Entries categorized as 'Web 2.0'
Over at How To Change The World, Guy Kawasaki (you know, the Mac guy) tossed out a post about a tool called Website Grader. This free tool gives your website a SEO “grade”
I entered in this site’s information and was given, within minutes, a score and a few items where I can improve my site reach to my audience.
based on a few criteria that you enter into the site. Being that I’m always interested in the reach that my website has, I entered in this site’s information and was given, within minutes, a score and a few items where I can improve my site reach to my audience.
It would seem that I have a lot of room for search engine optimization improvement. In other words, my scores were…lacking. I definitely will be working on that presently behind the scenes. Successful networking is certainly something that I am all about these days.
How are you working on SEO? Feel free to email me, or drop me a note in the comments.
Categories: 1 · Blogs · Free · Free Stuff · Internet · POW - The blog · Web 2.0
Tagged: Blog, Blogging, Free, SEO, Web 2.0
Recently I’ve been doing a little guest posting on a website called Shakadoo.com. What do they do? Take a look at their first page:
Shakadoo is a site written and created for those who love their home. Whether you live in a condo or a castle, Shakadoo has a place for you.
Shakadoo has several different “shaks”: the LoanShak, WorkShak, ShakYard, Shaktronics, Shak In Style, Shakhammer and the Love Shak, Baby (love that title). It’s an interesting community that they are trying to build there that I would recommend that you check out.
However, don’t think that my “pro” blogging job will decrease my regular blogging output. You see, I know how to use Google. Ah, the Internet is a wonderful place.
There are some single dads out there that I owe a post to, though. I haven’t forgotten about you. Expect it tomorrow.
Categories: Books · Google · Human Interest · Internet · Web 2.0
I had heard about this website quite a while ago, but for some reason, I didn't remember it and link it. Fortunately, I ran across it again and am determined to correct my error:
featuring - Kiva: From their About Page:
Kiva lets you connect with and loan money to unique small businesses in the developing world. By choosing a business on
Kiva.org, you can "sponsor a business" and help the world's working poor make great strides towards economic independence. Throughout the course of the loan (usually 6-12 months), you can receive email journal updates from the business you've sponsored. As loans are repaid, you get your loan money back.
Now, I haven't tried
kiva.org yet, but I intend to do exactly that, and you can bet that once I do, I will blog the experience for everyone. Kiva has had
some remarkable press, but then again, so have quite a few other organizations… some of which turned out to perform, well, quite poorly in the end. I won't post links to those examples, but unless you've lived under a rock for the last three decades, you can probably pick a few busts.
Needless to say,
microfinance sounds like a wonderful idea whose time has come. Become an international financier!
Categories: Human Interest · Internet · Web 2.0
Here's are the topics:
Berkeley Courses With Video Lectures
Sites Offering Free Courses
Free Online Documentaries
Learn Languages on iTunes
Educational Videos
Education With Podcasting
Useful Free Software For Students
Web 2.0 For Students
Reference Sites
Ask Questions
Tiny Flash Freeware
Free Ebooks
Learn Languages
Free Ear Training Software
Not kidding. This is a valuable resource. Use it.
Categories: Free · Free Stuff · Human Interest · Web 2.0
January 14, 2007 · 1 Comment
Eat turmeric. Clue: It's in curry, people.
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Recently a number of natural compounds–such as resveratrol from red wine and omega-3 fatty acids from fish oil–have begun to receive close scrutiny because preliminary research suggests they might treat and prevent disease inexpensively with few side effects. Turmeric, an orange-yellow powder from an Asian plant, Curcuma longa, has joined this list. No longer is it just an ingredient in vindaloos and tandooris that, since ancient times, has flavored food and prevented spoilage.
A chapter in a forthcoming book, for instance, describes the biologically active components of turmeric–curcumin and related compounds called curcuminoids–as having antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antiviral, antibacterial and antifungal properties, with potential activity against cancer, diabetes, arthritis, Alzheimer's disease and other chronic maladies. And in 2005 nearly 300 scientific and technical papers referenced curcumin in the National Library of Medicine's PubMed database, compared with about 100 just five years earlier.
Scientists who sometimes jokingly label themselves curcuminologists are drawn to the compound both because of its many possible valuable effects in the body and its apparent low toxicity. They ponder how the spice or its derivatives might be used, not just as a treatment but as a low-cost preventive medication for some of the most feared ailments. As a treatment, it also has some enticing attributes. Because curcumin targets so many biological pathways, it could have benefits for cancer therapy: malignant cells may be slow to acquire resistance to it and so might have to go through multiple mutations to avoid the substance's multipronged attack.
That's from Scientific American. Not kidding, this is for real. Can curry help prevent cancer? Diabetes? Alzheimer's? Zing!
I have a sudden urge for Indian food.
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Categories: Health · Human Interest · Web 2.0
Here you are the most interesting web 2.0 site all over the internet, please if you have more sites add them to the comments
I still don't know what Web 2.0 means though. Is that like a WebX or something? Web to the extreme?
Generation Web?
Doesn't matter. All that I know is that
YouTube,
Weblogs, Inc.,
Digg,
Skype, and whatnot are kind of the future for the Internet. Wise to check out the article and probably bookmark it. I know that I'm waaaaay behind the curve on the proper use of internet tools. If I have some time I'll try to catch up.
Categories: Blogs · Human Interest · Internet · Internet Meme · Web 2.0
Here’s something cool, maybe.
Backpack is 37Signals’s latest project — a Web-based personal information manager that makes it easy to create projects, break them down into steps, and then track each step. Because it’s Web-based, it’s well suited to communicating and collaborating with other people, sharing tasks and status-messages, The whole thing syndicates as XML, streaming updates into your RSS reader or to your phone. It synchs with iCal and thence to your handheld PIM.
Via The Directory Of Wonderful Things.
I say try it. Me, I love gadgets. But for some reason that I can’t understand, I can’t quite bring myself to buy a PDA. Maybe if this blogging thing takes off, I’ll turn into one of those guys that blogs in a coffeeshop in a geek-chic or hipster outfit, and when someone says something around me that I find personally offensive, I can turn to them, scowl, and stir my coffee (black) at them vigorously.
Nah, not me.
Instead, here’s a picture of Katie Holmes
without that one guy.
Categories: Free · Human Interest · Internet · Software · Web 2.0
