Social Bookmarking

There are two main services that I have come across that handle social bookmarking.

Posttoaster.com offers links to 69 different services. The two drawbacks are, not all the services are live and Posttoaster isn’t fully automated. Once you create your titles and descriptions, Posttoaster just provides links to the different sites that the user most then click and monitor to make sure they work correctly.

Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars

I haven’t checked it out personally yet, but SocialMarker.com is another Social Bookmarking aggregate mentioned in Michelle Macphearson blog. SocialMarker has 45 different services that they link to and also offer a website plug-in and a very popular WordPress plug-in.

Social Profile

There are two services that I really like that help manage and maintain your profile across a variety of different sites.

MyBlogLog.com allows you to build a comprehensive profile including almost every major service. I love the way it builds a linked profile for you to display on your site and the way most major blogs have the service integrated. The coolest thing is that MyBlogLog will automatically suggest groups to join depending on the sites you are visiting.

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars 

The other service I like that works a little differently is FriendFeed.com. FriendFeed aggregates what you are doing and creates a feed basd on these actions. For example, you FriendFeed has your Flickr account, when you load pictures into Flickr, FriendFeed will add it to your feed automatically. Additionally, FriendFeed’s Facebook integration makes it so all your friends know.

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

Micro-Blogging

I recently discovered Hellotxt.com and so far I think it is magnificent. The simple Ajax interface makes it easy to update all your Micro-Blogs like Twitter.com and Plaxo.com from either their website or from Facebook. I love that it includes a lot of international Twitter imitators (14 total) that I had never heard of.

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

I stumbled on to these links of Design Resources and Amazing Posters and I couldn’t help but think to myself “things are looking much better these days.”

I remember just a couple of years ago (ok, eight) and the only sites with consistently good design were K10K, Design is Kinky, and Shift.co.jp.  Everything else may have some interesting links or some cool art but now a days everything is looking so much better.  Yesterday I found HypeBeast looking for Joy Division stuff and I couldn’t believe how much I liked the design.  Heres a site that basically looked like a store and I was eating it all up.  They call themselves a magazine but really all they need is a “Buy Now” button and they would be a store.  Back to the point, they are a store and their design looks great and I am just eating it up.

The downside maybe that we are all feeding out of the same trough.   Maybe the reason everything looks good is that we are all moving down the same narrow thought hallway.  I think that since I’m inside the thought bubble it will really take something amazing outside my sphere of influence to wake me up.

Because of BlipNut’s unique ability to “tag” any page and leave comments, I have been using the sidebar to tag my other profile pages and link them all together.

1. First, create a list of all the links to all your projects and profile pages.  As you can see from my page, I have links from my MySpace page, Facebook account, Twitter, and even Shelfari.
2. Next, download and install the BlipNut sidebar from BlipNut.com.
3. Visit your profile page and “add blip” to each of the pages.

Additionally,  all of your pages will have an additonal link from BlipNut’s recent page if you are interested in branding yourself via Google.

Chinese internet marketing is about to wake up.
http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?id=1005801

Understanding Chinese business.
http://www.chinasolved.com/blog/?page_id=71

Chinese Internet Network Information Center (CINIC).
http://www.cnnic.cn/en/index/index.htm

SEO:
TopRank released 20 cool blog analytics tools.
http://www.toprankblog.com/2008/01/20-blog-analytics-tools/
RobotReader tracks user mouse movements on the page.
http://www.robotreplay.com/
Co.mment tracks your comments for you.
http://co.mments.com/conversations

SEOBook Keyword Suggestion Tool.
http://tools.seobook.com/keyword-tools/seobook/

Keyword Optimization tools.
http://tools.seobook.com/keyword-tools/seobook/

Resources:
Track your profile distinctiveness.
http://www.careerdistinction.com/onlineid/step1.html

Build your own Google Homepage theme.
http://code.google.com/apis/themes/#Examples

Track comments on any webpage.
http://co.mments.com/

50 Google Canendar hacks.
http://www.virtualhosting.com/blog/2008/50-tips-tweaks-and-hacks-to-make-the-most-of-google-calendar/

Resources:
An incredibly detail list of tools and learning material. Over 2000 tools.
http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/Directory/index.html

Guide to developing strategic content.
http://www.copyblogger.com/strategic-content-development/

14 important usability guidelines.
http://www.emarketingperformance.com/:/1833/search-marketing/14-website-usability-guidelines-that-keep-them-coming-back-for-more/

