There are many great reasons for businesses to use 140Plus.com but one clearly stands out: increasing your keyword rankings and growing your organic search traffic. 140Plus.com makes it easy to increase the number of terms that your website can rank for without cluttering your site with extra pages that might make your site bloated...
Facebook has just done Google a huge favor
Facebook is rolling out two new features that appear to be a direct reaction to Google+ (and to a lesser degree Twitter). Of course we have no way of knowing how long Facebook has been planning these features, but the timing and similarity to Google+ features certainly makes it appear to be a copycat...
Google+ The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
I’ve been told that nothing we know about Google+ can be criticized because it is pre-beta. Okay then. Well, here’s some quick takes after trying it out a bit. 1. The Good This section is the hardest to fill in for me. We already have Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn (and others). It makes it...
Twitterverse reality check and lessons learned
You’ll probably never know it by looking at the final result, but I’ve been working on this post, at least thinking about it, for several months. I’ve been reluctant to publish it because every time I start, it tends to sound like a rant and that’s not what I want this to be about. As anybody...
Introducing 140plus.com
I’m in the process of shutting down one service (Twitmart.org) and at the same time firing up a new one at 140plus.com. I essentially put 140plus.com together for my own needs but made it general enough for anybody to use. I’ve been trying to decide what to do with the 140plus.com domain for a...
Taglets.org to be shutdown October 22, 2010.
I’m sad to see it go, but the time as come. We’ve enjoyed the experiment with Taglets.org this past year and a half, but it’s time to move on and shutdown the service. We haven’t driven the sort of usage we originally had hoped. Thanks for joining with us while we attempted to see...
An Answer for Twitter OAuth-pacalypse
For your smaller Twitter API projects, bash scripts etc, we have launched SuperTweet.net in case you don’t get OAuth implemented by the time Basic Auth goes away June 30, 2010. It’s a Twitter proxy – you use Basic Auth to talk to the proxy, and it uses OAuth to talk to Twitter. For example,...
Is it time to drop the Twit, Tweet, etc. from your App Name?
There has been a storm of sorts this past week surrounding Twitter, their developers, and the “ecosystem”. It started with some comments from VC Fred Wilson followed by comments from Twitter CEO Ev Williams in a New York Times interview, and culminating in Twitter buying Atebits and thereby creating an official iPhone app: Tweetie....
Twitmart ported OFF of Google App Engine
I discussed a few weeks ago how I had ported the Twitmart.org site to Google App Engine for Java as an experiment. This was an excellent learning experience. Unfortunately, the performance on App Engine was simply unacceptable, so now the site is back off of App Engine and running on one of my own...
Experimenting with Google AppEngine for Java
A while back, I noted that Google had announced that they would be supporting Java on their AppEngine cloud computing platform. I finally got around to working on a significant AppEngine for Java project (something beyond “hello world” or the demo “Guestbook” app). Working with my friend and colleague, and serious Java guru, Mark...
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