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Google Social Search

Friday, October 30th, 2009

If you’re like me and do most of your industry specific research online, you probably have a set of blogs and web sites that you trust and rely on more than any others. For a long time, I wished that I could do a Google search within just those trusted sites because I knew that all the results would be reliable.

That ability is now available with Google’s Social Search feature. Right now it’s only available by activating it in Google Labs and of course you must be signed into your Google account for it to work.

Google Social Search in Google Labs Read more... (290 words, 3 images, estimated 1:10 mins reading time)

Posted in Tools, Tips and Tricks | 1 Comment »

YUI Uploader and Crossdomain Permissions

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

I’ve recently updated to YUI 2.8.0r4 for a project that was using YUI 2.7. Unfortunately after pointing my script tag to use the newer version of YUI the uploader widget stopped working with the existing code.

As it turns out uploader.swf found in the build directory is broken but uploader.swf found in the examples directory works.

For testing purposes I updated my script to use uploader.swf hosted by YAHOO with the following javascript:

YAHOO.widget.Uploader.SWFURL = "http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/examples/uploader/assets/uploader.swf";

This didn’t work either and since I was no longer hosting uploader.swf on the same domain. The reason for this is best explained by the YUI team: Read more... (285 words, 1 image, estimated 1:08 mins reading time)

Posted in Web Development | 1 Comment »

Live every day to the fullest and see the bigger picture

Monday, October 26th, 2009

Its interesting the way life’s experiences change your outlook on the way you live every day. I just had 3 instances in my life in the last 6 months that have changed my outlook, two people I knew very well have passed away suddenly and my father in law got sick and almost did not make it through an operation. I automatically started to think of every day as the day to live to its fullest. Its hard though because if you are a planner you continue to live the days and plan for years to come. Bottom line is you may not be around for years to come so make your impact now, do what is important to you and be giving and honest with others. Remember in the long run money is’nt everything, to me money just allows you to do fun things but it sure does not buy happiness. When you die people don’t talk about the money you have (or had) they talk about how you were as a person, how many friends you had and what impact you had on others lives. Read more... (201 words, 1 image, estimated 48 secs reading time)

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Lyndsay Walker’s Winter Speaking Schedule

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

It’s been a busy past week or so as I’ve been scheduled for more speaking opportunities. It will be a nice busy winter as I get to do some traveling and meeting new people. What could be better?

If you’re interested in hearing me speak, come attend any of the fabulous conferences/seminars below.

PubCon Las Vegas – November 10-13, 2009
Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada
www.pubcon.com
SEO Design & Organic Site Structure – November 11, 2009

Affiliate Summit West – January 17-19, 2010
Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada
www.affiliatesummit.com
Site Clinic by the Women of SEO – January 19, 2010 Read more... (126 words, 1 image, estimated 30 secs reading time)

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Does my website look bad?

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

It amazes me how some people can fully understand the difference between nice graphic designed print material and bad graphic designed print material. They can pick the poor one out in a second. However, they can look at their 10 year old website and say that it still looks fine and do you think we need to change it. Last client I was into see I felt like an optometrist, what looks better site A or site B, again A or B. He got it but it took a little convincing. Read more... (346 words, 1 image, estimated 1:23 mins reading time)

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Running a completely different linux distro with chroot

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

The Linux chroot environments are often used to run pieces of software that are not compatable with the running distribution. For example, people running 64 bit Linux distributions will often create a 32 bit chroot environment based on that same distribution to run 32 bit software that might have better support. Adobe’s flash is a good example from the past: before 64 bit linux really gained popularity, only the 32 bit version of Adobe flash was available natively. But what if you need to install something that isn’t supported natively by your distribution at all, but is under a different distribution, and you’d like to keep package management the same? Read more... (291 words, 1 image, estimated 1:10 mins reading time)

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[Light Post Friday] Dane Cook’s Local Ads on NBA Live

Friday, October 16th, 2009

You might know this already, but it’s the first time for me to see a local ad being posted on an NBA Live PlayStation game. Here are some screencaps I took for Dane Cook’s show at MTS Centre, Winnipeg.

Great use of geotargeting. What’s your online marketing strategy?

Tags: canada, dane cook, geotargeting, manitoba, mts centre, winnipeg
Posted in Online Marketing, Tools, Tips and Tricks | 2 Comments »

[Quick Post] Warning: Don’t change your Twitter username, email address or password

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

Twitter is currently investigating on a problem. And while this is being resolved, Twitter advises everyone not to change their username, email address or password or the bug will lock your account out.

From Twitter:

We’re currently researching reports from users who are locked out after trying to reset their passwords or change their email address or user names. This seems to affect new users as well as long term users; we do not advise changing your user name, email address, or password at this time. We will update Status with more news as it becomes available.

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Are you an email spammer?

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

Email blasts, done correctly and ethically, can be a very effective way to promote your company. It still amazes me how many people still do not understand email laws and do not adhere to them. I think the attitude from customers towards paying for email blasts can be negative, as a lot of customers think of email as free to send and don’t realize that there are specific rules to follow in order for their email not to be considered spam. The following outlines these guidelines. Read more... (313 words, 1 image, estimated 1:15 mins reading time)