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Working for a Startup is All Fun and Games

Thursday, 03 December 2009 by Paul O'Brien

If this doesn’t at least want to make you want to consider working for a startup… Jump to 4:10 to catch Outright.com’s mystery founders getting their groove on and thanks to First Round Capital for a great idea last holiday season

Published in Startups, Surplus

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10 Twitter Lists You Need to Set Up

Friday, 30 October 2009 by Paul O'Brien

If you haven’t yet been introduced to Twitter Lists (they are in beta), you are in for a treat. As you use Twitter, and over time amass thousands of people that you follow, you’ll quickly find that paying any meaning full attention to the stream is impossible. Such an experience certainly explains the speculation that

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Published in Social Media

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Identifying Comment Spam with Google

Wednesday, 21 October 2009 by Paul O'Brien

I was torn on how to title this post; this is either Further proof of the depths to which Google’s bot will go to crawl your content or An alternative to Akismet Have I lost you? Let me start from the beginning. I have an unhealthy interest in comment spam. It sits in a different

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Published in Blogs & Blogging, Google, Natural Search / SEO

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Ping bing – The SEO Tongue Twister

Tuesday, 20 October 2009 by Paul O'Brien

One of the techniques used to attract search engine spiders to your blog or website is called pinging. Essentially, you alert the search engine of any changes to your site and it draws a crawler to reindex the content. This works on the same basic technology as the Trackback and Pingback with which you might

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Published in Search

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See You At TechCrunch50?

Thursday, 10 September 2009 by Paul O'Brien

Monday and Tuesday next week, September 14-15, the industry’s exciting technologies and entrepreneurs converge on San Francisco and the San Francisco Design Center Concourse for one of the most influential events for startups and web services. Last year, TC50 hosted 250 start-up and early-stage companies, pitching to thousands of 2,000 attendees and buyers, VCs and

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Published in Conferences / Events

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Sign of the economic times? Google Lets Brands Run More Than One Search Campaign on a Keyword

Thursday, 10 September 2009 by Paul O'Brien

Did I fall asleep?Â I turn my attention from Search for a few weeks (okay, so it’s really been a bit longer) and I return to find major companies running more than one campaign in paid search! To many of you this may not be news; like I said, I’m playing catch up.Â Just the

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Published in Google, Paid Search

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eBay Sellers Automate Records with Free Selling Manager App

Wednesday, 19 August 2009 by Paul O'Brien

As an old eCommerce hack, I’m personally excited to share that Outright.com is automating bookkeeping for eBay sellers, free, through eBay’s Selling Manager Apps.Â With the click of a button, the new app automatically pulls in the existing eBay transaction history, including sales, fees and expenses, and PayPal transactions, and continues to import sales, retaining

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Published in Analytics, eCommerce

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