Quote of The Day - Mohandas Gandi
August 21, 2007
“Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.”
- Mohandas Gandhi
Can We “Add This” Feature to our Blog?
August 20, 2007
I noticed that TechCrunch was using this, should we add it? They have a write up on AddThis you may want to review as well. If we want to add the AddThis widget to our site, the customization tool is here. We can try it out here and see if we think it will be something to add to the RV.Net Blog.
Benefits of AddThis Widget are:
- Easy Bookmarking - Makes it very easy for your visitors to bookmark your website or blog, and subscribe to your feeds (support most bookmarking and feed reader services)
- Social Traffic - Helps your visitors promote your website or blog to the social bookmarking services, which will bring back more traffïc to your website or blog.
- Less Clutter - Saves real-estate and reduces confusion on your website. You just put one button; we worry about all the other buttons for you.
- Statistics - Provides valuable statistics showing what content your visitors bookmark the most on your website or blog, over various time periods (and more soon)
- Free - All this is completely free, and will remain free.
Pick-n-Click Ads - The Worlds First Virtual Advertising Agency?
August 20, 2007
Jose sent a link to Pick-n-Click Ads in to me. It is a great example of a company attempting to take advantage of the long tail of advertising. This site appears to allow you to pick and click to create your own ads in the following media:
- Radio
- Television
- Direct Mail
- Online
- Collateral
Stacey at Ehlert would like to explore creating something like this online for marketplace ads in their publications.
What if people could fill out, choose a couple of creative layout options, pick which of our magazines they want to run in, put in a credit card and get an ad placed. And the ad uploads to the appropriate magazine ftp site, the production coordinate grabs the ad and it runs. They could have the option of running the ad in print and online. Since Boating Industry and Powerboat seem to be the two mags with the most marketplace ads it would be great if we could test something with those two sites in particular.
Any ideas how we could pull something like this off?
Quote of The Day - C. S. Lewis
August 20, 2007
“You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.”
- C. S. Lewis
Debugging
August 17, 2007
How were insects once used in the diagnosis of a serious disease?
Let me know if you need hints.
Quote of The Day - John F. Kennedy
August 17, 2007
“We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
- John F. Kennedy
Fullscreen Publications - Full Immersion Experience
August 16, 2007
Chuck, Stacey and I meet with Fullscreen Publications a couple days ago. This is the second time I have reviewed their product offering. The biggest difference between what they had 2 years ago and now is:
- Increased control over the display and layout via a web based wysiwyg editor
- They now have an app you can buy for your own servers vs. a hosted solution
Their product is absolutely amazing. It would be perfect for a magazine, event, Tour business or even a product like CSP. Go to the site and click portfolio and the watch. Hot.
The Archaeologist
August 16, 2007
A professor of archaeology was on an excavation at the site when he found an ancient and interesting item. He took it home and put it in his study. His wife and children were away so there was no other person in the house. He locked up and went to bed. In the morning he was horrified to find the item was gone. A thorough search showed it was not in the house. There had been no break-in and no one else had entered or left the house. What had happened?
Quote of the Day - William of Ockham
August 16, 2007
“Odds are that the simplest solution to a problem is the correct one.”
This is know as “lex parsimoniae” or the law of succinctnesses.
Is Snap Shot a Slapshot?
August 15, 2007
I thought this tool looked very cool and compelling. They have many kinds of snapsohots you can add to your site. Click here and scroll down to see all the options. The configuration tool is here.
Can we add this to our our blog, article server and user contributed content server at AGI? What about the directory sites, etc . . . . What do you guys think? How can we use this? Can we integrate it with the Forums?