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These are my links for February 24th through February 25th:

• 5 Fantastic Facebook Fan Page Ideas to Learn From – This article shows a few examples of what to use a business Facebook Fan Page for: a landing page with a simple call to action (which eventually utilizes FB photo sharing to host user photos), full functionality micro sites, and coupons.
• Why Do People Always Order Ginger Ale When They Fly? : We allow some flight attendants to speculate wildly – CHOW – I clicked this just because I am definitely more likely to drink ginger ale on a flight vs real life. I think it has something to do with having something crisp and refreshing whilst being packed in with all those humid humans. 7up doesn’t cut it. Too sweet.
• Before & After magazine e-list – How to find the perfect color for your next design. As seen on Lifehacker. This is a PDF with some basic color theory and a tutorial on using colors in an image to build the perfect palette.

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These are my links for February 22nd through February 24th:

• UNBOUND Technologies – Social Data Append, Leader In Social Network Intelligence, – According to the DishyMix podcast, these guys have developed technology that allows you to identify the influencers in your social graph. That’s the silver bullet for brands engaged in social influence marketing. Identifying influencers has to be one of the most difficult tasks for SIM marketers these days; right up there with showing ROI.
• Review of new “Beachtek DXA-SLR” XLR adaptor for HD-DSLR cameras | Philip Bloom – A new pro audio hardware de facto standard for a 7D workflow.I was wondering when the breakouts for the DSLRs were going to finally make the pro level. This answered everything I wanted to know. Mostly, I feel like I now know what will be the standard for recording pro audio in a 7D workflow.It’s still going to feel funny piping into that mini-jack, no matter how you slice it, though.Oh, and BeachTek: I have mega lust for the DXA-SLR, but please hire a graphic designer for that packaging. Yikes.
• Brad Callen’s PPC Web Spy – Discover your competitor’s AdWords keywords
• SEOmoz | Google Link: Command – Busting the Myths – Don’t take those inbound link search results too literally.
• ROI: How to Measure Return on Investment in Social Media -

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These are my links for February 13th through February 20th:

• newsmap.jp – Real-time news story visualization by size and color.
• JetBlue uses Twitter to test digital credentials – Related Stories – AAAA SmartBrief –
• 20 Fantastic Usability & Conversion Analysis Tools | Spyre Studios –
• FeedWordPress | simple and flexible Atom/RSS syndication for WordPress – RSS to WordPress posts
• My Top 3 Google Buzz Tips – 3 tips for filtering the noise in Google Buzz

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There are a few web pages that I always have open. Google Reader, Vitalist, and Workamajig (yikes). Sites like Mint and, (shameless plug) Twuffer are even beginning to make the tabs-never-to-be-closed list.

Fluid is written by ex-Apple Dashboard developer Todd Ditchendorf. It allows you to create Site Specific Browsers, or SSBs. Thanks to Fluid, “you can create SSBs to run each of your favorite WebApps as a separate Cocoa desktop application.” It’s Mac OSX Leopard only, so all you Tiger cats need to upgrade.

My immediate goal was to make an SSB of Google Reader. I think of Google Reader as a separate RSS aggregator app anyhow, so why not make it totally separate from the browser? I downloaded Fluid from the site, unpacked it, and moved it to my Apps folder.

Create a Fluid SSB

When you launch Fluid, it asks you for the URL of the site to app-ize (appify?), what you want to call the app, where to put it, and even what you want to use for the app’s icon. If you leave the default on that last option, your app switcher will use a giant, blurry version of the favicon gleaned from the web.

Google Reader SSB. (yes, thats 1000+ unread)

The magic happens, and the next thing you’ll see is your new web app all neatly bundled in it’s own page, complete with it’s own taskbar. To really burn up time that might otherwise be productive, think about your web apps having their own taskbar and what that allows you to do. Super nerds will love the Convert to MenuExtra SSB option so you can drop the app down from next to your clock, then fold it up again. Google Calendar perhaps?

That’s right Gmail fans, you can now participate with your Apple Mail and Outlook cohorts in email client groan fests. And all you protective tweeters out there who like your Twitter in a comfy, toasted, no-butter browser style aesthetic, Fluid was made for you. I’m off to make a stand-alone Twuffer app.

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According to CrunchGear, a new service called Pastebud (@pastebud)will be released tomorrow enabling copy and paste for iPhone. From what I can tell, it cleverly uses 2 Javascript bookmarks and a web service to store the clipping whilst you switch apps. Cool, and a great temporary fix while Apple figures out how to make this possible internally on the iPhone.

Wait, Pastebud is going to store, at least temporarily, all the little clippings we’re all copying. That means they are going to have access to stats about not only what pages we’re looking at, but the exact phrases we’re interested in. How ’bout that for a targeted marketing opportunity?

That kind of statistical detail is worth a lot to advertisers. I wonder if Pastebud will be account driven? Hmm. In any case, I’ll bet we see a some sort of “most copied” web site or report ala Google’s Zeitgeist which will be interesting, if not profitable for Pastebud.

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The actual figure for Twitter user stats is hard to get, unless you’re a Twitter employee.  Here’s a list of links that are helpful in estimating just how many Tweeters are out there.

http://www.twitdir.com displays a running total of the number of public Twitter users in it’s directory.

http://tweetrush.com analyzes number of tweets sent over the last 7 days.

http://www.twitterholic.com lists the most popular Twitter users by followers.

http://www.compete.com shows the approx number of unique visitors to the twitter.com site.

Finally, see Michael Arrington’s post about this topic on TechCrunch from April 2008.

Update:

For a look at the volume of tweets per hour and per day, check GigaTweet. Lovely graphs.

See also Quantcast’s analysis of twitter.com. These stats are only for the twitter.com web site, and do not include desktop or mobile Twitter client users.

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Turn on 2 fingers and click for right click on a mac laptop.

If you haven’t noticed that your Apple laptop doesnt have a right click trackpad button, I envy you.  For those that have, you may have figured out that you can hold ctrl and click to bring up the right click menu.

Here’s a new, easier way from Lifehacker’s Top Ten Right Click Tools that I’ll be adopting immediately.  In System Preferences, (click the Apple logo in the upper left) choose Keyboard & Mouse.  Check the “Tap trackpad using two fingers for secondary click” checkbox.

Now, to fire trigger the right click, put two fingers on the trackpad, and click!

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Some sites will tell you that you need to upgrade your Flash player to see their content. Don’t always believe it. Check your Flash Player version, and compare it to the latest Flash Player version here: http://tinyurl.com/yrlrvb. Sometimes, the developer makes an assumption about which browser or operating system you might be using. If you don’t match that assumption, they will toss you the “upgrade your Flash Player version” error. Don’t believe the hype!

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