Archive for the ‘Website Marketing’ Category

Win $50.00 - theSUGGESTR.com Launch Contest

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

Local suggestion site theSUGGESTR.com is holding a contest as part of its re-launch that will grant $50.00 worth of Perk Points* to the user who earns the most points between now and August 17th 2008.  Points can be earned by just rating places on the site and inviting friends.  What's ...

Huge directory list sorted by PageRank

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

I found a great list of 3250 directories bosed on a blog I like to read.  Unfortunately I wasn't in the mood to submit to all of them.  So I built a small program that found me the Google PageRank of all 3250.  For your viewing pleasure here is the list ...

MyFriendSuggests.com Joins New Rewards Program

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

We are pleased to announce that MyFriendSuggests.com has joined the MyPerkPlace Perk Network. MyPerkPlace is a brand new website that aims to allow other websites to reward it's users for contributing and participating in the growth of ...

How to get the most out of My Friend Suggests.com!

Saturday, October 20th, 2007

  How to get the most out of MyFriendSuggests.com? If you’ve found yourself to this page you’ve probably tried our site MyFriendSuggests.com, if not go try it now and come back here after.  As a new site we are encourage you to submit feedback about what you like, what you don’t like ...

Free Resources for Promoting your new website

Thursday, October 4th, 2007

I am in the processing of promoting our new webiste, MyFriendSuggests.com.  I've been keeping track of different resources I've used to help promote the site and figured it was worth sharing in hopes that others would share back any sites I missed.  I'm only including sitest that are 1) Free, ...

Book Review: Founders At Work

Sunday, May 13th, 2007

I'm not much of a reader, but I just read a book Founders At Work, by Jessica Livingston.  It's basically a bunch of interviews done with various people who led some of the biggest startups of the past 10-20 years.  I found it to be a real interesting read especially ...

Scraping Hotmail for Contacts using JScrape

Saturday, May 5th, 2007

As we've seen in my posts for scraping AOL, GMail and Yahoo, each site has its own "tricks" that make it challenging to scrape contact information from.  The final site in this series of posts is for Hotmail.  Hotmail is one of the trickier ones.  As I did with the ...

Scraping GMAIL for contacts

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

In our previous posts we've looked at how to scrape both Yahoo! and AOL webmail for a list of contacts given a username and password.  This technique can be critical in growing your user base by allowing your users to invite many friends in one quick and easy step.  Our ...

Scraping AOL WebMail for contacts

Monday, April 30th, 2007

This is the 3rd post in a short series discussing how I built an API to grab contact list information from Yahoo!, AOL, GMail and Hotmail.  In our first post we reviewed the high level approach to scraping sites.  In our second post we went over how to scrape Yahoo! ...

Scraping WebMail sites for contacts using JScrape

Sunday, April 29th, 2007

Many new websites, especially those that depend on social networks, are now offering ways to import contacts from various WebMail sites.  I'm not going to go into the ethics of asking a user for their user name and password to a webmail site and scraping the site but I will ...