YouTube - FISH. OIL -- A year after the BP oil spill, fish are biting on Louisiana's gulf coast

YouTube - FISH. OIL -- A year after the BP oil spill, fish are biting on Louisiana's gulf coast: "Uploaded by NorthAmericanFishing on Apr 28, 2011
A year after the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, NAFC Social Media Editor Greg Huff travels to Louisiana's gulf coast to check on the health of the fishery in the state long known as The Sportsman's Paradise. (Pt. 1 in a series)



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YouTube - President Obama with Stephen Colbert

YouTube - President Obama with Stephen Colbert: "so what? The president doesn't run the Congress.
David12King 2 hours ago in playlist Stephen Colbert & whose line is it anyways
wow Obama has done so much..just looked up the bills he passed and compared it to all the other congress' before..dont even come close. Go Mr. President, go!
LordKaisen 4 hours ago
Wow, 'I am America (and so can you)' was ON THE PRESIDENT'S BOOKSHELF! How prestigious!
rainethesage 4 hours ago
@Zenniiii
I didn't say Bush was any better, but Obama did the exact same thing that Bush did he threw money he didn't have at a problem that needed more then just green."

How Social Media Is Impacting Search With Rand Fishkin [@InboundNow #22]

How Social Media Is Impacting Search With Rand Fishkin [@InboundNow #22]: "Google +1 Button vs. Facebook 'Likes'

'You can do either/or, or both. But I think the thing about liking a page on Facebook is it does nothing for me.'

While clicking 'like' shows you're sharing good stuff with your friends, there's really no takeaway. With the Google +1 Button the takeaway is better, more useful search results.

Where to Start With Link Building

'I think some of the easiest ways right now are social ways.'

When just starting out, begin with the low-hanging fruit.

Connect with people on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Keep tabs on your keywords on those sites, and reply with a helpful comment.

Answer relevant questions on Q&A sites like Yahoo! Answers, Quora, Facebook Answers, LinkedIn Answers, Formspring, and ChaCha.

Another place to start? Leverage existing relationships. Offer to contribute testimonials for partners with a link back to your website. Give your customers easy ways to link back to you (e.g. website badges, social media buttons, etc)."

How Social Media Is Impacting Search With Rand Fishkin [@InboundNow #22]

How Social Media Is Impacting Search With Rand Fishkin [@InboundNow #22]: "'If lots of people start seeing those, lots of people are opting into that, we're going to see just a ton more search rankings influenced by what our friends are sharing and saying.'

Social media is impacting search in two ways: direct impact and latent social influence.

Facebook and Twitter both sell data to Google and Bing, and that data is then included in search algorithms. They use the number of times something has been shared on Facebook, who tweeted something, how many times something was tweeted, etc. to calculate content authority (How important is this article that was tweeted a ton of times?) and author authority (How important is this person who tweeted it?). This is the direct impact."

How to Significantly Improve Your Blog Alexa Rank

How to Significantly Improve Your Blog Alexa Rank: "Another reason why it is very important to get quality traffic to your blog is because Alexa doesn’t just count visits to your blog but also page views and how much time each visitors spend on your site; and the only way to make sure your visitors stay to spend more time is by providing quality content and getting quality traffic. That is why you will see a lot of people saying they get a lot of traffic but a low alexa rank; if you’re experiencing this try to observe where most of your visitors come from and how much time they spend on your blog, you will notice this also has a huge impact."

From zero visitors to 25000 in 15 months

From zero visitors to 25000 in 15 months: "Sarah is one of those amazing people who when they have an original great idea actually do the research , the hard graft and cajoling which make things happen.

Sarah created Birds on the Blog and invited several friends to join her in the enterprise. In the beginning friends pitched in with regular blogs on set days , blogging on topics from their own viewpoint.

As Birds became known for original and quality content , the sites reputation grew and more of Sarah’s friends joined in to contribute blogs .

The number of blogs published grew , slowly at first and then as the sites reputation grew , the number of contributors expanded rapidly"

Huntsman: 49 million-year-old fossilised spider recreated using 3D imaging technology | Mail Online

Huntsman: 49 million-year-old fossilised spider recreated using 3D imaging technology | Mail Online: "Brush away the cobwebs: 49 million-year-old spider fossilised in amber recreated using 3D imaging technology
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This astonishing image is the face of a 49million-year-old spider preserved in amber.

Researchers were previously unable to determine exactly what species the spider was, as the amber which it is preserved in has darkened and cracked over the years."

Obama to Push Economic Development to Aid Democracy Movements - Businessweek

Obama to Push Economic Development to Aid Democracy Movements - Businessweek: "$1 billion in loan guarantees through the Overseas Private Investment Corporation and cancellation of $1 billion in debt, about a third of what Egypt owes the U.S. An additional several billion dollars’ worth of financing for Egypt and Tunisia would come from multilateral development banks, the officials said, without providing details.

The new proposal is on top of the $2 billion that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in March pledged through OPIC for the region."

