56:10 +0000

In case you didn’t know… Firefox did it! Firefox is now the number one browser in the world!

Twitter for Marketing: Dead?

Jason — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:43:21 +0000

As expected, Twitter is huge. What was the original business model? Did the guys at Twitter ever think it would become what it is today? What is the future of Twitter?

Twitter has huge potential. And there’s enormous room for creative expansion. The platform in itself is flexible and can do some amazing things. But is it being used to its full potential. Absolutely not. Will it? Who knows … I’m sure there’s a strategy behind the future of Twitter.

But this it what I struggle with: In its current state, how effective is it in terms of marketing? Can a twitterer with 10000 followers create more hype than a twitterer with 1000? Simple logic would suggest that having more followers certainly creates more hype. But guess what … As of now it doesn’t necessarily work like that. It really depends on who’s following you, how they started following you, and the reason they use Twitter.
It’s not uncommon for a regular guy, with nothing good to say have thousands of followers. That does NOT mean that any of his followers listen to anything they’re saying.

Twitter currently serves as a platform for spam. So many people try to use twitter for shameless self-promotion and for their own marketing efforts, that they lose focus on the concept of Twitter. There’s several companies that facilitate the spamming activities. These companies make it easy to have thousands of friends and to send messages directly to each and every one of those friends – and this is done fully automated. It’s easy to filter these people out… Compare followers to number of people they follow. If the numbers are similar and hi, than they likely don’t use twitter the way it should be used.

In order for twitter to work for marketing, you need to have some foundation or previously established reputation. You need to actually be somebody who has something valuable to say or a person who is in the public eye. It’s highly unlikely that we’ll see anyone gets famous by using twitter.
So what’s the appeal of Twitter for the spammers?

Perhaps these people are getting a false sense of self-worth. It’s possible that the spammers feel like they have accomplished something by gaining thousands of followers and can compete with the big boys. Or maybe there’s more to it than meets the eye. Whatever the reason, I think this is an issue that the guys at Twitter need to address.

I certainly don’t condone or promote spamming. But at the same time, I don’t disagree with paying for large amounts of followers. Having big numbers of followers can and will earn credibility. When people see that you have thousands of followers, they assume that there’s a legitimate reason for it.
To wrap this up, I think Twitter isn’t as effective in terms of marketing as people give it credit for. There’s too much spam. I believe that in order for it to have high value, the Twitterer needs to have a well-established foundation. This foundation can’t be created on Twitter – the logic just doesn’t work.

I believe that we’re soon to see some killer new uses of Twitter… assuming we can get control on the spamming.

Twitter Easter Eggs

Jason — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:39:29 +0000

Twitter has limitations with creating custom profiles… backgrounds are difficult to upload and depending on your screen size, they’ll always look different. So, why not take advantage of this twitter craziness and throw in something for the user/viewer to find…?

Here you can see the profile on a regular 1280w screen. Then, when you open the page on a screen with a bigger width, you get a nice little easter egg that includes a 50% off coupon for all products.

The live twitter background

1280 px Screen

Twitter Easter Egg

1650px Screen

25 Start Pages to Get You Started

Jason — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 11:01:35 +0000

Sometimes these start pages can really come in handy… many people resort to igoogle… but there’s plenty of others that have some nice little features, too.

1: 43marks.com — The Ultimate Homepage

43marks.com — The Ultimate Homepage

2: myAOL – your home page for weather, calendar, horoscopes, mail and more

myAOL is a personalized home page that offers weather, calendar, horoscopes, mail, news, stock quotes, pictures and many more customizable features, in addition to the Favorites RSS feed reader and bookmarks site.

myAOL – your home page for weather, calendar, horoscopes, mail and more

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3: BonzoBox: It’s Your Homepage

BonzoBox: It’s Your Homepage

4: FavTabs.com

FavTabs.com

5: Geeking with Greg: A brief history of Findory

Geeking with Greg: A brief history of Findory

6: Netvibes. A free personalized page

Netvibes is a free website that lets you personalize your web experience. Using little applications known as widgets, you can check your email, read newspapers, follow your favorites blogs, watch videos, listen to podcasts, update your social networks, us

Netvibes. A free personalized page

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7: LeapFish.com – Multimedia Search Engine.

