I am only getting scraps of time to work on the Community Color sites.
My new Android Phone will play videos directly. The URL for my test video showing the start of the Salt Lake Marathon is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehU1rfv9Ssw.
When I click the URL in a regular browser, the browser displays a web page with the video. When I click it on my phone, the phone starts playing the video. Google is magic!
So, for the mobile version of CommunityColor, I realized I could just grab the video URLs that I've embedded in the main site and quickly create a fun little index of community videos.
To see project: Go to m.CommunityColor.com/yt.php?btn=sum. This page shows a summary of videos by town. Click a town name and see locally produced videos on YouTube.
NOTE: I had a number of campaign videos. I decided not to include them because the election is over ... however, I will add future campaign videos to this list.
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Mobile Pages
Wow, it takes a lot of work to make little pages.
I am busily working away on the mobile version of Community Color.
I decided I needed to add some "content pages" to feed the web bots from the search engines. My idea of content super simply pages that introduced the community.
Here is a sample page for Colorado National Monument ... which will celebrate its centennial this year.
To help the search engines find the mobi sites, I am daisy chaining the content site.
I wrote a half dozen content pages and decided to tweet about them using the mlnk.us URL shortener ... and realized I made a grave mistake.
My new URL shortener has slots for the HTML and MOBI version of a page ... but I had one HTML page and six MOBI pages I wanted to tweet about.
I could have made a short URL for each of the new sites. I would then issue six tweets for each of the pages.
I decides that was too spammy. So, I redesigned MLNK.us to allow for up to 100 URLS.
This short URL for this project is mlnk.us/pages. The short URL has links back to this blog post and the seven about pages I created.
I am busily working away on the mobile version of Community Color.
I decided I needed to add some "content pages" to feed the web bots from the search engines. My idea of content super simply pages that introduced the community.
Here is a sample page for Colorado National Monument ... which will celebrate its centennial this year.
To help the search engines find the mobi sites, I am daisy chaining the content site.
I wrote a half dozen content pages and decided to tweet about them using the mlnk.us URL shortener ... and realized I made a grave mistake.
My new URL shortener has slots for the HTML and MOBI version of a page ... but I had one HTML page and six MOBI pages I wanted to tweet about.
I could have made a short URL for each of the new sites. I would then issue six tweets for each of the pages.
I decides that was too spammy. So, I redesigned MLNK.us to allow for up to 100 URLS.
This short URL for this project is mlnk.us/pages. The short URL has links back to this blog post and the seven about pages I created.
Friday, January 21, 2011
Tweet Your Link
While on the topic of mobile phones ....
I find filling out forms on my phone too tedious.
Scatching my head, I wanted to find a way for smartphone users to give me the link to their web site. To make the process easy, a "Tweet me your link" page to the Community Color mobile directories.
Here is the Grand Junction Tweet Your Link Page.
The page has the link:
Hey @CommunityColor You should add the site _____ to http://gjct.com
The link produces a tweet with my twitter account and a link to my site. It is so fiendish!
If peoplefell for this gimmick used this process, then I would learn about their site and maybe get some inbound links.
I find filling out forms on my phone too tedious.
Scatching my head, I wanted to find a way for smartphone users to give me the link to their web site. To make the process easy, a "Tweet me your link" page to the Community Color mobile directories.
Here is the Grand Junction Tweet Your Link Page.
The page has the link:
Hey @CommunityColor You should add the site _____ to http://gjct.com
The link produces a tweet with my twitter account and a link to my site. It is so fiendish!
If people
SEO & MOBI
A MOBI page is a page optimized for mobile phones. Since the pages will be displayed on tiny screens, the pages need to present tightly summarized information and they need to emphasize the navigational elements of the page.
It is wise to have links back to the main HTML site just in case a person with a real web browser stumbles onto a mobi page and wants to access the web optimized page.
This combination of summarized content and robust linking structure means that MOBI development offers a great opportunity for Search Engine Optimization.
From the SEO perspective, a mobile page is a small page filled with keywords and links back to the main site. It's a cheap way of building inbound links.
Best of all, building a mobile site is white hat seo marketing. The mobi developer isn't just creating pages for keywords. The mobi developer is creating pages to fit the unique needs of the smart phone market.
I started this MOBI project after using mobile.twitter.com on a smartphone. I found jumping from twitter to my blog was a bad user experience.
The Mobile Link allows me to put a mobile optimized page between twitter and my content. Using mlnk.us as the URL shortener will give smartphone users a chance to go to the mobi optimized page or to the full blown version.
