Posts Tagged with ‘SheGeeks’

AdSense Comes to RSS

Leslie Poston

Google is still the reigning champion of monetizing the internet. With it's firm hold on the search advertising niche and ever increasing variety of keyword based ad content types, the search giant looks like it will hold the crown for a while. Cementing that theory is today's announcement that its popular Adsense revenue program will now be offered in your RSS feeds, a service that has been touted as "on its way" on the Feedburner site for months.
I can [...]

RSS Day: Interview with RSSmeme Creator Ben Golub

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira

All hail Twitter Local which clued me in that RSSmeme creator Ben Golub actually lives in my own backyard. I planned on waiting until the next Open Coffee Club to grill him, but in honor of RSS Day, I bumped up my plan of attack and he agreed to an interview in honor of the day.
Cyndy: So what prompted you to come up with RSSmeme?
Ben: It's really all thanks to Louis Gray, who hyped Readburner, which is a great [...]

You Never Get a Second Chance at a First Impression

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira

This post really should have a subtitle of “What should you be doing when it comes to customer service?” because it's one of the most crucial ways that a company can screw it up. Mistakes happen, and it's often overwhelming dealing with unhappy or unsatisfied customers. But meeting at least a bare minimum expectation can go a long way toward increasing a user base, and going the extra mile goes even farther.
I can think of several instances where companies have [...]

April Fool’s Day: The Most Annoying Day in Tech

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira

Odds are that any additional articles I write today will be site reviews, because today is my least favorite day of the year as a tech blogger. Beyond my usual schedule of getting Rick rolled at least once a day by someone, I am now stuck with sifting through my feeds trying to determine what's actual news and what's an April Fool's Day prank.
Of course, since this has become a tech blogosophere tradition, many blogs are determined to get out [...]

Cult of Personality: What Has Web 2.0 Done to Journalism?

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira

If you pay any attention at all to the tech blogosphere, you'll notice that there have been several recurrent themes lately. One is the concept of A-listers in any community. While Guy Kawasaki shares the CNET study which feels that information has more of a diamond shape than a pyramid, which information trickling down from the A-listers at the point, Alex Iskold over at ReadWriteWeb notes that the 80-20 rule is in play on Twitter, with 80% of the [...]