Archive for the ‘Website Marketing’ Category
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
Posted in Java, MyFriendSuggests, Scraping, Website Marketing | 3 Comments »
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 ...
Posted in Java, Scraping, Website Marketing | 2 Comments »
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! ...
Posted in Java, Scraping, Website Marketing | 4 Comments »
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 ...
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