There is one big hassle involved in this project. Because I now need to create two pages for each content page, I am forced to do a little dance where I jump between screens creating content on two web sites.
Here's the Mobi summary of this page. When that is done, I need to create the mlnk.us page. This is a difficult dance as I do not know the URLs until after I save the pages.
It is wise to have links back to the main HTML site just in case a person with a real web browser stumbles onto a mobi page and wants to access the web optimized page.
This combination of summarized content and robust linking structure means that MOBI development offers a great opportunity for Search Engine Optimization.
From the SEO perspective, a mobile page is a small page filled with keywords and links back to the main site. It's a cheap way of building inbound links.
Best of all, building a mobile site is white hat seo marketing. The mobi developer isn't just creating pages for keywords. The mobi developer is creating pages to fit the unique needs of the smart phone market.
I started this MOBI project after using mobile.twitter.com on a smartphone. I found jumping from twitter to my blog was a bad user experience.
The Mobile Link allows me to put a mobile optimized page between twitter and my content. Using mlnk.us as the URL shortener will give smartphone users a chance to go to the mobi optimized page or to the full blown version.
There is one big hassle involved in this project. Because I now need to create two pages for each content page, I am forced to do a little dance where I jump between screens creating content on two web sites.
Here's the Mobi summary of this page. When that is done, I need to create the mlnk.us page. This is a difficult dance as I do not know the URLs until after I save the pages.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
mlnk program
I am happy to announce a new domain in the Community Color family. I bought the domain mlnk.us for use as a URL shortener.
I intend to create a URL shortener with a twist.
As mentioned in previous posts, I bought a smartphone and started working on a mobile version of Community Color. I intend to create mobile versions of other sites.
The mobile versions will mirror the full HTML versions of the sites.
When I add content to a site, it will show up on both an HTML page and a mobile page!
The typical URL shortener redirects a user to a destination web page. The mlnk.us URL shortener will present a MOBI optimized page with links to both the HTML and Mobile page.
This design will make web browsing more pleasant for people twittering away their day on a smartphone (or people twittering in a small window).
Step one was to buy the domain. Step two is to design the site. Speaking of design, I decided to give my mobile pages a different background.
PS, I wrote this post before writing the program, so that I will have something to link to.
I intend to create a URL shortener with a twist.
As mentioned in previous posts, I bought a smartphone and started working on a mobile version of Community Color. I intend to create mobile versions of other sites.
The mobile versions will mirror the full HTML versions of the sites.
When I add content to a site, it will show up on both an HTML page and a mobile page!
The typical URL shortener redirects a user to a destination web page. The mlnk.us URL shortener will present a MOBI optimized page with links to both the HTML and Mobile page.
This design will make web browsing more pleasant for people twittering away their day on a smartphone (or people twittering in a small window).
Step one was to buy the domain. Step two is to design the site. Speaking of design, I decided to give my mobile pages a different background.
PS, I wrote this post before writing the program, so that I will have something to link to.
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Moving the Mobile Sites
I am working on creating a mobile version of the community color web sites.
Ideally, the mobile version of a site should be in a different subdomain. My original contract with my webhost did not allow sufficient subdomains; so, I was developing the mobi in the same domain as the rest of the site.
I checked my site. It now is allowing more subdomains; So, I am moving the mobile sites. Google put its mobile version on a site with the URL m.google.com.
A single M to denote mobile is good enough for me; so, I created an m version of each of the sites, eg m.ProvoUtah.US.
Ideally, the mobile version of a site should be in a different subdomain. My original contract with my webhost did not allow sufficient subdomains; so, I was developing the mobi in the same domain as the rest of the site.
I checked my site. It now is allowing more subdomains; So, I am moving the mobile sites. Google put its mobile version on a site with the URL m.google.com.
A single M to denote mobile is good enough for me; so, I created an m version of each of the sites, eg m.ProvoUtah.US.
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Mobile Directories
I'll be hitting the road soon; So, I bought a mobile phone with Internet access.
My plan was to use the phone to help me develop a mobi optimized version version of the Community Color directories.
I started this project using an online mobi simulator. The simulator restricted me to only a few page views and did not show errors. So the program did not work.
The Mobi versions of the sites are accessed with the mobi.php. For example, the Denver mobi page is: DenverColor.com/mobi.php. NOTE, the very first link on the HTML version of the site goes to the mobi optimized page.
Now, that I have a phone, I can add other Mobi optimized features.
