Archive for April, 2008

4 Most Underused Projects We’ve Launched

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

4. MoneyShui.
The Idea: Find reviews for finance and investing books
The Problem: Not enough content yet.
The Solution: We need to get things going. I still haven’t copied all of the InvestorGeeks reviews over. Getting a fresh blogger there would help too. So would marketing it as an SEO scam… you need a review here. You need to link here. You need a link from here.

3. DietShui.
The Idea: Find reviews for diet books. a.k.a. MoneyShui for diet and health books.
The Problem: Same as MoneyShui. It needs content to be of use to people.
The Solution: Same as above.

2. NoteTrain.
The Idea: Take some prose writing and convert it into a “train” of sentences presented one line at a time.
The Probelm: Two fold here: (1) We haven’t been spreading the word on this one and (2) It’s kind of pointless.
The Solution: Let people know how fun this is and how useful it can be. I use it to send Kim love notes. It’s different.

1. SearchRascal.
The Idea: Keep track of search result rankings for keywords your tracking.
The Problem: Just launched and no one knows about it. We need some people using it to justify the server costs.
The Solution: Push on our SEO buddies to spread the word a bit. I’ve submitted the site to some blogs and stuff but no one is picking up on this. Perhaps the idea isn’t as awesome as I thought it was. Nah, I doubt that. We need a little bit of publicity to get this going. The site really is useful to SEO professionals and anyone who wants to track search rankings for a website or group of queries.

Some Unix/Hacker Humor via XKCD

Friday, April 4th, 2008

I just got turned on to this web comic that every real hacker has known about for a while: xkcd.

This comic there got me laughing a bit…

… even though I don’t really condone the “make me a sandwich” behavior, attitude, or stereotype.

Enjoy!

Get Your Sweet On - Wordpress E-Commerce

Friday, April 4th, 2008

We just launched Sweet WillYums, which is important to you for two reasons.

(1) They make something called Uncle Eric’s Granola Biscotti, and it’s the best baked good I’ve ever eaten. You should buy some… or check out their other goodies.

(2) The site is built on top of Wordpress, using our very own e-commerce plugin. It’s not ready for mass distribution, but we’re using it to launch at least 3 other sites right now. Sweet WillYums integrates with PayPal, but other sites will use everything from an email-based order form to Authorize.net and other payment gateways.

Have a good weekend.