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I Bought my First NFT, Not for the Reason You Might Think

Monday, 27 September 2021 by Paul O'Brien

It’s difficult today, online, if you’re paying any attention all to cryptocurrency or media innovation, to not have heard “NFT” A .gif of Nyan Cat sold for lots and lots (and lots) of money as an NFT. These things have interest near hype from Nike, Visa, Warner Music Group, and Nike. Time Magazine‘s recently sold 4,500 TIMEPieces in

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So you have a web startup idea…

Friday, 05 November 2010 by Paul O'Brien

Who doesn’t have a web startup idea? By my last count, I have… let me see…. 13. No 14. Unfortunately, I have roughly the same plan to get them built. Guess that’s not going to work. I’d tell you about them but you’d have to sign an NDA. Thanks to Kevin Liu at Outright for

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Anyone try Tweeter Getter?

Friday, 13 February 2009 by Paul O'Brien

I haven’t stopped my work with Twitter from a couple days ago with the most recent discovery a viral app that seems to work a bit like a pyramid scheme to introduce new users to your profile. Check it out here Anyone use this? Any success?

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Increasing your Twitter Followers – Comment here

Tuesday, 10 February 2009 by Paul O'Brien

Though only in beta, FIDDYP’s word press plugin WP-Twitip-ID is a brilliantly simple innovation enabling blogs to add Twitter profiles to users’ comments. The commenting systems on blog platforms are entirely limited, at this point, to the promotion of a reader’s website, limiting engagement by way of this dynamic communication platform. Twitip adds a Twitter

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Connect with Facebook

Thursday, 08 January 2009 by Paul O'Brien

Well I have spent the better part of the holiday designing and wrapping up a new site. Interpreting my blog’s title, you might imagine my last name to be O’Brien, that is unless you make the mistake of interpreting my name as Brian with the SEO… you get the idea. To be sure, I am

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The 4 Fundamental Web Technologies for User Retention

Friday, 24 October 2008 by Paul O'Brien

Standing in the shower this morning I had one of those epiphanies (yes, I know, perhaps TMI but I like to paint a picture in your mind so you can follow along with my logic 🙂 ). This was an epiphany while contemplating why people stay with a website. As I considered all of the

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Published in Comparison Shopping, Google, Insights / Research, Natural Search / SEO, Search, Social Media

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Kickstart social networking with Ya-huh?

Tuesday, 06 November 2007 by Paul O'Brien

An odd choice for the name of Yahoo’s next social network. Certainly, I applaud Yahoo’s effort as the internet brand which years ago should have defined social networking by simply adding connectivity between its users. Today they launch Kickstart, a clear shot at the origin of Facebook, targeting college students and alumni. If ever there

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