My plan was to use the phone to help me develop a mobi optimized version version of the Community Color directories.
I started this project using an online mobi simulator. The simulator restricted me to only a few page views and did not show errors. So the program did not work.
The Mobi versions of the sites are accessed with the mobi.php. For example, the Denver mobi page is: DenverColor.com/mobi.php. NOTE, the very first link on the HTML version of the site goes to the mobi optimized page.
Now, that I have a phone, I can add other Mobi optimized features.
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Store of the Day Index
I created an index to the store of the day program. I created the Store of the Day as an effort to fund open community calendars (eg, Salt Lake or Denver Color).
Rather than putting a ton of ads on the calendar, I can have automatic links to the Store of the Day. A store of the day feature also lets me have an active rss feed for the directory.
This system does not give me enough money to hire a minimum wage clerk to maintain a calendar, but it pays for hosting. Lets see, there's currently 469 stores in the Store of the Day rotation. The system shows 324,567 page views on this feature since 2004.
At current ad rates, one is lucky to make a dollar per thousand page views. Since these are ultra targetted ads, I am probably making $5 per thousand page views.
An extra index for the feed might increase the traffic.
Sadly, this is the closest I've come to creating a working profit center for a web site.
Rather than putting a ton of ads on the calendar, I can have automatic links to the Store of the Day. A store of the day feature also lets me have an active rss feed for the directory.
This system does not give me enough money to hire a minimum wage clerk to maintain a calendar, but it pays for hosting. Lets see, there's currently 469 stores in the Store of the Day rotation. The system shows 324,567 page views on this feature since 2004.
At current ad rates, one is lucky to make a dollar per thousand page views. Since these are ultra targetted ads, I am probably making $5 per thousand page views.
An extra index for the feed might increase the traffic.
Sadly, this is the closest I've come to creating a working profit center for a web site.
Sunday, August 01, 2010
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Crocs with No Socks
Trying to reduce my carbon footprint, I've taken to wearing Crocs with no socks.
The nice thing about Crocs shoes is that they are waterproof and washable. I wash my Crocs in the garden with a hose.
This saves the wear and tear and socks and reduces the number of washing loads by a tiny fraction.
The down side to washing Crocs in the native plant garden is that the Pussytoes now have a wicked case of athletes' foot.
Crocs are made in Boulder. The only real complaint with Crocs is that they don't have wide shoes, so I bought a size too large.
Crocs currently has a stackable coupon: Take 10% off at Crocs.com with code CROSLITE10 now thru end of day Wednesday and nonstackable: Take 20% off at Crocs.com with code SUMMERLUV20 now thru end of day Wednesday.
This saves the wear and tear and socks and reduces the number of washing loads by a tiny fraction.
The down side to washing Crocs in the native plant garden is that the Pussytoes now have a wicked case of athletes' foot.
Crocs are made in Boulder. The only real complaint with Crocs is that they don't have wide shoes, so I bought a size too large.
Crocs currently has a stackable coupon: Take 10% off at Crocs.com with code CROSLITE10 now thru end of day Wednesday and nonstackable: Take 20% off at Crocs.com with code SUMMERLUV20 now thru end of day Wednesday.
Wednesday, April 07, 2010
Twitter Users
NOTE to Twitter users: If you would like a link in the Community Color directories, but don't want the hassle of joining the site, simply follow either of the accounts CommunityColor or yintercept. If there is a relevant website in your profile, I will follow it.
As for the accounts: CommunityColor has updates to the CommunityColor program. yintercept is filled with philosophical musings and Libertarian style rants about national and international politics.
I am only interested in listing local sites:
The goal of Community Color directories is to help promote local web development. These directories are interested in sites from the Mountain West (Utah, Colorado, Wyoming and Missoula, Mt)
When a person joins me, I look at their location. If they are from one of the communities served, I then add the link in their profile. I also add links from any of the sites recent posts ... if they are of interest to the community.
Note: I also follow my Twitter DMs. So you can DM me a link. If it is related to the communities served, I will list the site.
If you want a link in the directory, but don't want the hassles of joining the site, just follow me ... yintercept.
As for the accounts: CommunityColor has updates to the CommunityColor program. yintercept is filled with philosophical musings and Libertarian style rants about national and international politics.
I am only interested in listing local sites:
The goal of Community Color directories is to help promote local web development. These directories are interested in sites from the Mountain West (Utah, Colorado, Wyoming and Missoula, Mt)
When a person joins me, I look at their location. If they are from one of the communities served, I then add the link in their profile. I also add links from any of the sites recent posts ... if they are of interest to the community.
