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How to Bulk Follow on Twitter
Friday, November 21st, 2008 | Internet, Marketing | 7 Comments
If you have just joined Twitter then you have the daunting task of finding a community, well now there is an easy way thanks to a very cool tool from http://zbowling.com/code/twitter.html
Simply add your twitter username and password (the tool does not store this, but change your password after if worried) then paste the list of people you want to follow.
This nifty little tool allows you to add a whole bunch of influential people in your industy really easily. I would recommend that you fill in your bio and make 20-30 useful posts before attempting a bulk follow as you are more likely to get people following you in return if you look like a valuable member of the community.
To help get you started check out the links below.
Internet Marketers on Twitter
UK PRs on Twitter
UK Journalists on Twitter
Please feel free to add any other lists you find.
Google Launches Search Wiki – Customise your search results
Friday, November 21st, 2008 | Internet, Marketing | 1 Comment
Yesterday Google Launched SearchWiki a tool that allows you to manipulate search engine rankings for any keyword search just for searches you perform on Google. So for example if you type in Live Football Results you may actually want the result that is number 5 to come up as number 1, well now you can do this if you have a Google Account
Each search result now has a up and down arrow next to it allowing you to personalise your search results for any search term. Really taking search to a brand new level.
Even more powerful than that is the fact that you can now add any web page into the search results simply by going to the footer and clicking Add a result – see the screen shot below for an example where Audi now appear above BMW - I am sure you could play a couple of tricks on Corporate marketing departments with this one.
More importantly than all this is you can also see what other users have suggested or bumped up the search rankings for the search term you are looking at just by click See all notes for this SearchWiki.
It is going to be very interesting to see on where Google takes this technology and how much it will affect the natural search listings over time. In the same way sites like Digg and Sphinn take user votes and authority into consideration when ranking search results, is Google handing some of this power back to the Users is Google search going social?
What impact will this have one SEO as industry probably not much short term but long term it does pose some interesting questions.
Check out the SearchWiki demo by Google Engineer Amay below
Imagine Real Life was like Facebook
Friday, November 14th, 2008 | Comedy, Internet | Comments Off
A really really funny video from the BBC about what real life was like if it was Facebook.
Its quite old now but still woth a look – checkout the guys who made it at http://www.idiotsofants.com
Evernote.com the coolest web app of 2008
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 | Business, Internet | Comments Off
Just discovered Evernote.com and it is most definitely the coolest new web app I have come across for ages.
Evernote allows you to easily capture information in any environment using whatever device or platform you find most convenient, and makes this information accessible and searchable at any time, from anywhere.
Check it out at www.evernote.com or watch the video below.
Building a community using Twitter
Monday, November 10th, 2008 | Internet, Marketing | No Comments
Great blog post from Sarah Evans on Mashable about how to use Twitter to Build a Community.
This has got me thinking lots about how to best use twitter for me and my clients, so I have set a challenge to try and get 100 followers in 7 days.
Its Twittering time 
Blogging…Seriously Where do you find the time
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 | Internet, Life | 1 Comment
It always amazes me how much great content there are on peoples blogs. Some of my favourite blogs include www.seomoz.org , www.holymoly.co.uk and www.marketingpilgrim.com but the big question I have to ask is where do people get the time to blog.
In between twittering, being poked, emails, sms oh and doing work for clients where do people find the time!