Headline writing tips.
http://www.copyblogger.com/sex-and-the-city/

SEM:
70 quick Google tests.
http://www.apollosem.org/70-quick-tests-to-get-more-conversions-out-of-adwords/

SEO:
Dosh Dosh list of 47 Social News sites worth checking out.
http://www.doshdosh.com/list-of-social-media-news-websites/

41 places to advertise your business locally.
http://www.ecommerceoptimization.com/local-business-listing-guide/

An amazing list of all the Digg like clones (over 380 websites).
http://3spots.blogspot.com/2006/04/all-digg-style-applications-list.html

RSS Footer plug-in for WordPress.
http://www.joostdevalk.nl/make-the-scrapers-work-for-you/

10 steps for social media success.
http://searchengineland.com/080108-134105.php

Interesting article about linking offline and online content.
http://www.10e20.com/blog/2008/01/10/when-offline-linkbait-ignores-the-online-part/

2008 local SEO predictions.
http://www.localseoguide.com/local-seo-2008-predictions/

25 SEO related ideas.
http://www.capecodseo.com/25-seo-related-things-to-do-during-must-see-tv-thursdays/

4 SEO competitor research tools.
http://www.seodesignsolutions.com/blog/seo-tools/4-indispensable-seo-tools-for-competitive-research/

SEO WordPress plug-ins.
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/best-seo-plugin-for-wordpress-of-2007/6207/

Resources:
Instructables How To on optimizing XP.
http://www.instructables.com/id/WinXP-Overhaul-Guide-How-to-make-it-look-like-Vis/

Lots of Adobe Photoshop tutorials by Smashing Magazine.
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/01/10/adobe-photoshop-tutorials-best-of/

Google Checkout trends.
http://checkout.google.com/trends

Edit PDF documents online.
http://lifehacker.com/343325/edit-pdfs-online-with-pdfhammer

Reprinted public domain books.
http://www.publicdomainreprints.org/

Make your mini online marketing plan.
http://www.conversationmarketing.com/2008/01/10_steps_to_a_sound_internet_m.htm

SEM:
Initial review of AdCenters new Excel tool.
http://danzarrella.com/initial-thoughts-on-ad-intelligence.html

SEO:
Become a Google approving link partner.
http://www.wolf-howl.com/google/want-an-editorially-approved-link-become-a-google-partner/

Good strategies on developing a sound SEO plan.
http://searchengineland.com/080109-112819.php

Web Amusing:
The Decapitator terrorizes London advertisers.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_decapitator/

Fun Stumbleupon Error Hack.
http://patrickdevivo.com/2007/12/29/cool-stumbleupon-trick/

Dumba$$ of the week: Gene marks.
http://www.ask-kalena.com/rants/dumbass-of-the-week-gene-marks/

How to dominate Sphinn.
http://www.huomah.com/internet-marketing/social-media-marketing/how-to-dominate-sphinn-in-4-easy-steps.html

Tips for finding friends on Digg.
http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/tips-for-finding-and-securing-the-right-friends-on-digg.html

Twitter for Bloggers.
http://performancing.com/twitter/quick-introduction-twitter-bloggers

I love future marketing predictions.
http://publications.mediapost.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.showArticleHomePage&art_aid=73862

SEO:
The SEO pyramid: a great reference for successful SEO.
http://www.smallbusinesssem.com/the-seo-success-pyramid/971/

What SEO experts put in their robot text (examples).
http://www.hobo-web.co.uk/seo-blog/index.php/robots-txt-files/

Make sure you get the SEO benefit of your Google Checkout.
http://www.wolf-howl.com/google/google-gives-free-pr8-links-to-paid-partners/

Complete list of social bookmarking submission tools.
http://www.toprankblog.com/2008/01/social-bookmarking-submission-tools/

Incredible detailed and helpful guide to anchor tag linking.
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/a-diagram-that-can-help-you-define-the-proper-anchor-text-of-internal-links

The 9 giant lists of social sites (a little over-whelming).
http://www.improvetheweb.com/use-9-giant-lists-social-sites-save-time-and-get-traffic

SEM:
Try out WordZ, a long-tail keyword research tool, free for 30 days.
http://www.wordze.com/freekeywordresearch.php

Excel plug-in for AdCenter.
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/080108-233158

Resources:
Semi-cheap (but not free) online storage by Amazon
http://www.jungledisk.com/

I really like this open source music streaming file manager.
http://www.ampache.org/