I’ve been giving a lot of thought lately on how to make my online blog and article reading more efficient. I am subscribed to over 200 blogs in Google Reader and what used to be easy to skim on a daily basis is becoming next to impossible. I used to have more time at the last company to catch up on blog reading throughout the day, but since the switch to PlasticSurgery.com I just can’t dedicate the kind of time…
So for the last couple of days I’ve had to do some Google Local listings for clients and I noticed that Google has perhaps reverted back to it’s old phone verification process. For some time now you were given the option to have Google call you immediately or in 5 minutes. However, upon clicking finish when adding or updating a list and selecting phone verificationI have since been receiving the following screen: Seems that Google has gotten a bit impatient…
I had the chance to toy around with Wolfram Alpha today following its launch and I can say that this is definitely a different breed of search engine. It’s not cutesy like Google, it’s not as “user friendly” if you will, and it’s surely not something the general public is going to run to. It is however a tool that can be greatly useful, assuming you know how to find what you’re looking for. One of the main things I…
So this evening I was making myself a sandwich for tomorrow’s lunch and started thinking about how good the new Hilshire Farms cracked black pepper turkey breast is. I thought to myself in that moment, I should tweet about how good this is just in case there are other turkey sandwich lovers out there. And then, I thought to myself, in a world full of social media addicts, mommy bloggers, and affiliates how do you know who’s feedback to trust…
A few weeks back I did a post about a Twitter exploit that could hurt you. Many argued the exploit was more on Google’s end than Twitter’s, but that it was a valid concern nonetheless. Today when I returned from my weekend long camping trip I of course had a plethora of e-mails waiting for me, one of which was a twitter follow notification for WeaponMasters.com. I was happy to see that in the e-mail the usename was not a…