I love using Gmail, but the one thing that always drove me nuts was waiting 45 min to an hour for my emails to be imported from my You Brand, Inc. email address, into my Gmail account. So I did some searching and I came across this awesome browser extension called Gmail POP3 Checker.
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Social PPC Network MyLikes
We’ve been testing out a new (or newer) social advertising platform called MyLikes. We see these pop up every so often and like to dive in to see if they have potential.
Sure PPC within the stream of a social network might seem like spam (I would kind of agree) but we are starting to see more and more users and influencers take to this model.
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What is Twine and Why You Should Use It
Twine is a social networking site that allows you to connect anything you find online within one inter-twined conversation. From Facebook, Myspace, Digg, De.li.cous, Bebo, Twitter, blogs, etc… all are connected within a conversation or twine in one place.
Essentially a very robust comment stream with multiple contributors. These interests help to group your personal interests and also allow you to connect with other Twiners that share your interests as well.
A Twine can include: Bookmarks, Pictures, Videos, and soon more. Also other Twiners then can leave comments on your Twines and the links to the content giving praise or criticism to those links. The power of Twine is where you can create Twines and share insights, links, posts, and other content within the twine. Others who are interested in the same topic can add comments, additional links, posts, blogs, videos, the list is endless.
Analytics for Social Media
I’ve been testing and using what I consider to be a great application for tracking my social media activity.
SWIX is like Google Analytics for social media. You wouldn’t run an important web-site without tracking your traffic patterns, nor should you invest in social media without understanding how it’s working for you.
Here is what I like about Swix:
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Find Your Target Market On Twitter
I’ve been using a great tool to find our target market on Twitter.
FollowWonk allows you to easily and quickly find your target market by searching Twitter user bio’s. I like this tool better than others because it allows you sort your search, search by location, friend/follower counts, and displays the results in a very easy to use list.
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Rockmelt Browser Review
There is a new socially connected browser that I’ve been using for a bit now that I think is worth sharing with you. This new browser is called Rockmelt.
To be fair this isn’t a new idea. You might have heard of the Firefox based browser Flock. While I tried to use Flock and really wanted to love it ultimately it just didn’t grab me.
