http://www.ironmonkeyventures.com/blog Search Engine Optimization, Website Strategy, Marketing, and Consulting Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:50:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A little PR goes a long long way for @myflightinfo I launched the bot during the first week of January this year.  Actually, it was a few days before the Miracle on the Hudson event.  So, I decided to hold off on the marketing. I was marketing the bot to those I ... http://www.ironmonkeyventures.com/blog/2009/02/case-study-twitter-bot-myflightinfo/ Good article on personal SEO and how the author Julia Angwin went about it. My favorite quote: "And thus, I learned the final lesson of SEO: Patience is required." http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123379331364449967.html?mod=rss_whats_news_technology The murky art of search-engine optimization can surface a person's better side online with the proper techno-aggrandizing. http://www.ironmonkeyventures.com/blog/2009/02/223/ There are many Twitter webapps that show you the most popular items (links, hashtags, profiles etc). What's missing are these tools for MY network. Twitter has become a social bookmarking/discovery tool for me.  I really on all my friends to let me know what they find interesting.  I needed a simple ... http://www.ironmonkeyventures.com/blog/2009/02/tweetlnkscom-links-in-your-twitter-feed/ I was traveling quite a bit for work, and there was no easy way to check my flight status.  The blackberry browser does not work with most airline and flight info service websites. The last thing I need to do is sign up for more alerts and services. So I wrote this ... http://www.ironmonkeyventures.com/blog/2009/01/myflightinfo-takes-off/ After completing MapMyTweeps, I started looking into next "degree" of mapping my network (friends of friends, friends' followers etc) to look for any interesting information. Here is my first rendering of my Twitter network.  It maps my first 100 followers, for each of my followers it maps 3 of their followers, ... http://www.ironmonkeyventures.com/blog/2009/01/the-next-iteration-of-network-mapping/ I halved the average load time by using multi curl to pull data.  10 seconds for the first time user instead of over 20. I'm satisfied for today. http://www.ironmonkeyventures.com/blog/2009/01/mapmytweeps-version-02/ Here are two well-known (at least based on my friends both on twitter and my off-line friends) brands. Both @StockTwits and @Shakeshack auto-follow, so it’s a good example of the mapping of their respective followers. @stocktwits - strong US following, especially along the East Coast and a good showing in Europe. @shakeshack - ... http://www.ironmonkeyventures.com/blog/2008/12/stocktwits-and-shakeshack-maps/ Here is my map of my twitter follower and friends Check out the map of my tweeps. I’m very concentrated in the US as you can see. The next photo shows more detail of my follwers and the people I follow. There’s obvious concentration on the East and West coasts, but there’s an interesting ... http://www.ironmonkeyventures.com/blog/2008/12/map-my-tweeps/ I was interested in seeing the geographical diversity of my Twitter friends and followers. I finally found this Yahoo Pipe by Andy M called Twitter Friends, but it wasn’t everything I was looking for. I wanted to combine both on a single map with different colors and also show mutual following relationships.  ... http://www.ironmonkeyventures.com/blog/2008/12/beta-launch-of-mapmytweeps/ Too bad it's such a short promotion. http://mycorporation.com/freeday/?cid=web_intuit_hp_hero_ffad http://www.ironmonkeyventures.com/blog/2008/11/mycorporation-is-waiving-149-service-fee-on-corps-and-llcs-today-only/