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Drew Meyers currently runs ESM Exec Designs, a design shop specializing in corporate and personal blog design. Travel addict managing Oh Hey World, a travel blog focused on generation X & Y, and real estate technology enthusiast. In his free time, Drew enjoys reading, traveling the world, spending time with passionate people, and is active member of the microfinance community.
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Monthly Archives: November 2006
What is RSS?
My friend just read my RSS reader post from the other day and asked me “what is RSS?” I realize there are still a fair number of people that don’t realize the benefits that RSS provides. Quite simply, RSS stands for really simple syndication. It enables you pull data (using an RSS reader) rather than data being pushed to you (the way e-mail works). How do you pull? RSS is an XML file of raw data-basically, a web site. Every time you open your reader, it pulls updated data from that site. For instance, paste this into your address bar to see what my site’s RSS feed looks like–it’s all standardized text: http://www.drewmeyersinsights.com/feed If you’ve … Continue reading
Waiting for Your Cat to Bark? Book Review
Waiting for Your Cat to Bark? Pursuading Customers When they Ignore Marketing. Written by Bryan and Jeffrey Eisenberg. Photo courtesy of Amazon.com Full disclosure: I received this book for free at the Blog Business Summit a month ago as part of PR Web’s sponsorship of the event. My views on this book are mixed–I found the 1st half of the book very insightful while I found my attention wavering during the 2nd half. The title of the book, Waiting for your Cat to Bark?, absolutely describes the issue marketers are now facing. The book contrasts the older generation with the younger generation by using the cat vs dog analogy. Dogs will listen to what someone … Continue reading
Snowing in Seattle?
Crazy!! It’s actually snowing in Seattle. And to top it off…the Seahawks beat the Packers in a great monday night game. I’m sure most fans that tuned into the game were stunned the game was in Seattle and not Green Bay (where it ALWAYS snows) when they saw snow flurries. It wasn’t the prettiest game in Hawks history, but we managed to pull it off by a score of 34-24. Photo courtesy of Seattle Seahawks Blog
iStockPhoto Case Study…
is now posted at Startup Review. I should note that the image in the header of this blog was purchased off of iStockphoto. Go check it out!
RSS: What Reader Do You Use?
I found an interesting article this morning titled “Who’s Using What for RSS?” It doesn’t hurt that it contains a cool graphic (below). Personally, I’m in the “Others” category by using myYahoo! I’ve heard bloglines is great and have been contemplating switching readers. What RSS Reader do you use??
Interview with Digg CEO Jay Adelson
Speaking of web 2.0, Techcrunch made me aware of an interview with Digg’s CEO, Jay Adelson. Here it is–happy viewing!
MySpace & Putting all Your Eggs in one Basket
Face it–putting all your eggs in one basket is a horrible business strategy. The more pieces of the business operations that a company controls, the better off they are. Are bands promoting themselves on myspace making the mistake of putting all their eggs in one basket? Teresa’s “The Death of Myspace” post at Blog Business Summit got me thinking: what happens when myspace loses its appeal and its 100 million users flock to the next “hip” social networking platform? Afterall, there is already a study stating that “myspace is so last year” in the minds of today’s teens. Additionally, over at Puddlegum, there is an interesting article that goes into some of the reasons that … Continue reading
