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History of the Internet

For your inner geek, the past is pixel:
History of the Internet from PICOL on Vimeo.

Cherple!

Not rocket science but interesting.  Does this mean we should Cherple before we Tweet?

(I tried it briefly and it seemed to live up to its promise, holler with any experiences with it or ideas for its use.)

Modern Marketing in 4 Mins

This pretty much recaps where we've been and where we're at:

Twitter Data

Everyone's twittering about Twitter.  Including me.  A common question remains: What value is it?  The short response is found in the numbers.  Is it - or isn't it - an effective method to engage an audience?  Obviously the answer is partially dependent upon the message/user.  Here's a report that puts some numbers behind the intuitive conclusions on Twitter use and reach.

SocNet Impact

Everyone knows Social Networks (SocNets) have a huge impact.  Just last week we learned Facebook is growing by 5 million users per week (1 million in the US alone).  Here's a presentation on some of the measurements of SocNet impact:

The Social Technographics® Of Business Buyers

View more presentations from Oliver Young. (tags: oliver_young laura_ramos)

Urge Me

The cleanest of GTD applications.  Send yourself a reminder (vie the website, your mobile, etc.) with the essence of what needs to be done when, and boom, you have an e-mail reminder.  The utility of this service is clearly its simplicity.

This is one of a gazzillion reminder tools, but again, so simple!  Check it out.

Whspr!

You're running a small team and you need to post on your website an e-mail address for folks to contact your project's lead to coordinate involvement.  The problem, you post any e-mail address online and spam spiders will find it and pump it full of junk.  Here's where WHSPR! can help.  Simply create a temporary URL that folks will click on and it takes them to a contact form that forwards their message wherever you've programed it.  Nifty!

News copy on demand

  Read the picture!  :)  Check out the application here.

Refresh & Reload

For those who keep an extra monitor on their desk or have one set-up in a public area to display a website, this nifty net application will automatically refresh the site's URL every 30 seconds.  Simple concept.

If you have this need this site fills it.

PageReboot does exactly what its title proclaims.  Now every site open in your browser can have the Drudge utility of infinite renewal.

Open this page, type in the site address you want and there you have it...every 30 seconds the page is refreshed.

Trackle that Issue

Trackle is a new online web alert hub seeking to replace services like 'Google Alerts.'  If you need a more robust form of issue / people / topic tracking, including RSS or e-mail alerting then this is a tool for your use.