The first test of Embedly parsing a one line YouTube URL worked great. I learned that the plug-in did not work with my WordPress CKEditor plugin – CKEditor was a more advanced WYSIWIG editor for posts – giving me a bit more control over the HTML layout,...
Testing how the Embedly plugin for WordPress will automatically render over 100 types of links for photo, videos and products into a rich media blog post just by pasting the link into a single line in your blog post. If it works as suggested – it should...
Recapping and Saving Tweets Each Week on the Blog I made the decision a while back to focus on my blog as the ‘hub’ and use the various social networks, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter – more as ”spokes’ for distribution of content. Since the...
The new phonebook is out. I see them is stacks by the doors in every office. Just sitting in the floor… I was just wondering, “When is the last time you used a phone book to find a number for a person or a business?” — for me it’s been...
LinkedIn now has over 100 million users. It’s interesting the way top level executives use the service in vastly different ways from entry-level workers. via How Are People Really Using LinkedIn? [INFOGRAPHIC].
Direct from the federal archives, here is the Declaration of Independence. Drafted by Thomas Jefferson, and signed by 56 representatives of the original colonies, the Declaration sets out the reasons why the Continental Congress voted on July 2, 1776 to separate...
The largest portion of marketing budgets are now focused on customer retention first and customer aquisition second and branding third. Over the next year, 56% of respondents said that they will increase their online marketing spend, 54% will increase their social...
The Modern Media Agency Series is supported by IDG. IDG predicts online ad spend will reach almost $35 billion in the U.S. for 2011, an increase of nearly 14% from 2010. While online advertising continues to register significant gains quarter to quarter, the...
Tying to create a blank photo album in Facebook is very difficult because they force you to add new photos to an album. I really need to create a blank album so that I can better organize my existing photos. Here’s how. Updated Video Instructions for 2013...
I’m trying to better organize some of our photo’s in my facebook photo albums … I seem to drop them all in the ‘mobile uploads’ album and keep getting these misc 100 photo albums created… I wish there was a better way to organize...
For those who are interested in a little more than just the Top 100 Most Valuable Brands for 2011, the report breaks everything down by industry and region, while also providing some interesting opinion from industry leaders along the way. You can download the PDF...
No. 1 Tiger Woods, $75 million, Golf, Age: 35 Woods has failed to win tournaments or sign new sponsorship deals since his November 2009 car crash and the infidelity scandal that followed. Yet he retains two valuable partners, Nike and Electronic Arts, both of which...
Wow – as a someone who loves a good game of chess – this looks so intriguing! This small company, http://www.3manchess.com/ has invented a round chess board and a set of rules that enables three people to play chess at once. via Three-player chess game...
Mark Zuckerberg ranks 52 on the Forbes list of billionaires. 28 years old and worth $13.5 billion. Facebook has also created 7 more billionaires, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin and Sean Parker. Facebook has also billionified investors Peter Thiel and Yuri Milner...
This is how it should be done. TV funnyboy Jerry Seinfeld, concerned about posterity, has created an awesome curation site that will ultimately contain nearly all his content, mostly in video format. It just went live seconds before this posting. Watch and laugh:...
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This is an amazing visual look at how the digital world looks today and how it will change and look in just five more short more years. [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/23903009[/vimeo] via The Digital World, Now and Soon | Digitizd.
Just saw that in WW2, 43 million American men were registered for combat service. Today we have 1.4M active and 1.5M reserve personnel The Startup Genome Project Examines the Science of Startups http://bit.ly/j9q5xg Dog Sucked up by Tornado Finds His Way Home...
Called “Footprints,” it was created in 2006 by director Stu Maschwitz and Detroit ad agency Campbell-Ewald. Maschwitz started out at George Lucas’s Industrial Light and Magic, then co-founded top visual-effects company The Orphanage, where he worked...