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Plaxo Releases Improved Social Address Book
It’s still the best when it comes to importing contacts from other address books such as Gmail, Yahoo and Outlook. Plaxo , the contact synchronization service that we’ve covered previously , has released a much-improved version of its address book, the bread and butter of the app. The first thing you’ll notice is the speed.
Web Worker Daily
- Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Weds. Signal
Yahoo CEO Eyes TV Ads, Acquisitions (GigaOm, Yahoo earnings spin: We compete with TV, not search!)
A brief Signal today till I can write later in the day, running to an early meeting:
20 Metrics To Effectively Track Social Media Campaigns (SEL)
Supreme Court's Devastating Decision | Ronald Dworkin | NYRB | 26 January 2010 (Off topic, but I found this take interesting)
John Battelle's Searchblog
- Wednesday, January 27, 2010
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Yahoo OneConnect Brings Free SMS to Your iPhone
iPhone/iPod touch only: Yahoo OneConnect is a free application that brings a handful of communication and social networking tools to your iPhone or iPod touch. Off the bat, the most notable thing about OneConnect is that it supports sending SMS messages to contacts in your Yahoo Address Book (provided you have a phone number in their contact card). Oh yeah, it works with Yahoo Messenger contacts, too.) That means you can text all day long from your iPhone (or iPod touch, if you have a Wi-Fi connection) without taking any texts away from your meager AT&T SMS plan. The app's Pulse feature also supports a ton of social networking sites, from Facebook and Flickr to MySpace and Twitter. (Oh
Linked Intelligence
- Wednesday, September 10, 2008
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Yahoo Calendar Beta on Track to Challenge Google Cal
Tester invites started going out to the dramatically-overhauled new Yahoo Calendar beta, and we were one of the lucky ones to give it a spin. As Webware reports , the YCal beta is based on Zimbra, the open source email, contacts, and calendaring solution Yahoo acquired last year. The beta isn't complete yet; if you do get chosen to check it out you'll get a list of what you'll give up by using the beta (including syncing capabilities, The new look and feel brings YCal into 2008 (finally!) with a dynamic interface including drag and drop events, Flickr integration, multiple calendar
Linked Intelligence
- Friday, October 10, 2008
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Filter Your RSS Feeds with Yahoo Pipes
My favorite filtering techniques involve Yahoo Pipes , which looks and sounds much more complicated than it is. Jackson West described Yahoo Pipes pretty well when he called them “ hard to grok, but snazzy “; however, Yahoo Pipes doesn’t have to be quite so difficult for people to understand. After using Pipes for while, I gave similar demos to help other friends get started and even recorded a 2 minute introduction to Yahoo Pipes that Celine Roque wrote a great article about how to fine tune your RSS subscriptions and prune them down to the feeds that provide you with the most value.
Web Worker Daily
- Tuesday, December 23, 2008
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"Flickr Bikes" Photo-Map Locales Across the Globe
For their new "Purple Pedals" campaign, Yahoo has dispatched a handful of GPS-enabled bicycles equipped with cameraphones that automatically shoot and upload photos to Flickr to riders in cities all over the world, from San Francisco to New York and soon, to Singapore, Denmark and the U.K.. Check out a slideshow of the bike's photos here: Keep track of more Flickr bikes as they ride around cities near you: Billyburg's Bike (New York, NY) Amit's Bike and FlickrHQ's Bike (San Francisco, CA) Jessamyn's Bike (Bethel, VT) Dogseat's Bike (Jersey City, NJ)
Linked Intelligence
- Monday, September 15, 2008
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50+ Google and Yahoo Search Shortcuts Cheat Sheet
Home About Contact Search Engine Optimization | Search Engine Tools and Downloads 50+ Google and Yahoo Search Shortcuts Cheat Sheet Email Ann Smarty Follow me on Twitter Ann Smarty 04/20/09 19 Comments A shortcut in general is defined as “a route shorter than the usual one.” This post is intended as a comprehensive guide to Google and Yahoo search shortcuts providing a cheat sheet of over 50 shortcuts and comparing
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How To Monitor Online Conversations
Filtering RSS feeds through Yahoo Pipes or other tools is a good way to make sure that your monitoring dashboard contains relevant content and not just a list of blogs to read. use Yahoo Pipes to filter for mentions of my name, my company and efforts that I am involved with across various sites (Twitter, FriendFeed, blogs, Flickr , video sites, etc.) Yahoo Pipes can also be used to combine many Written by Dawn Foster .
Keeping up with online conversations can be a daunting task.
Web Worker Daily
- Tuesday, March 31, 2009
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How to Mine Twitter for Information
While I do use the search engine to type in queries, the real power is in using RSS feeds for searches and running them through Yahoo Pipes for additional filtering. In many cases, I use Yahoo Pipes to loop through a series of keywords from a CSV file to search Twitter for each of those keywords and monitor the results as an RSS feed in my reader. recently did a 2 minute video explaining exactly how to search Written by Dawn Foster .
Last week, I admitted that I am an information junkie , and I wanted to follow up this week with a few tips for feeding your information habit
Web Worker Daily
- Monday, May 11, 2009
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Yahoo Joins Twitter
think Yahoo might see Twitter as a way to get back to the days of Flickr ...making do know Yahoo has cash, which is better than Facebook stock right about now (see this story as to why ).
Yahoo on getting aTwitter accoun And folks keep speculating that Google will buy Twitter (Facebook tried, didn't work out). I
John Battelle's Searchblog
- Friday, February 13, 2009
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Monitor Your Personal Brand Using Search Engine Alerts
Setting Yahoo Alerts . Yahoo Alerts works similarly to Google Alerts. Go to Yahoo Alerts and sign in to your Yahoo user account. Next choose how you want the Yahoo Alerts delivered, and the delivery method (via email, Yahoo Messenger or mobile device). 8221; So do expect some false alerts if you chose to use Google Alerts or Yahoo Alerts. You don’t need an expensive marketing firm, or even a friend who works in marketing, to manage your personal brand online. Some of the most powerful tools for monitoring your brand are the free email
Web Worker Daily
- Friday, July 17, 2009
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Make a Monitoring Dashboard to Track Online Conversations
In addition to the dashboard technology, I use tools like Yahoo Pipes and PostRank to help me find relevant content and filter it down to the pieces that are the most important for my purposes. If you have never used Yahoo Pipes, I have several two-minute Yahoo Pipes video demos that can help you learn what you need to get started.
Tags: Featured How-to (hack, Written by Dawn Foster .
Quite a few people seemed to enjoy last week’s post about How To Monitor Online Conversations , so I thought it would be a good idea to explain how to make a monitoring
Web Worker Daily
- Monday, April 6, 2009
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