Category: Internet

An Outsourcing Nightmare Turns Into A Public Apology

Friday, 12 February 2010 16:34 Written by Mike 4 Comments

Hello everyone, it has been a little while since I wrote anything here and I will explain that in a later post. But there is something that I must publicly apologize for.

As I will explain in a post later, I have been creating some software for a very cool piece of marketing software and when it came time to get the web site created I did what I normally do, I outsourced it.

And I have had some bad experience with outsourcing before but generally it is a good experience. But I have never had an experience like this. I hired an outsourcer, one that I have used in the past to create the sales pages and landing page for these new products. When I got them back I put them up and other than having my wife spell check them did not do much with them.

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How Do Search Engines Work?

Wednesday, 06 January 2010 09:07 Written by Mike 6 Comments

I hope everyone had a good holiday season.  I know I did.  Now it is time to make 2010 an even better year than 2009.

Here is an old, but a goodie…….

Just like in the movie “Spider Man”, Search Engines Have Their Own… Friendly Neighborhood “Web Crawlers.”

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Results from Last Week’s Survey

Tuesday, 15 December 2009 12:00 Written by Mike 0 Comments

Last week I did a quick survey of how people search for local businesses and services.  I did it as an experiment and although I am not surprised by the winner I am totally surprised by the difference between the winners and losers.  I was not expecting the difference to be so dramatic.

Over the weekend the total number of people I had take the survey was 519, thank you everyone for taking the couple of minutes it took to take the survey.  Below is the results from the survey and how I interpret what they mean.

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List Building Software

Thursday, 09 April 2009 11:12 Written by Mike 1 Comment

As many of you that read this blog know.  This blog is my personal blog, mike myers is my real name and not one of my many pen names.  I am a tech geek at heart so most things on here are generally technology related because that what I like to do in my down time.

I try to keep content from all of my other blogs out it.   Kinda of like a place of peace.  My other few dozen blogs and other sites I write for never blend into this one.  You get the real me here.  You all are my friends :) I know that out of the hundreds that will read this blog entry in the next 24 hours I really only know personally a small percentage of you, you are all still my friends.

So where am I leading to? Well, I am going to bring into this blog a recommendation from one of my other blogs.  Of the people that I do know personally that read my blogs, my tweets, etc.  A lot of them are entrepreneurs just like me.

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Buzzword

Thursday, 31 July 2008 13:35 Written by Mike 0 Comments

I recently did a review on Adobe’s acrobat.com site that allows document storage, document editing, collaboration and screen sharing, file sharing and more.

The part of the acrobat.com site that allows for document editing is called Buzzword.  Buzzword is a pretty powerful web based application that allows you to edit documents online in a word processor that somewhat resembles the big guys like Microsoft Word.

Buzzword is not as feature packed as Microsoft Word but for most tasks it will probably do just fine.  There is no charge for acrobat.com or Buzzword so it is hard to complain that they are not full featured :) .

This is the initial release of Buzzword, so I suspect that sometime in the near future new features will be added.

One cool thing about Buzzword and acrobat.com is they allow collaboration between multiple users.  You can share files, share documents, etc.  It also appears that more than one person can be editing the same file at the same time without losing work.

If you compare it to the other free word processors out there, buzzword is better than any that I have seen.  Also, you can access your document from anywhere on the Internet.  But yes, you need to be connected to the internet to get to it.  So you cannot just take your laptop out to lake where you have no internet and work on your document.

There is also an Adobe AIR based version of the acrobat.com suite of programs.  I am not sure if it can run without the internet or not, that is something I will have to research and update everyone on.  The little bit of research I did on the AIR version did not turn out happy comments.  Most comments were that it was hard to use.

Check back soon for an update on the AIR version of acrobat.

Bottom line, Buzzword is great for most regular word processing, it is free and has nice collaboration capabilities.  But if you need the advanced features that are available in Microsoft Word, then Buzzword is not there yet.  But by all means, check it out.

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