Japanese Stocks Decline as Economy Shrinks More Than Forecast - Businessweek

Japanese Stocks Decline as Economy Shrinks More Than Forecast - Businessweek: "Japan’s largest bank by market value, declined 2.1 percent. Tokyo Electric Power Co., the operator of the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant damaged in the record earthquake in March, tumbled 8 percent. Dainippon Screen Manufacturing Co., a chip equipment maker, plunged 5.3 percent after Goldman Sachs Group Inc. cut its rating on chipmaker Intel Corp."

iTunes Pan-EU Label Relations Manager Position Vacancy on Spotify’s Territory | hunto.com - Funniest Videos

iTunes Pan-EU Label Relations Manager Position Vacancy on Spotify’s Territory | hunto.com - Funniest Videos: "Spotify and its world of music is currently ramping up in terms of user registrations. Being in the same paradigm, then these two streaming media sources will surely go head-to-head and in the end, it is all about the consumer benefits. That is what’s good when there is competition around.

iTunes being with the same party with iPhone can take it as their advantage but it sometimes hard to outrun who got their feet set on first."

How Spotify Works

How Spotify Works: "Spotify takes a new approach to music streaming on the desktop and mobile. Users can stream from a library of millions of songs, purchase tracks, and store playlists on Android or iPhone.

And with it's latest update allowing you to sync to iPods, Spotify could be a replacement for iTunes altogether."

The world awaits, what will the people at Mac-World do about this!-SandCloud

IMF chief imagined a false rape allegation in April interview - CNN.com

IMF chief imagined a false rape allegation in April interview - CNN.com: "International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn discussed the possibility of a woman falsely claiming he attacked her.
In an interview April 28 with the French daily newspaper Liberation, Strauss-Kahn imagined 'a woman who would be raped in a parking lot and who would then be promised 500,000 or a million euros to invent such a story,' the paper reported in an article published Monday, two days after a hotel housekeeping employee said he sexually assaulted her."

Yale opens up image library, starts with 250,000 free images - Boing Boing

Yale opens up image library, starts with 250,000 free images - Boing Boing: "Yale is making high-resolution images from its cultural collections available on a free, open access basis. They've started by uploading 250,000 images, with lots more to follow. The collection includes 'a small limestone stela with hieroglyphic inscription from the Peabody Museum of Natural History, a Mozart sonata in the composer's own hand from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, a 15th-century Javanese gold kris handle from the Indo-Pacific collection of Yale University Art Gallery and a watercolor by William Blake.'"

Article Directories - Web Directories - Google Profile

Article Directories - Web Directories - Google Profile: "Roger Matthews. I'm a webmaster and content writer living near the Emerald Coast in beautiful, sunny Florida.

I have been a part of the article marketing community for the past three years. With the help of my editors, I currently run six, human-edited article directories and three bidding directories (web directories). They keep me very busy!

If you follow me, I will always follow back.

Article Directories
Published Articles
Article Log
Read Articles Online
Mzone Articles
Article Directory Zone
Article Marketing Home"

Getting Started on Twitter

Getting Started on Twitter: "How To Get Started on Twitter Ebook

Thank you for requesting a copy of my free ebook on “Getting Started on Twitter”.

This manual will give you a complete overview and food for thought when developing a Twitter strategy that works for both you and your business.

The next email you will receive will have a link to download the PDF file. Please watch your junk mail folder if you do not receive it.

You will need the most recent version of Adobe Reader.

If you are just getting started on Social Media consider adding Twitter Icons to your email signature (these instructions will help you create a clickable hyperlink to your profile and can be used to also add in your YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn and other Social Media accounts."

4 Ways to Jazz Up Your LinkedIn Account | Social Media a la Carte

4 Ways to Jazz Up Your LinkedIn Account | Social Media a la Carte: "where you feel that you’re not being received well through social media networking sites, it’s probably a much easier fix that you’d think. Most of the time, if you feel you’re being ignored, it is most likely by accident, as in the person doesn’t know they are ignoring you.
I mean, put yourself in their position, do you keep up with every little request, update or message?

Typically, we’re too busy to keep up with it all so when you get a friend or connection request, you approve it, and go on with your day.

However, not engaging with others makes social media pointless. Your whole purpose of making accounts is to interact and gain valuable clients, potential clients and/or connections. You need to go past the general “hello” to make this work."

Facebook Vs. Groupon | Social Media & Internet Marketing

Facebook Vs. Groupon | Social Media & Internet Marketing: "Last week, Facebook announced that they’re getting into the discount business.It’s a face-off: Facebook vs. Groupon. Who’s going to come out on top?

In 2010, Forbes hailed Groupon as the fastest growing company ever after passing the billion dollar mark within their first two years. Their valuation pegged them as being worth $1.35 billion dollars when the company was just seventeen months old.

Google attempted to buy Groupon last December for a cool $6 billion dollars—and their offer was rebuffed. "

And to think we were "all making fun of Groupon!"

