I came across this nifty CSS trick today on Pooliestudios.com that adds an icon to the end of a link to let you know what sort of link it represents. For instance, if you link to a PDF file, a small adobe PDF icon will appear at the end of the link. Or, lets say [...]
December 13th, 2007 | Jeffro | 2 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "links"
URLAO Another Pretty URL Shortener
I know what you’re thinking. We have enough URL shortener’s already, right? Despite that fact, URLAO has come along looking to introduce some new features into the mix. urlao pronounced (”earlao“), is a project that was created by pooliestudios.
Under The Hood:
urlao works like any other url shortener service. They give you a box to place [...]
Blogs - A Lifestream Of Links
It wasn’t too long ago when my poll asking if blogging was dying concluded with an astounding NO. BookTwo.org recently published an article highlighting a change that is taking place within the blogosphere.
I’ve noticed a trend in longtime bloggers, which I’m certainly a part of. Blogging less, linking more, generally winding down the straight blog [...]
How To Create A Link Blog
For those that haven’t noticed, I have added my own personal LinkRoll or LinkBlog to the left hand sidebar of this site. This link blog can be subscribed to independently of the blog and will contain links that I find interesting that I come across within my feed reader. I have created this tutorial which [...]
November 6th, 2007 | Jeffro | 5 comments | ContinuedThe Truth Behind The Digg Effect
Chris Brogan, a social media maven, has published an article on his blog that goes into detail about his experience with the so called “Digg Effect“. Chris provides a visualization which shows the surge in traffic he received when he reached the Digg front page. What happened as a result? According to Chris, NOTHING. His [...]
September 25th, 2007 | Jeffro | 9 comments | ContinuedMyBlogLog Buzz Tracker Explained
The What’s Hot In My Communities section of your MyBlogLog Profile is an easy way to track buzz worthy info but, how does MBL decide what’s hot and what’s not?
Simply put, the links you see within this area of your user profile represent the most popular links within YOUR MYBLOGLOG COMMUNITIES. If you are seeing [...]
Thanks mGarrett For The Link Love
I just wanted to take this oppurtunity to thank mGarret for linking up to this site. Michael Garret is a contributing editor for Profy.com, a web 2.0 focused blog that seems to be gaining in popularity everyday. Michael is also the Senior Guide for Mahalo, a human powered search engine. As you can already tell, [...]
August 28th, 2007 | Jeffro | 5 comments | Continued10Links Consumes SPAM Sandwich
10Links.net the site I reviewed a few days ago has temporarily gone under because of the vast amount of spam that was getting into their site queue. This is easily understandable considering their submission form, at the very least, didn’t provide a CAPTCHA image to ensure that human beings were the ones submitting websites.
10Links.net has [...]
My Experience With 10Links
My first shot at using 10Links happened on Friday evening. While I was participating in a late night podcast on Talkshoe called Techbytes, I opened up a browser window and loaded up the 10Links submission page. I told others in the podcast about the opportunity to self promote their site and or blog by [...]
July 30th, 2007 | Jeffro | 0 comments | Continued10 Links Till Midnight
How Does It Work?
10Links.Net is powered by a simple idea. A front page with 10 links on it, one of which could be yours. Every day at 12 AM CST users submit there sites as fast as possible to 10links.net and the first 10 legitimate links that make it into their system are the ones [...]