Archive | June, 2009

Facebook Pages: I’m a Day Late/Dollar Short

29. June 2009

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My plan was to spiff up the business page before I went trolling for more fans. But I didn't quite get to that yet. :-( So here I am, hours after the carriage turned into a pumpkin, the page in its skivvies, begging for fans to push me over the 100 mark. I need 70 more. Please. Click here: http://www.facebook.com/advertising/#/pages/Los-Angeles-CA/Bob-Taylor-Properties-Inc/7694836362 Then click, "Become a Fan". Thanks.  Just ask if you need me to return the favor.    Background info: http://www.searchenginejournal.com/grab-you-facebook-fan-pages-vanity-urls-tonight/11481/ http://mashable.com/2009/06/28/facebook-url-pages/

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VFLyer Gallery into RSS Feed

28. June 2009

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Here's an idea:  If you have a VFlyer account, did you know you can turn your VFlyer gallery into an RSS feed? From the VFlyer Flyer tab, click View Account Profile That will take you to screen displaying a gallery view of all your active listings.  Select and Copy the URL (web address). (It will look something like this http://www.vflyer.com/home/Listing.jsp?acctId=1077084 --that's the gallery view for Above The Rainbow Jewelry, one of my pro bono** web site clients :-)  ) Go to FeedBurner and paste that URL into Feedburner's "Burn a feed right this instant" box. Click through Feedburner's steps, then copy FeedBurner's newly assigned feed address.  It will look something like this:  http://feeds.feedburner.com/AbovetherainbowsListings Using a plugin such as FeedWordPress or WP-o-Matic, you can plug that feed into an existing WordPress blog.  Then each time you add a new listing to your VFLyer account, a post with a link to the VFlyer will automatically show up in your WordPress blog. (P.S. Now that I've updated FeedWordPress to the 2009.0618 version, I've returned to using it over WP-o-Matic.  WP-o-Matic wasn't displaying embedded videos...) **  I've been helping Lilian get started with an online presence for her jewelry-making.  What I've learned about product photography, building an etsy shop, etc., etc., has been more valuable than charging her money.  :-)  )

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HR3044: 18 month moratorium on HVCC

27. June 2009

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Representatives Childers (D-MS) and Miller (R-CA) introduced HR 3044 on June 26,  which calls for an 18 month moratorium on HVCC (Home Valuation Code of Conduct) http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/mortgage_rates/blog/87536.aspx  http://www.mortgagegrapevine.com/thread/?thread=567033  Petition:  http://www.hvccpetition.com/  

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Google Wave

26. June 2009

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I think I could do a lot with this, from transaction management to an office intranet.  The video is long, about an hour and twenty minutes ... so don't fire it up unless you have some time to spare.   Google explains Wave basics here:  http://wave.google.com/help/wave/about.html Developers can request a sandbox account here  https://services.google.com/fb/forms/wavesignupfordev/ Ordinary folks can enlist to be bug finders here (this is what I did) https://services.google.com/fb/forms/wavesignup/  I just signed up to play on PyGo's test wave.  Will report back. http://code.google.com/p/pygowave-server/

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Internet Slave Labor

24. June 2009

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Do you get comments from bozos like these on your WordPress blogs?   Since I have a comment captcha plugin installed, I can only imagine these are real live people, locked in a room, chained to a keyboard, paid a few cents per every comments. The $300 a Day guys seems to show up on all my WP blogs.  

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Twitter/Revolution in Iran

22. June 2009

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If you want to read tweets from the streets of Iran, the Stimulist says these are the hashtags you want: #iranelection #gr88 The article's author also suggests: Help
 cover
 Iranian 
bloggers. Change 
your 
Twitter
 settings 
so 
that
 your 
location 
is
 TEHRAN 
and 
your 
time 
zone 
is 
GMT
+3.30. 

Security 
forces 
are 
hunting 
for
 bloggers 
using 
location 
and 
timezone 
searches.
 
If 
we 
all 
become
 ‘Iranians,' 
it
 becomes impossible to find them. Here's a link to the full article:  http://thestimulist.com/the-7-habits-of-highly-effective-protest-twitterers/ So, for now, my location is Tehran.  Hyper-localism can wait.

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The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same

19. June 2009

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While browsing through Google Books the other day, I came across this Real Estate Law Book from the year 1901.  http://books.google.com/books?id=UEU9AAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=law+of+real+property&ei=8qQ7Su2UBI_ElQTBmJC6BQ Here's another from 1910. http://books.google.com/books?id=AxA9AAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=law+of+real+property&ei=BKc7SoDlEIOmkASS4bS6BQ These are too good not to share. Browse through the table of contents, and you'll chuckle over how many issues sound familiar. 

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Google AdWords: Placement Performance Report

19. June 2009

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Sometimes the simple things are the hardest.  :-) If you run Google AdWords campaigns, you probably want to know where your ads appear. Google says create a Placement Performance Report, yadayada, "Select Level of Detail", yadayada. Well, I wasn't seeing the "Level of Detail" drop down menu, and I was banging my head on the monitor for several days, until I realized that I had the "Placement/Keyword Performance" report selected, when I should have selected the "Placement Performance" report.  Sheesh.    

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Installing WP o’Matic

17. June 2009

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My installation notes: 1.  Download and unzip WP o’Matic.  Download and unzip SimplePie Core. 2.  FTP to host account and upload both to wp-content/plugins. 3.  Open WP o’Matic folder.  Create new folder titled “cache”.  Set CHMOD permissions for cache folder to 777 4.  USE FIREFOX:  At WordPress admin panel, in plugins activate both WP o’Matic and SimplePie Core 5.  Run [...]

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FaceBook Question

15. June 2009

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I make FaceBook pages from time to time ..... I recently started making a FaceBook page for each property we list ..... So here's the question... Is there a FaceBook app that will generate a list of all my current pages and display the list on my profile???  

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