11.18.08
Posted in Business at 11:56 am by adrianhall
A great session at PubCon Las Vegas 2008 (of many) was Competitive Intelligence : Know Thy Competitor Well with Jake Baillie, Andy Beal, Larry Mersman, William Atchison.
Bill Atchison’s approach to competitor snooping and scraping seemed smart, so I jotted down the product brand stamped on his Powerpoint slides, CrawlWall, and this morning I popped in to see what it was all about. Looks very promising, but not launched yet.
Bill, if you’re listening, it would be cool if you set up an email list to announce the product launch.
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09.08.08
Posted in Business at 2:21 pm by adrianhall
José Ferrer has launched contenterte, a Spanish web content extraction service. His blog in Spanish is here.
I would just like to wish him the very best of luck
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08.27.08
Posted in Business at 9:17 am by adrianhall
After years as a social media doubting Thomas, I’m starting to get the fun of them. I’ve had a delicious account (http://delicious.com/elguiri) and a LinkedIn account (http://www.linkedin.com/in/AKHall) for a while, but I’ve done little with them. Aren’t these things for kiddies?
Recently I’ve become a convert to one of the most infantile - twitter (http://twitter.com/elguiri) and find myself playing on facebook (http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=683955730) for more time than I’d care to admit. Most of all, I like the interaction between twitter, facebook and blogs.
Today I noticed how someone who’s living depends on being read and recognised - Danny Sullivan - moves new pieces of research on his blog, by posting it on twitter.
Danny has an impressive 4,500 followers on twitter. As many of those people may not follow his blog every day or take an RSS feeds, Danny can push his bigger stories this way and generate buzz, especially when retweets ripple through the blogging and tweeting community.
There used to exist a method of getting web pages spidered more efficiently called “blog and ping”. I think “blog and tweet” will have a longer shelf life.
And there’s even a plug in to combine the two: Twitter Tools
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05.29.07
Posted in Business, Technology at 12:27 pm by adrianhall
I’ve been mucking around with sidebar widgets. They look great in principal, but I had them disperse my content all over the page and then, when I tried to correct, give me a PHP error.
Ho humm. Time to start again.
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