Thomas, Author at TwisterMc

Netvibes – A Great Web Portal

1 May, 2006

Last week I did a short review on web portals. Granted, I did forget Pagefakes which appears to be very cool. It has a full array of widgets along with most of the functionality I wanted, however it lacks POP/IMAP email integration. But it’s coming…. soon or so they say. However, a few days ago […]

Yahoo Site Explorer Lies

28 Apr, 2006

I’m not sure for how long, but I run a bunch of sites though Yahoo Site Explorer each month to track inlinks and indexed pages and this month my numbers were way off from previous months. It seems, that by default, Yahoo Site Explorer is setup to count inlinks from all URLs (including the one […]

IE: Flash and ActiveX Stopped

28 Apr, 2006

I read an interesting article on SEOMoz today about how IE got sued and now all IE users must hop though a few hops before viewing any Flash or ActiveX content on the web. …anyone using Internet Explorer now has to “activate” any flash or active-x element related to their website (EOLAS 521 millions lawsuit […]

Cool Web Portals

26 Apr, 2006

I’ve recently began researching web portals. I haven’t been a big fan of them in the past, but I’ve started to get back into them a little more. It’s just nice haveing a one stop site to get the latest news via RSS, email, the weather and photos. So I decided to see what was […]

Re-Discovering Del.icio.us

24 Apr, 2006

I’ve been social booking sites for a while now. I started with Furl and have tried many different services. Spurl is my favorite, however, del.icio.us seems to be the site of choice in the mainstream. Now I say mainstream loosely as social bookmarking is not known or understood my many, however those that do know […]

Back from PubCon

21 Apr, 2006

I’ve made it home from my first PubCon. It was great to go out, learn new things and network. I really think that having the networking time at the end is a great way to close a conference. It really gives people a chance to get together and ask any questions they have or just […]

PubCon Day Two – Blogs, Links, MSN Driving

20 Apr, 2006

Yes this post is a little late, get over it. The second day of PubCon went very well. It started off with Matt Cutts (Google), Robert Scoble (MSN) and Jeremy Zawodny (Yahoo) talking about their blogs. How they love the feedback and the human effect it adds to their companies. They even talked about the […]

PubCon Day One : Malcom, Local, YPN

19 Apr, 2006

Day one started out with Malcom Gladwell’s keynote. I’ll admit I’ve never heard of the guy. However, he was extremely interesting. His talk was on ‘the tipping point’. Basically everything throughout history has had a tipping point. Anything can seem like a huge task, however, once it reaches the tipping point, it can happen with […]