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SEO'Brien redesigns

2007-04-27T18:42:00.000-07:00

Paul's Search and online marketing blog relaunched in WordPress today adding an Internet industry events calendar.

Check it out, the new clean design is optimized for search and much more attractive

Google site optimizer

2006-10-20T13:38:00.000-07:00

A public beta of Google Website Optimizer is available now allowing site owners to test different versions of pages to determine which format performs best with graphical reports to show which content engages your audience.

Check it out Google Site Optimization

SEO'Brien how has its own domain!

2006-10-09T22:15:00.000-07:00

Check out the new home for SEO'Brien our online marketing and search engine optimization blog

Backup your photos, music, movies, etc.

2006-09-18T14:17:00.000-07:00

I love Carbonite! (and that is not a paid endorsement)
Everyone needs to back up their files. Computers fail. If only I could get my parents familiar enough with computers to do this!!!
Carbonite is the best online backup system I can find as it has unlimited space, automatic backups, and easy restoration all for only $5 a month. Other services charge much more for space, bandwidth, or features. Carboninite is simple, inexpensive, and can backup your entire computer making it a no brainer.

Greatest new web 2.0 developments

2006-09-18T14:13:00.000-07:00

Check out Wizag and riffs

riffs (http://www.riffs.com) is the brainchild of ATTAP and supposedly part of the engine that will drive the anxiously awaited LifeIO. You'll be impressed at the ease with which you can rate anything with the TiVo famous thumbs up or thumbs down icon. As you rate, riffs dynamically generates recommendations by identifying others with similar interests. A fun way to kill an a few minutes or more at work and a great way to get new ideas or recommendations on food, music, movies, tv, clothes, games, travel, schools, websites, software, and much more.

Wizag (http://www.wizag.com) is an RSS aggregator with digg and social networking integrated to allow you to rate and tag articles which then sorts your rss content to rank and optimize new articles so you see those likely of most interest to you.

If you sign up for either, look me up

Keeping your car cool during the summer.

2006-08-05T20:59:00.000-07:00

Its the middle of the summer; and its hotter than ever, the Auto Cool Solar Powered Car Fan is the answer. Auto Cool is the revolutionary solar powered ventilation system for your car! Using the power of the sun, it blows hot air out of a parked car to keep it up to 30 degrees cooler than it would normally be. Perfectly for those hot summer afternoons! Compact, it fits in any car window and does not need batteries.
Auto Cool Solar Car Fan

Check out Plazes!

2006-08-05T20:48:00.000-07:00

Plazes adds physical presence to the web. The Plazes website automatically detects your location and connects you to people and places nearby. See people in your area, discover other locations and follow the whereabouts of your friends.
Plazes

Wikio news sorter

2006-08-05T20:43:00.000-07:00

Wikio is a user managed news search engine. It watches, real time, thousands of news sources, gathers hundreds of thousands of stories every day and classifies them by their topics in a multi millions documents database. information classification is based both on its relevancy and on its members popularity who vote, discuss or even write new stories.
Wikio

Feeds 2.0 - better way to read RSS?

2006-08-05T20:38:00.000-07:00

Feeds 2.0 is a personalized RSS reader that learns from you web behavior to suggest new contnet you might like. You help it by marking pages you find interesting. Very cool idea, I'm keeping an eye on this and Wizag

Del.icio.us finally adding a feature

2006-08-05T20:34:00.000-07:00

After months of stagnant development, the Yahoo Search Blog announced a new del.icio.us feature that makes it easier for people to connect and share bookmarks. Sort of. The feature is named Network Badges, they basically shows others "your user name on del.icio.us with a link to your bookmarks, how many people you have in your network, how many fans you have, as well as a link others can use to easily add you to their own del.icio.us networks."
My question is, if the whole idea behind social networking is to connect with friends to enhance your experience by getting connected with people you like, why would someone want to post a badge on a website so random people can connect?

Great value on a mesh chair

2006-08-05T20:28:00.000-07:00

You know those famous mesh chairs renowned for their ergonomics? Combining distinctive looks with pioneering ergonomics, these chairs perform like no other. It adapts naturally and adjusts precisely to fit people of all sizes and postures doing all kinds of activities, all day long. The imaginative design of both the work and side chairs gives superior comfort, body support, and style that are widely copied but never matched. This is a good one; the only mesh chair in the world with black breathable and expandable material and a contoured mesh lumbar support. With a heavy duty metal base and dual wheel carpet casters this is the best deal I can find at only $179 for a quality mesh chair in the industry.

New Mesh Office Chair at BizChair.com

Wizag rocks!

2006-08-05T20:26:00.000-07:00

The newest player in the field of RSS aggregateors Wizag and I think it rocks! It’s an online feed reader that incorporates attention data and semantic analysis in regards to both your feeds and the larger community of Wizag users. It recommends topics, visualized points of intersection between topics and new feeds based on your interaction with the subscriptions you already have. The implementation is a little slow and it’s nothing pretty to look at, but the technology is interesting.