Note: I also follow my Twitter DMs. So you can DM me a link. If it is related to the communities served, I will list the site.
If you want a link in the directory, but don't want the hassles of joining the site, just follow me ... yintercept.
Monday, February 22, 2010
Fire Suppression Mishap
My webhost shows the following message:
The Community Color web sites were sparodic during the weekend and went completely dead Sunday night. Hopefully, they will come back to life soon.
On Saturday, February 20 2010, at approximately 2:20 p.m. MST during an annual fire system inspection of our data center the fire suppression system was inadvertently triggered and discharged into the data center environment. The discharge of the fire system has affected the hardware and operations of our servers. Not all servers have been affected by the discharge. We are working to restore servers and services as quickly as possible. Due to the nature of this interruption we will be experiencing extended outages.
The Community Color web sites were sparodic during the weekend and went completely dead Sunday night. Hopefully, they will come back to life soon.
Friday, February 12, 2010
IRS Fraud Site
Hmmm, this is odd. While updating my list of tax related web sites, I stumbled on a site called "irs-fraud.com" which invites people to blow the whistle on tax cheats.
Domain Tools tells me that the site is located in the Antigua Tower in Panama, Panama.
That a tax-fraud reporting site is located in an internaional tax haven is itself quite telling.
You can report tax fraud simply by filling out an IRS form. The IRS site says you need to ship the form to Fresno, Ca.
Hmmm, Fresno is about as bad as any third world nation when it comes to online fraud. I decided not to list this site.
I've actually come across quite a few tax related sites with no address and that use a proxy server to protect the site's owners. I would never give my identity to such a site.
Domain Tools tells me that the site is located in the Antigua Tower in Panama, Panama.
That a tax-fraud reporting site is located in an internaional tax haven is itself quite telling.
You can report tax fraud simply by filling out an IRS form. The IRS site says you need to ship the form to Fresno, Ca.
Hmmm, Fresno is about as bad as any third world nation when it comes to online fraud. I decided not to list this site.
I've actually come across quite a few tax related sites with no address and that use a proxy server to protect the site's owners. I would never give my identity to such a site.
Thursday, January 07, 2010
Poster Stores
My Stats show the community color web sites pulled in twelve hundred bucks in the fourth quarter of 09. It is up from the previous year. The sites make about the tenth of what I would need to make one minimum wage job.
I did a great deal of work during the year replacing failing online merchants with new merchants.
I decided to concentrate on merchants offering widgets. A widget is a program that updates automatically with current inventory.
For example, I've been working on All Posters stores. I like the AllPosters.com program because the widgets add some content (pictures) with the possibility of making revenue. The Poster Store for Moab shows images of arches ... a visually pleasing subject.
The revenue has been scant. I've earned $15.00 for 1000 clickthrus so far. It takes about 100,000 page views to get 1000 clicks. So far, I've yet to find a niche on the Internet that is not marginal.
I did a great deal of work during the year replacing failing online merchants with new merchants.
I decided to concentrate on merchants offering widgets. A widget is a program that updates automatically with current inventory.
For example, I've been working on All Posters stores. I like the AllPosters.com program because the widgets add some content (pictures) with the possibility of making revenue. The Poster Store for Moab shows images of arches ... a visually pleasing subject.
The revenue has been scant. I've earned $15.00 for 1000 clickthrus so far. It takes about 100,000 page views to get 1000 clicks. So far, I've yet to find a niche on the Internet that is not marginal.
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Seven Million Hit Mark
The offcials stats page shows the Community Color directory page just passed the seven million hit mark. In actuality, I crossed this line a month ago. The program deletes the stats for a page when I delete the page.
Hitwise, we find Salt Lake City is approaching the 3 million hit mark. Provo is near the three quarter of a million hit mark. The newer Colorado directories are moving along as well. Denver approaches the half million hit mark with both Colorado Springs and Boulder at the 100,000 hit mark.
Internal pages are hopping along. There's been 180,000 views on the venue pages, and 1.5 million hits on the review pages. These figures are low as I delete the hit counters when I delete the pages.
Currently there's 20,000 links in the directory. I have deleted 6,000 old and broken links. About a quarter of the web sites listed have gone dark since starting the directory.
Hitwise, we find Salt Lake City is approaching the 3 million hit mark. Provo is near the three quarter of a million hit mark. The newer Colorado directories are moving along as well. Denver approaches the half million hit mark with both Colorado Springs and Boulder at the 100,000 hit mark.
