Kin Lane's Blog – March 2008 Archive (5)

Just got a request to install Wordpress blog for a client that will potentially receive a large amount of traffic.



So I opted to use the Mosso.com Cloud Hosting Platform by Rackspace. Took me less than 10 minutes to setup the site, install, and configure the Wordpress blog.



In my Mosso.com admin interface and added a new web site, chose to use PHP 5 as core technology and chose mysql as the database.



* Once setup and created a MySQL database.

* I FTP'ed the… Continue

I have bee spending the week finding many types of RSS feeds for different purposes. I am building large lists of them under different topics and tracking the source of these feeds.



I am noticing about 1 in 10 feeds are using Feedburner or any type of tracking for it.



Though I am happier at the amount of quality data available via RSS it concerns me that people who have employed RSS do not understand the the value of tracking their RSS consumption and usage.



I… Continue

I have been getting happier with the contact management tools available in Gmail...and some of the integration with other Google Applications.



I would like to see more social networking and social graph management tools, like their recent social graph api release.



Now Google has added another simple, yet powerful tool to their API arsenal. A common contact list has helped power applications like Gmail, Google Reader, and Google Calendar, and with the launch of the Google… Continue

Was just reading Facebook Marketing Opportunities over at Digital Podcast.



I am currently playing around with several strategies for marketing our companies products on Facebook.



His statement about 8 ways to market on Facebook really stood out, and I have seen reciprocated on several other core marketing blogs:



* Application Development

* Group Participation

* Paid Groups

* Targete Ads

* Newsfeed Advertising

* Beacon Advertising

*… Continue

I was just reading MySpace Developer Platform: Jim Benedetto, MySpace on Jeremiah Owyang's blog. He is at the Social Graph Conference in San Diego. I wish I was there.



Anyways he was posting a bunch of information about the MySpace development platform and it really shows an impressive approach on their part in reaching out to the developers community.



Their approach is much better than Facebook.



Yet we still give more priority to building Facebook apps and… Continue