LeapFish.com – Multimedia Search Engine.

LeapFish.com – Multimedia Search Engine.

8: s m p l r

s m p l r

9: stHrt.com Best Home Page to Share & Find Cool Sites

stHrt.com is a free homepage website that allows you to manage your favorite web sites, share sites with friends, rate web sites, and find cool new web sites. It’s fast, easy and fun! Sign up for your start page today.

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10: Fasteagle

Intuitive interface to easily access the most popular web destinations, relevant sites and helpful online tools.

Fasteagle

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11: Fav20 – Save your favorite websites on a 2.0 HomePage

Fast access your favorite websites from anywhere on a 2.0 homepage

Fav20 – Save your favorite websites on a 2.0 HomePage

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12: feedly: a magazine-like start page

feedly: a magazine-like start page

13: Gizj

Free personal homepage, news and content aggregator.

Gizj

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14: iGoogle

iGoogle

15: Investside

Investside

16: LDS Tourism Services Ltd. – Leaflet Marketing Specialist

LDS Tourism Services Ltd. – Leaflet Marketing Specialist in the UK

LDS Tourism Services Ltd. – Leaflet Marketing Specialist

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17: MyStartSite – Personalized homepage to view multiple search engines, receive news headlines, and access to your favorite links

MyStartSite is a personalized homepage allowing you to search multiple sites, provides easy access to your favorite sites, and receive news headlines

MyStartSite – Personalized homepage to view multiple search engines, receive news headlines, and access to your favorite links

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18: Netvibes

Leading personal start page to manage your digital life. Add widget to read your newspapers, play games, watch TV, movies, listen to podcasts, manage your social networks like Facebook, MySpace, read your emails from gmail or yahoo mail.

Netvibes

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19: PageFlakes

PageFlakes

20: Picok

Personal Information Cockpit

Picok

21: MrSapo Global Edition

MrSapo.com is a start page presenting links to the web’s most prominent sites in a structured and unified way, providing also a set of search and visualization tools. A starting point to your web navigation. Web Essentials. Online Information Assistant.

MrSapo Global Edition

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22: Sputtr

Sputtr

23: Welcome to Transferr

Transferr gives registered users a quick, easy and good looking way to manage their bookmarks through a webpage of icons which can be accessed from anywhere.

Welcome to Transferr

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24: Webwag

Webwag

25: Widgetop – Your Web Desktop

Widgetop – Your Web Desktop

Added:

Piggy’s Page
www.piggyspage.com
Welcome to Piggy’s Page, the amazingly simple home page that lets you use the numeric keypad to access your favorites.

Muscle-building Supplements – Highly recommend

Jason — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:24:41 +0000

This site is dedicated to technology… we all know that. From time to time, I come across a product or service that’s not related to technology, but is certainly worth mentioning.

I’ve been an athlete my entire life… from about 5 years of age until about 17 years of age, I was into martial arts… big time. I was nationally ranked for several consecutive years, but lost the interest after I earned my 3rd degree black belt – that was years ago. I also played baseball, basketball, and hockey for years… for most of my 20ies, I worked out hard, every day…

I have 3 kids all boys… so needless to say, no time to work out. I started working out again, sort of… from my house, using the fitball, etc.

I was at a meeting a couple months ago with the owner of Max Muscle and he introduced me to a new line of supplements. He said that these supplements were awesome… One of his clients, who is also another client of mine had been taking these supplements for about a month. It was unbelievable! This guy had a ton of energy, shedded about 15 pounds of fat, and looked awesome…

Long story short, I tried the supplements and STRONGLY recommend them to those who need some motivation to get off your lazy asses and get in shape.

Here’s a contest they’re running right now, too… http://www.gottren.com/blog/item/26-weekly-giveaways—week-1

#gottren
#bodybuilding

57 Widget Sites

Jason — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:19:19 +0000

I recently needed a quick fix for client that required a custom widget. I thought I’d use a third party widget application to host it… primarily because I didn’t want to do much work, and there’s actually other benefits – like social marketing.