Internal pages are hopping along. There's been 180,000 views on the venue pages, and 1.5 million hits on the review pages. These figures are low as I delete the hit counters when I delete the pages.
Currently there's 20,000 links in the directory. I have deleted 6,000 old and broken links. About a quarter of the web sites listed have gone dark since starting the directory.
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Regulating the Internet
It looks like the heady days of the Internet is coming to an end. The new adminstration plans for regulating the web. The first target of the FTC is "Internet Endorsements."
Apparently, one of the dirty practices of the Internet is that tech firm developing a new product might do something underhanded like give bloggers a beta copy of the product. The blogger will then test the product and write a blog about the test. The blog post might include a link to the manufacturer.
A site writing book reviews might receive a free copy of a book from an author or publisher. The reviewer will read the book and write the review ... benefitting from having a free copy of a book.
Dirty practices, like beta testing products, are done by evil corporations in a concerted effort to build hype for a product.
The new regulatory regime wishes to stop this evil practice by demanding that bloggers clearly state any benefit they might receive for writing a blog post or otherwise listing a link.
The FTC plans to go after corporations engaged in dark practices (like beta testing) and slap them with a hefty $10,000 fine.
According to the FTC, bloggers can be safe if they simply write in each of their blog posts any benefit they receive from the post.
This new regulatory regime makes me sad, as I think bloggers should benefit from their actions. Personally, I never faulted anyone for being paid for their writing.
I have not received any free products for blogging. However, I am engaged in another dark practice of the internet called Affiliate Marketing.
[gasp]
The goal of the Community Color project project is to promote community-centric web development. What I do is list all of the web sites I can find find for a community in the Mountain West. For example, Boulder Color lists web sites and blogs from Boulder, Colorado.
Whenever I find a site with an affiliate program, I join the affiliate program and list the affiliate link. An affiliate program pays commissions on sales.
This evil practice means that there is a possibility of my benefitting from sending traffic to the site. I don't benefit much ... I barely cover the cost of hosting, but it is a benefit, and (if you follow leftist thought) any benefit received for work is evil.
Several of the sites in the Community Color program have a web browsing blog. These programs will periodically highlight a site. The Salt Lake Site has 925 such reviews. About 35 of the sites reviewed have evil affiliate programs.
I always had multiple disclaimers on the site to help people differentiate from affiliate listings and free listings. I spent the day strengthening the disclaimer and thinking dark thoughts about the FTC and the stupidity of their new ruling.
Looking through the book reviews in the newspaper ... they don't say if they received a free copy of the book. The restaurant reviews don't say if the reviewer received a free meal or extra treat for being a reviewer ... when we know perfectly well that companies send free products to media outlets for review.
I have not received any free products for review, but I have purchased CDs and books from other media concerns that did receive free products.
I've watched the video from Mary Engel several times trying to figure out how to stay in compliance with the regulatory regime, and feeling absolutely sick to my stomach that the administrations is going to start going after bloggers for engaging in practices that are common among the newspaper and publishing industry.
Apparently, one of the dirty practices of the Internet is that tech firm developing a new product might do something underhanded like give bloggers a beta copy of the product. The blogger will then test the product and write a blog about the test. The blog post might include a link to the manufacturer.
A site writing book reviews might receive a free copy of a book from an author or publisher. The reviewer will read the book and write the review ... benefitting from having a free copy of a book.
Dirty practices, like beta testing products, are done by evil corporations in a concerted effort to build hype for a product.
The new regulatory regime wishes to stop this evil practice by demanding that bloggers clearly state any benefit they might receive for writing a blog post or otherwise listing a link.
The FTC plans to go after corporations engaged in dark practices (like beta testing) and slap them with a hefty $10,000 fine.
According to the FTC, bloggers can be safe if they simply write in each of their blog posts any benefit they receive from the post.
This new regulatory regime makes me sad, as I think bloggers should benefit from their actions. Personally, I never faulted anyone for being paid for their writing.
I have not received any free products for blogging. However, I am engaged in another dark practice of the internet called Affiliate Marketing.
[gasp]
The goal of the Community Color project project is to promote community-centric web development. What I do is list all of the web sites I can find find for a community in the Mountain West. For example, Boulder Color lists web sites and blogs from Boulder, Colorado.
Whenever I find a site with an affiliate program, I join the affiliate program and list the affiliate link. An affiliate program pays commissions on sales.