Blog Design | Social Media a la Carte

Blog Design | Social Media a la Carte: "ur website is your packaging – what people see first about you.

I invite you to pick my brains about your blog! (for free!)
I approach blog design from a completely different point of view. I am an artist and communications expert who has conquered the technical, so I can help you use this very visual medium of the web to communicate your message with both beauty and functionality. Click on the button below to schedule a free assessment of your current site (or to discuss a new site"

Wisdom Tweets | Wisdom a la Carte Blog

Wisdom Tweets | Wisdom a la Carte Blog: "If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play. (John Cleese) http://bit.ly/opy0d

The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.(Julia Cameron) http://bit.ly/opy0d

Creativity is inventing, experimenting, taking risks, breaking rules, having fun. (MaryLou Cook) http://bit.ly/opy0d

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. (Frank Capra) http://bit.ly/opy0d

Creativity means believing you have greatness. (Wayne Dyer) http://bit.ly/opy0d

To stimulate creativity, one must develop the childlike inclination for play. (Albert Einstein) http://bit.ly/opy0d"

DAILY AVAILABLE DOMAIN NAME LISTS READY TO REGISTER: January 2011

DAILY AVAILABLE DOMAIN NAME LISTS READY TO REGISTER: January 2011: "DOMAINNAMEVALUE.CO

DOWNLOADANDLISTEN.NET

MUSICONLINEA.COM

SHOPWEB.CO

VIRTUALSHOPFREE.COM

CANBEDOWNLOADED.COM

AUDIO-VISUALPRODUCTS.COM

MUSICMOVIES.CO

EARLIERTHISWEEK.COM

SOCIALMEDIAWEBSITES.CO

SOCIALMEDIAWEBSITES.ORG

SOCIALMEDIAWEBSITES.INFO"

Rounder Corners, and Bicycle Tours

Courtesy of the innovator of Rounded Corner CSS, as I get back to the task of developing some websites that have been maturing in their latent seed form under the permafrost.

Riding a bike in the winter? Don't forget your Bar Mitts!

BarMitts.com

Authors Note two days ago I installed a new tube and a new tire on the bicycle that I rode on my 400 mile bicycle tour from NY to Montreal with American Youth Hostels.

Cycling is a great sport!

Google Chrome

Google Chrome

Make your site look good in chrome. Kids like Mozilla but adults with their slighter duller vision (I'm talking about simple magnification) love Chrome!

All about Dynamic Views for Readers - Blogger Help

All about Dynamic Views for Readers - Blogger Help: "See more extensions by Google"

IpDaily Rounded Corners- Know the Code

Code-only rounded HTML boxes
DD_roundies is free software under the MIT License.
Please familiarize yourself with known issues.
You might also enjoy DD_belatedPNG.

DillerDesign.com

Interesting when we undertake the obligation to support our "code" even in a rapidly changing environment. With the 8th coming of our precious explorer here is what our very important developer of the Rounded Corner code has to say:

When I came back to it, much had changed. Too much...benefit ratio was too ridiculous for me to continue work on this...

Foolishly, I never wrote anything to this effect because I'd hoped to give it a new college try at some point.

Turns out I like riding my bicycle during my free time more than maintaining this project.

Drew Diller Our Leader in the rounded corner code

However Drew has drawn a new line in the sand of ethical round corner care when stating plainly:

This was a neat experiment, but note that I never took the version numbers out of "alpha" mode. If you feel that my having abandoned this project is in poor taste, let me know, as I have all the records of people who kindly made donations here, and I will refund your money.

Therefore the next time you get so caught up in the game as to wonder if you truly believe in the code, and yes I refer to open source code, just remember how we stand on the shoulders of those who came before us when we support the cause of one of early pioneers. Will there be even just one who will step forward and assume the challenge and take up the chalice to lead all us all in this bloodless revolution of the rounded corners?

"   The CSS3 border-radius property allows web developers to easily utilise rounder corners in their design elements, without the need for corner images or the use of multiple div tags, and is perhaps one of the most talked about aspects of CSS3.

Since first being announced in 2005 the boder-radius property has come to enjoy widespread browser support (although with some discrepancies) and, with relative ease of use, web developers have been quick to make the most of this emerging technology.                    

     
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CSS3.info

The code for this example is, in theory, quite simple:

#example1 {
border-radius: 15px;
}

The Syntax:

border-*-*-radius: [ <length> | <%> ] [ <length> | <%> ]?

Examples:

border-top-left-radius: 10px 5px;
border-bottom-right-radius: 10% 5%;
border-top-right-radius: 10px;

Where two values are supplied these are used to define, in order, the horizontal and vertical radii of a quarter ellipse, which in turn determines the curvature of the corner of the outer border edge.

Where only one value is supplied, this is used to define both the horizontal and vertical radii equally.

The following diagram gives a few examples of how corners might appear given differing radii:

What you see? Is it what you asked for? When browsers change our vision, what do the Web Developers do?