Idea: I’d like to have the ability to annotate a webpage natively in Chrome. When i’m done reading the webpage, export the page into a pdf with all the highlights I made in the text and all the marginalia shown next to the related parts of the webpage. Any ideas on how to accomplish …
Imagine if blog comments could connect with IMs. Or IMs to connect with blog comments. What do I mean? It seems like a bit amount of work to go to a blog post, type a comment, and wait for a response. Example: I’m having a conversation with my cousin on his blog post about the …
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When you search for recipes using search engines, how do they they select which ones you’ll see? The New York Times gives a fun ride across how search engines rank recipes, Can Recipe Search Engines Make You a Better Cook?. Some clips: The newer [search engine] models try to evaluate recipes and rank them by …
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Will all sites ultimately become properly optimized for search engines? Web strategist James Ellis writes: While SEO is a critical element in your digital marketing strategy, there will probably come a day some time soon when everyone is properly optimized for search engines. What happens when there’s a level playing field and tricks don’t push …
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From Gluten free to buffalo wings. What are the real trends of 2014? Yesterday we took all 14 food trends from forbes.com and uncovered their real trending stats with Google Trends. Today we aggregate all that data together into one chart. Let’s compare all 12 trends in the past 10 years by taking the ranking …
Forbes released the “12 hottest food trends for 2014“: 1. Local food 2. Vegetarian 3. Healthy kids meals 4. Gluten free 5. Liquid nitrogen ice cream 6. Nuts 7. Artisan pizza 8. Buffalo wings 9. Upscale comfort food 10. Mashup food (cronut, dessert pizza) 11. Umami 12. Bisquits But just how popular are these foods? …
Evernote runs text-recognition on all the images uploaded to their service. This great feature allows you to search through photos taken of notes and printouts. How does Evernote do it? It sounds like a fairy land. I’m using Adobe Acrobat Pro to OCR a batch of 32 PDF files that I scanned on the printer …
Do you use a ton of services at work? As an online marketer I use Apple, Bitly, Google Chrome, Hootsuite, Mailchimp, Twitter, Return Path, Ginger Labs (maker of Notability), and WooThemes. At home I use Feedly, Evernote, Flipboard, Last.fm, Netflix, Dropbox, Toodledo, Adium, Comixology, Delicious, Foursquare, Spotify, and Zite. #takeadeepbreath That’s a lot of services! I like to keep up to date …
Ever get an email notification that someone faved one of your tweets? It’s pretty nice. Now have you ever gotten a notification that someone you follow faved someone else’s tweet? If used sparingly, they can be nice little tips to point out a tweet you never saw. Unfortunately, it seems twitter sends many of these …
Perplexing is that people can read something and not have anything to say. What are the historical and psychology causes? At the dawn of democracy, listening was primarily an active activity. People would debate each other. A statement would be made, the listener would respond. Communication was interpersonal. Peter Kreten states in his first draft …
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All content goes through a life cycle. First content is created. Then people discover the content. People read the content. Finally, people share the content. By sharing the content, it becomes recreated like how a DJ recreates music by making it into a mix. The content is then discovered by other people, consumed, and reshared. …
(Read the rest of the infographic at goodreads.com) Merge social media with books and you get the fantastic site Goodreads.com. If you love books and you aren’t on goodreads yet, what are you waiting for? With 25 million members, Goodreads is THE place online to discover and review books. Every day I love reading my …
2013 was the year of lists. Will 2014 continue the heavy use of lists? Yes, 2014 will bring more lists. Specifically for the masses, there will be more lists in 2014. However, for the more attuned reader, lists will become less popular. Perhaps instead we will see more interdisciplinary articles. Topics that merge various fields …
You probably have a list of blogs in your head that you know you like to visit from time to time. Perhaps you subscribe to their email list or twitter feed. But how often do you actually visit their blog posts? Now you can find out how often you visit particular blogs. A Google Chrome …