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07.08.08I Could Be AnythingSo today I had this idea for a little mini site that parses twitter updates, called I Could Be Anything. I Could Be Anything monitors the Twitter public timeline and looks for messages that can be appended to the words "I am". Back when I was doing my degree, I used to create alot of work that involved typography and poetry, so this was a fun little site to build. I played around alot with how to filter out certain stop words (he, she, etc), and punctuation marks, also I discovered that typically if a sentence fragment has more than ...
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04.29.08Finding FREE Keyword Focused ContentAt this exact moment, there are a staggering number of conversations taking place on the web. People are talking, man! And they're talking about STUFF! Real STUFF! Like Cars, and Toothpaste, and Shoes, and Credit Cards!! AMAZING, eh? OK, so maybe it's not totally amazing, but what IS amazing is that you can leverage all these free conversations for content. For the sake of this post, I hacked up a quick and dirty sample that scrapes summize.com to deliver keyword focused chunks of content for you to use however you see fit. This is programmed in Ruby, using the Mechanize ...
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04.11.08Dear Twitter Spammers: You’re Doing it Wrong.Using twitter as a link dump for backlinks really isn't a very disruptive use of the system. You dont need any followers, so you don't have to worry about mass-following a whole bunch of people and annoying them by inflating their follower-count or clogging their email with notifications. I really don't see any problem with doing this because it doesn't annoy anyone. But alot of you are trying to leverage Twitter to get traffic to your sites. You mass follow a whole bunch of people in hopes that they will follow you back and then will see and click ...
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03.26.08Using Twitter to Collect Email AddressesWant to collect peoples email's using Twitter? Why not? COLLECT GMAIL ADDRESS TWEETS COLLECT HOTMAIL ADDRESS TWEETS COLLECT LIVE ADDRESS TWEETS COLLECT YAHOO ADDRESS TWEETS Ok, I promise I'll stop posting about twitter topics...soon....soon.... Until then, if you are a sucker for punishment, you can always follow me on Twitter UPDATE: This loophole in the twitter/tweetscan system has been fixed. See ladies and gents? Disclosure DOES work. I just know some of the more righteous among you are shaking your head and thinking that Im destroying good exploits by blogging about them. To which I say: ...
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03.11.08Amplify your blog farm with Twitter and TwitterfeedOK, let's continue on in the same vein and talk a bit more about Twitter. Specifically, let's talk about using Twitter to amplify your Blog, or (better yet) your blog farm. If you're using a tool like Datapresser, then you already have a healthy blog farm that is autoposting content and links for you. Let's say we've got 100 new pages of content going up everyday, and everything is running smoothly. Of course, we're always interested in ways to get easy links to our new content, aren't we? Well, using Twitter and Twitterfeed.com, we can automatically get a twitter ...
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