Pin Itemailprint Actor Michael Showers, who portrayed New Orleans homicide Captain John Guidry on the HBO series Treme, has been found dead in the Mississippi River. He was 45 years old. A steamboat captain spotted Showers’ body floating in the river near the French Quarter in New Orleans on Wednesday morning and phoned police. Authorities [...]
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Where did it go? That’s the question experts are asking after that massive 62-mile traffic jam in China disappeared without a trace. The monster backup on the Beijing-Tibet expressway, which started back on August 14 due to increased traffic from large cargo-bearing trucks, seems to have vanished into thin air. A crew of reporters drove [...]
Image via CrunchBase For the first time ever, Twitter has now passed Digg in U.S.-based traffic. Twitter climbed to the #84 spot in market share last week while Digg landed at #85, according to new data just released by Hitwise. The data analysis company credits the heavy Twitter traffic related to the U.S. Airways crash [...]
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Image via CrunchBase Nielsen has released its top ten list of the most popular U.S. websites of 2008. It has also listed the most popular mobile websites of ’08, along with the most popular mobile devices and even ringtones (hint!). Google seems to lead the U.Ss website list while Yahoo Mail is the top mobile [...]
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OK, now I have seen everything. If you have a sense of humor and you enjoyed things like the Emoticarolers post and Unbutton Your Beast, you will appreciate this. It seems that the battle for flatulence supremacy is alive and well over in the Apple app store. Yesterday, Apple decided to let a new genre [...]
Image by via CrunchBase We’ve talked about lots of ways to increase traffic to your blog over the last few months. Here’s another great tip from our friends over at Mason World and Firepow. If you want to get more traffic to your blog, you should take advantage of ALL possible traffic sources. How you [...]
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Here is Perry Belcher in a great video on how to successfully promote yourself using social media. This is a must-see…
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As you know, I recently began an experiment with Traffic Geyser to see if it was worth the price tag. I have now created a couple of videos and uploaded them in various different formats to the video directories and RSS sites. All in all, you can create videos very easily with Traffic Geyser. You [...]
As you know, I’ve recently begun an experiment with Traffic Geyser. On Friday, I signed up for the product and watched a couple of training videos. Over the weekend, I watched the rest of the videos, created a video, and uploaded it to all of the sites that Traffic Geyser supports, which is quite a [...]
The iPhone is the hottest thing going, there’s no doubting it. We’ve already discussed how to get a ton of free traffic to your website from iPhone users, but what about monetization? Well, it looks like AzoogleAds has rolled out beta testing for their new iPhone app. Go check it out. Azoogle is one of [...]
Traffikd has put together a very nice list of niche social media sites. It seems that, in this modern age, there is a social media site for just about every interest. Here are some of the newest and best: Design Bump: A niche site for web and graphic designers Pretty Social: Niche social news site [...]
Here’s another Halloween present for you. It’s my master list of over 60 “do follow” forums that I have collected from around the net and in my travels. Go create an account in each one, make a post or two, and enjoy the ride… http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/ http://forums.digitalpoint.com http://www.warriorforum.com http://www.blackhatworld.com http://www.dnforum.com/ http://forums.seroundtable.com/ http://www.submitexpress.com/bbs/ http://www.startups.co.uk/ http://www.webmaster-talk.com/ http://www.webicy.com/ http://6pins.com/blog/ [...]
