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Checking out Google Friend Connect and Facebook Connect

I just installed these two plugins on my blog - Check them out they are over here —->

I will leave them for a while and if people use them they will become permanent.  i really like the idea of turning social networks inside out and getting blog traffic through my current networks.
We will see how [...]

Amazon web services “start-up tour”

Coming to Salt Lake City, September 10, 2008
I signed up, I have been meaning to mess around with AWS for a long time but haven’t had the time. This should shrink the learning curve.
Amazon Web Services Start-Up Tour Registration
Oh yeah and it’s free! Good for broke entrepreneurs.

Complete web 2.0 directory

Web 2.0 directory

This is a very cool listing of web 2.0 properties and what they are used for.
complete web 2.0 directory
I consider myself pretty plugged in and I probably only knew about 10% of these companies. There are a couple things that I think are really interesting about this.
1. It is amazing there [...]

The Strippers Guide to Canoe Building. Go small or stay home.

This was my response to a recent profnet on viral marketing for small companies.  I thought it was worth sharing.
The larger your potential audience the harder it is to make something become viral.  The problem is that we all have the same base interests but our higher level interests are weird and varied.  Everyone watches [...]

Now following my updates on Twitter!

Hi, Josh Carr.
Scobleizer (Scobleizer) is now following your updates on Twitter.
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Jesse Stay (JesseStay) is now following your updates on Twitter.
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Dave Bascom (seocom) is now following your updates on Twitter.
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You know it’s nice when your heals click

We recently moved from Divinci Draper (great central location) to Divinci Cottonwood (nicer larger office).  We were all talking about what made our new office space better.  Melissa made the observation that when you are a girl you know you are in a nice building when your heals click as you walk in.  This struck [...]

Social Analytics _inspired by Chris Knudsen

Ok so after reading this post on social analytics I decided to see what I have been recording on myself.

Don’t bother me on Wednesday nights at 10pm because that is when I am catching up on my blogs.

Blog Traffic - my ego wishes these numbers were higher

I am not very popular on Twitter…I probably don’t [...]

Lets talk about usability

I was just registering on the HP website (trying to buy a printer) and this is the password requirement.
“Your new password must be a minimum of 6 characters and composed of at least 3 of the following alphanumeric combinations: lower case letters, upper case letters, numbers and/or special characters (@#$&*, etc). “
How could that possibly [...]

Link baiting to win, top ten lists are for sissy’s! Digg is so yesterday.

Link Baiting is when you put something on your site for the sole purpose of getting somebody to link to your webpage. The idea is that if all of these other sites think you are good enough to link to then google should too. If google loves you then everything else in your life [...]

“You were all wrong the correct answer is, the mormons”

For full disclosure I am going to say right up front that I am a mormon so I may be biased. I almost didn’t post about these because I don’t want everyone to think this is a missionary blog. I am not sure how I would categorize this blog but I think most [...]