This evil practice means that there is a possibility of my benefitting from sending traffic to the site. I don't benefit much ... I barely cover the cost of hosting, but it is a benefit, and (if you follow leftist thought) any benefit received for work is evil.
Several of the sites in the Community Color program have a web browsing blog. These programs will periodically highlight a site. The Salt Lake Site has 925 such reviews. About 35 of the sites reviewed have evil affiliate programs.
I always had multiple disclaimers on the site to help people differentiate from affiliate listings and free listings. I spent the day strengthening the disclaimer and thinking dark thoughts about the FTC and the stupidity of their new ruling.
Looking through the book reviews in the newspaper ... they don't say if they received a free copy of the book. The restaurant reviews don't say if the reviewer received a free meal or extra treat for being a reviewer ... when we know perfectly well that companies send free products to media outlets for review.
I have not received any free products for review, but I have purchased CDs and books from other media concerns that did receive free products.
I've watched the video from Mary Engel several times trying to figure out how to stay in compliance with the regulatory regime, and feeling absolutely sick to my stomach that the administrations is going to start going after bloggers for engaging in practices that are common among the newspaper and publishing industry.
Friday, November 27, 2009
Happy Black Friday
I've been working myself ragged tossing up coupons and sale notices for Black Friday. I usually don't have much web traffic on Black Friday. The biggest time for online sales is December 10th, which is pretty much the latest you can order stuff and expect it by Christmas.
You can find the sales links on the page: aFountainOfBargains.com. The sales support the site CommunityColor.com. CC is stuck in a rut, to add more functionality, I need to move to a different server which is currently out of my budget. Strong Xmas sales might turn that around.
You can find the sales links on the page: aFountainOfBargains.com. The sales support the site CommunityColor.com. CC is stuck in a rut, to add more functionality, I need to move to a different server which is currently out of my budget. Strong Xmas sales might turn that around.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Halloween Links
I spent several hours updating the Salt Lake Halloween page and the Denver Halloween page.
Realizing the people will travel for a good maze or haunted house, the Salt Lake page lists attractions all along the Wasatch Front. The Denver Page lists attractions along the Front Range.
The directories are the most complete source for Halloween in these markets ... because I unabashedly included all the links I could find on the other Halloween directories.
Realizing the people will travel for a good maze or haunted house, the Salt Lake page lists attractions all along the Wasatch Front. The Denver Page lists attractions along the Front Range.
The directories are the most complete source for Halloween in these markets ... because I unabashedly included all the links I could find on the other Halloween directories.
Saturday, October 03, 2009
Twitter Tip
I just did an experiement: The site Bit.ly makes short urls. For example, the string http://bit.ly/mcSRz leads straight back here.
You can paste the stort string in a twitter post. Twitter will make the shortened URL hot.
Twitter makes any string beginning with www. hot. If you replace the "http://" with "www."
http://bit.ly/mcSRz
www.bit.ly/mcSRz
The new link seems to work and you save three characters ... which is important in a world limited to 140 characters.
PS: I am not with bit.ly and can not guarantee that this hack will work forever. (Back to twitter (twitter links).
You can paste the stort string in a twitter post. Twitter will make the shortened URL hot.
Twitter makes any string beginning with www. hot. If you replace the "http://" with "www."
http://bit.ly/mcSRz
www.bit.ly/mcSRz
The new link seems to work and you save three characters ... which is important in a world limited to 140 characters.
PS: I am not with bit.ly and can not guarantee that this hack will work forever. (Back to twitter (twitter links).
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Sharing Videos
I discovered a fun site called UtahBizTube.com which hosts YouTube style videos from Utah. The site allows videographers and production studios from the area to upload their work.
The site is focusing on creating business and product profiles for Utab businesses. They have a few personal videos in the mix.
UtahBizTube is the type of site that can truly ignite the local design community as it provides both an opportunity for the local design community to show their works and for businesses to introduce their wares. I am hoping that this business proves a success.
Needless to say, I will be taking full advantage of this site and have taken to posting their videos on the sites in the CommunityColor.com family. I made a page to index the videos as I embed them in my site.
The site is focusing on creating business and product profiles for Utab businesses. They have a few personal videos in the mix.
UtahBizTube is the type of site that can truly ignite the local design community as it provides both an opportunity for the local design community to show their works and for businesses to introduce their wares. I am hoping that this business proves a success.
Needless to say, I will be taking full advantage of this site and have taken to posting their videos on the sites in the CommunityColor.com family. I made a page to index the videos as I embed them in my site.
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