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The Cruise Book has Arrived
Posted on December 20, 2008 by Ching under Life, Web.
FedEx delivered my cruise book today. Hurrah! Click here for a 15-page preview. Click here to purchase a copy.
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Companies on Twitter
Posted on December 19, 2008 by Ching under Blog, Web.
It’s funny. The other day when I was tweeting a lot about Carrabba’s I had told Brian jokingly, “Just watch. Carrabba’s is going to start following me any day now.” Jason’s Deli and a few other companies had found me the same way. One day I was tweeting about them (in the case of Jason’s Deli, I had posted a couple of food pictures), the next day they’re following my updates. Sure enough, I received an email notifying me that Carrabba’s is now following me. In return I started following them, too.
There are a lot of companies already utilizing Twitter to creep out their customers. Comcast being one. I remember I had posted a link to an article about this exact same thing, and I received an @reply back from them saying something to the effect of it’s not being creepy per se but more good customer service than anything else. Anyway, since I’ve been posting a lot about my dissatisfaction with FedEx and not delivering my package as scheduled, I wonder if they’ve noticed. Does anyone know if FedEx is on Twitter? We’ll find out soon enough I guess.
Click here for an extensive list of companies who are on Twitter. Here are some relevant articles:
- How Companies Use Twitter to Bolster Their Brands
- Can Twitter Be Useful For Business?
- How companies connect using Twitter
- Smart companies use Twitter. Here’s how.
- How should companies use Twitter?
- Reimagining direct marketing with a (Twitter) spin
- How to Turn Twitter into an Ad Network In Three Easy Steps
- Report on social networking sites for business use, employment opportunities
- Filtering Twitter, One Tweet at a Time
- “Twitter Means Business” — A Twitter Manual for Companies
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Twitter Ruined My Life
Posted on December 17, 2008 by Ching under Web.
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Real-Time Blog Traffic Feeds
Posted on December 11, 2008 by Ching under Blog, Web.
I’m usually against cluttering the blog with useless crap. I’m deviating from my usual MO this time, though. FEEDJIT doesn’t seem competely useless. 🙂
The live traffic feed on the bottom right corner of the page tells me where the last ten visitors are from. Pretty interesting info. Plus, isn’t this map thing kind of neat? Okay, so it will be neater once the visitors start registering on there. =P
I also added the WassUp WordPress plugin, but you can’t see it because I didn’t enable the widget. I’m just gathering data right now. I’ll process all that info later. Mostly it’s just for my own use. So I don’t think I’ll be adding the widget at all. The charts and stuff are cool. I like the mini one that appears in my dashboard. All that info is just strictly for me, though. No need to share it with the rest of the world. 😉
[ Jenni: Let me know if you want me to load the plugin in your WP also. The database can get huge for sites with lots of traffic so, if you decide you want it, please be sure to set the database to automatically empty the tables on a fairly regular basis immediately after activation. Come to think of it, let me know if you want any of my plugins and I will load them in your plugins folder also. ]
Speaking of traffic and stats, I think I broke something on my web site because my Awstats haven’t worked since the end of May. Not that it matters any. I can count the number of people who visit this site in one hand. I just want to be prepared with data gathering tools for when traffic starts piling in. =P
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Hardwicke will not be directing “New Moon”
Posted on December 9, 2008 by Ching under Movies, Web.
It’s amazing what you find out when you have a lot of time on your hands. You guessed it. I am at home sick today. Bedridden. Thank God for laptops and wireless internet. I may be bedridden, but at least I’m not bored. How can you be bored when the vast world wide web awaits? LOL.
I have something else to be thankful for today. Summit has confirmed that Catherine Hardwicke will not be directing the Twilight sequel New Moon. I’m glad they are replacing her because there were just so many things about Twilight that bugged me. Anyway, I’m anxious to find out who they select to fill director position.
Incidentally, I submitted my first IMDb correction-slash-update-request today (reference number 081209-195552-238000). I noticed that Hardwicke still has New Moon listed in her filmography credits. I requested the correction citing Summit’s recent press release. There’s no point hanging on to what was.
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