Check it out

diigo or spurl, Yahoo MyWeb?

2006-08-05T20:15:00.000-07:00

Who uses social bookmarking and site tagging sites? I am frustrated by the overwhelming number from which to choose and can't find any difinitive guide to help me figure out which one has the best features (and largest network of users since the social aspect is one of the perks). What do you use and recommend?

Free Tax Software

2006-07-06T08:34:00.000-07:00

http://www.esmarttax.com/ offers an online income tax software free to try. With a fee of only $9.95 to print and efile your Federal tax return and $9.95 for your state tax return. This is a quick and easy to use process which on average our users complete within 30 minutes. The premium version for $14.95 includes Federal efile, printing, and a comparison feature that most tax software companies do not offer, allowing you to compare up to 3 tax return scenarios at the same time to find the lowest taxable income and best results.
http://www.eSmartTax.com

The Internet passport photo booth

2006-07-06T08:27:00.000-07:00

ePassportPhoto empowers people from around the world to make free passport photos. http://www.epassportphoto.com

Create movie posters, magazine covers and more

2006-01-20T16:57:00.000-08:00

What are you doing with your photos?
Here's a set of great tools that allow you to pull photos from flickr to create motivational posters, magazine covers, calendars and much more with your images. Make a movie poster of your friend's most embarassing photo and order the full sized poster as a gift.
Check out Flickr Toys

Humour: Honda commercial

2006-01-20T13:15:00.000-08:00

Worth a minute of your time!
Honda UK is running a commercial in which all the sounds are created by a choir. The car noises, music in the cd player, rain and windshield wipers, all "voiced over" by a professional choir.
http://84.40.3.164/

Personal Shopper

2006-01-20T13:12:00.000-08:00

One of the best shopping sites I've seen come along in a long time, Personal Shopper dynamically updates based on your product preferences. You can open the Personal Boutique page and it will simply refresh with new product recommendations every few minutes. Add friends and family with their respective interests and preferences to receive gift reminders and recommendations in time for birthdays, anniversaries, and holidays.
This is one of the few times I'll recommend a shopping site without my being an affiliate ;)
Check them out: http://www.personalshopper.com/

My favorite old fasioned website

2006-01-06T19:14:00.000-08:00

The Octopus's Garden
http://www.rareexception.com

I'm a music nut so the site is dedicated to entertaining content related to music. Not the music itself but stories behind songs and artists. For example, we published the first online article about the Death of Paul McCartney way back in '94. Now you'll find the meaning behind the Eagles' Hotel California, Peter Paul & Mary's Puff the Magic Dragon, Don McLean and American Pie. We also have a fascinating article about the correlations between Pink Floyd and the Wizard of Oz or John Lennon and #9. Some of our most popular content includes the history of Billy Joel's We Didn't Start the Fire and Misinterpreted Song Lyrics. Stop by, kill some time. I guarantee you'll enjoy, especially the Barenaked Ladies!

Nothing special, just our new banner.

2006-01-05T19:14:00.000-08:00

What do you think? Our new banner. Simple, clean, effective? We'll see.

Humour: The Laughing Machine

2006-01-04T17:15:00.000-08:00

The Laughing Machine is an excellent blog providing humorous photos in a streamlined design so you can breeze through them and get a quick laugh.

Enjoy!

SEO'Brien: Free Site Analyzer

2006-01-03T15:50:00.000-08:00

Have a website? Is it optimized for search engines?
Use this online tool to check

SEO'Brien: Free Site Analyzer

Converting Video for iPod or Tivo

2006-01-03T14:04:00.000-08:00

Have a Tivo or video iPod (if you don't have a Tivo this is me slapping you silly - go buy one! Trust me, recorders the cable companies are giving away are not the same) and wish you could play more than just the video, shows, and movies available to it? Get Videora and its new converter software. The converters are free so in no time you can be downloading video from the internet, bittorrents, or copied from your dvds, through your Tivo or iPod.
Is it just me or does this drive another nail in the coffin of DVDs? Why would you keep all those DVD boxes around when you could put everything on your computer and call it up immediately through Tivo?
Check out Videora's converters

By the way, if you get a Tivo (and you are getting a Tivo) do me a favor and enter this email address when asked who referred you: paul_l_obrien@yahoo.com

Retrievr - best way to pass time with photos

2006-01-03T12:57:00.000-08:00

Having spent some time over the holiday on the internet, I found a few new sites to keep you entertained. retrievr leverages the highly recommended photo site flickr to show you photos based on a drawing. You'll spend hours drawing little pictures to see what photos flickr comes up with. Everything happens on retrievr, you draw a picture and images are automatically pulled to the same page. Enjoy!

American Pie Analysis

2005-12-26T16:07:00.000-08:00

The most detailed explanation of the song, the lyrics, to American Pie that you will find anywhere. Some of the information is fact, some is rumor; we only serve to entertain by providing the information in its entirety.

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