Brent's Daily Drive to Work Podcast

Seal of Approval for E-Commerce Transactions

dailydrive — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:12:05 +0000

Have an e-commerce website? SSL certificates are necessary for online transactions on your website. You spent the money on the certificate, so why not get the brownie points from your customers for it - make sure your customers see your SSL certificate seal on your website. After all, sometimes brownie points are paid with real dollars.

Banner Ad Birthday

dailydrive — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:24:50 +0000

The banner ad, the original online advertising, hits a milestone - 15 years since it first graced our screens. This is a reflective long back on the banner ad and what it currently means today in the crowded space of online advertising.

Click On Cliqset And Join the New Clique

dailydrive — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:56:35 +0000

Move over FriendFeed, here comes Cliqset. Not familiar with either? No problem, they are easy to use and worthwhile applications to set up an account with. For more information on Cliqset, just go to Cliqset.com.

Favicon - A Small Detail

dailydrive — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:50:29 +0000

Favicons are an often overlooked in the website development process - a small detail that has a big impact on the professional branding of your website. Listen to me babble my way through this podcast or check out an excellent blog post by a co-worker of mine on the subject (and where I stole the podcast idea from): http://www.netsourceblog.com/index.php/favicons-256-pixels-of-branding/

Raccoons, Chicken Coops, Websites and Browsers

dailydrive — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:46:25 +0000

“Help, there’s a raccoon in my browser!” - How to pro-actively keep your website free of varmints by checking the things that are behind the scenes that you don’t normally see.

How to Get an Invite to Google Wave

dailydrive — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:52:32 +0000

Google Wave will be released today - but only to 100,000 select few (kinda nice when you’re a big enough company that 100,000 is a ’select few’). How is Google selecting those 100,000 to send invitations too? Here is an the basic criteria. And for a general overview guide on what Google Wave is - click here.

Google Wave(s) Hello

dailydrive — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:57:59 +0000

Google Wave is slated to be released next week - will it live up to the hype or will it just be an over-sized ripple? Either way, it is an application that has potential to make our online communications easier.

Using Social Bookmarking Websites

dailydrive — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:47:34 +0000

Social bookmarking services such as Delicious.com can be useful for storing and sharing all your bookmarks. Free from your browser’s toolbar, you can access them anywhere and the social networking aspect of it allows you to use crowd-sourcing to find interesting links or to promote your own website or blog.

Pushing People’s Share Buttons

dailydrive — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:03:48 +0000

Good content deserves share buttons. Allow others to easily share your content online by adding share buttons and also get more backlinks to your site.

Overview of Cloud Computing

dailydrive — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:51:05 +0000

Cloud computing is a buzz word that has been around for awhile. Basic cloud computing has been around for many years, but the intend of the buzz word is geared towards a more elaborate use of it than we have now.

What’s Your Password?

dailydrive — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:41:34 +0000

Too many people use simple passwords to protect their valuable online accounts. If your password is “password” or “123456″ or some other obvious or simplistic word, then it is time to change it today!

A New Browser to Flock To

dailydrive — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:43:18 +0000

The browser wars are better than ever - with all the competition, there are a number of great browsers to choose from. If you like Firefox and you use a lot of social networking websites, then you need to try Flock.com.

My Friend Flickr vs My Picasa Pal

dailydrive — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:50:36 +0000

Online photo sharing is popular, and for good reason. Keep all your valuable photos online so you can access them anywhere. Upload business related photos to promote your products or services. Feed a Twitter or Facebook stream or blog entries. There are many uses. Here I side-by-side two of the most popular online photo sharing services - flickr.com and picasa.com.

Syncing Your E-Commerce Store to Quickbooks

dailydrive — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:13:28 +0000

If you are using the (excellent) shopping cart (with the boring name of) ProductCart by EarlyImpact, you can now synchronize your online data with your Quickbooks data.

Facebook Without All the Bloat

dailydrive — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:04:34 +0000

Like Facebook, but hate the bloated interface and the applications? Well, looks like they are planning a Lite version of their system that will have more of a stripped down Twitter-like feel to it. More of a direct assault on Twitter, or a step towards a FriendFeed integration - the company they acquired earlier in the week.

Facebook Gives Google Caffeine Jitters

dailydrive — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:39:30 +0000

After years of just saying “Google”, search engine competition is really heating up. Facebook shows it’s intent to crack the real-time search market by acquiring FriendFeed - a company of ex-Google engineers. Google counters with a preview of it’s new search engine which is code-named Caffeine.

Captcha’ing Spambots

dailydrive — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:55:01 +0000

You have a web form and you are getting a bunch of gibberish being submitted. What is it and what do you do about it? Sounds like a spambot, but is the cure worse for your business than the spambot itself?

Google Pitches Product Ads

dailydrive — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:44:10 +0000

Google is testing out a new advertising tool called Product Ads. If you have your products listed on Google Base, then you are eligible to try out this new offering.

Going Viral Without the Cooties

dailydrive — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:57:13 +0000

A huge spike in my blog traffic - what gives? I must be going viral?

The Changing World of Search

dailydrive — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:36:01 +0000

There is a lot of interesting changes going on in the world of search - it’s not just Google-oriented anymore. While Google still is in the driver’s seat, there’s a new wave of competition trying to flatten it’s tires.