Software

More and more companies out there spend more time blogging and less money on traditional advertising. Blogging can potentially be the perfect marketing tool for a small business IF you know how to handle it.

MarketingVOX has a post for you people out there who want to know more. The post gives 10 tips.

1. ROI based on Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
2. Widespread employee blogging
3. Control is OK
4. Conversion goals
5. Social conversion
6. Marketing democracy
7. Localization
8. Spaghetti
9. Video
10. Data driven blogging

One thing I think the list totally forgot is where you host your blog and which blogging tool you should use. My personal tip would be: Host it at Bluehost.com and run Wordpress. Then the world of plugins and themes is open to you. If you really want to take it serious you should get a designer to create a personalized theme for your company.

Sometimes you see things you just have to share but you don’t have time to write something intelligent. Tooble is one of those things.

Then you go to the ‘About’ section and copy/past.

Said and done:

Tooble is a brand new program designed to bring the of content on YouTube straight to your iPod. In one easy step, tooble automatically downloads, converts and imports any YouTube video to play on your video iPod, iPhone, AppleTV, or even on your computer with iTunes. Now all your favorite videos are with you and ready to play, no matter where you are.

Tooble’s browser lets any user search and select video from the whole of what YouTube has to offer. You can navigate using the lists of featured videos, enter a search in the search bar, or even enter in a URL you already know; tooble gives you access to everything from the elegant comfort of a simply beautiful interface. Once you have found something you like, simply check it and hit the download button- tooble takes care of the rest. Your video will then be downloaded, converted to an easily viewable mp4 format, and automatically imported into iTunes. Now all you need to do is plug in your iPod, and you’ll have all the content you know and love right in your pocket.

Get it here.

Few things makes me act on Facebook. I’m sort of tired of all these applications. However I spotted that some of my friends had performed face recognition on Myheritage.com. That made me curious.

I was positively surprised. Not about who I resembled but how the application worked.

Give it a try and create your own celebrity collage here.

I read somewhere that ’sharing is caring’. So, I thought why not start 2008 with a gift to the readers of my blog.

I’m using Netvibes as my startpage to keep track of things I’m interested in. My life wouldn’t work without my feeds. Thanks ALL of you that spend your time writing the things I read every day.

Since I love it so much, I thought maybe you would too. So here you can download (right click to download and remove the .txt to use it) are all my feeds that I’ve spent quite some time finding and validating. Once downloaded, head to Netvibes and import the .OPML file. Then you’re ready to start building tabs.

Feel free so send more people the link to this post if you wanna spread the Netvibes word.

If you haven’t heard about it yet. Here’s the short version:
Netvibes brings all your favorite RSS feeds, MySpace, Digg, YouTube, Gmail, Flickr, eBay, del.icio.us accounts – you name it (no, really, you can rename our entire site) – together on your own personal Netvibes page. You can share with your friends or colleague your favorite modules. It’s 100% customizable – no ads, no logos, no corporate control

Enjoy!

Yesterday Netscape announced on their blog: End of Support for Netscape web browsers

The fact that Netscape end their support for their web browsers marks the end of an era. My first browser was the Mosaic. Back in 93´there weren’t that many to choose from. But in 94′ Netscape 1.0 was launched and shortly after the browser war between Internet Explorer and Netscape begun. Then came Opera, Firefox, Safari, Flock and many more.

Thank you Netscape for many browsing memories

Me and my girlfriend bought a house yesterday in Täby, Sweden. And it was Google SketchUp that forced us.
The house looked kind of boring on Hemnet (a site where you browse for objects) but it was in our price range. So, what the heck, we’ll go there and take a look.

Once there, the house looked more promising than we thought. But it needed some constructional make over. Said and done. With the blueprint in hand I spent some hours in SketchUp visualizing me and my girlfriends ideas. After that we saw the potential clearly. SketchUp, is a 3D software made for dummies. Lightwave and Cinema4D could also have done the job, but if you’re building simple things in 3D then nothing is easier than SketchUp.

Conclusion. Google SketchUp is for everyone who want to visualize 3 dimensional ideas. The only thing you should worry about is that it might put you in debt some day.

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