Monthly Archives: May 2009

Fastest Top Five FREE Ways to Gain New Traffic

Today’s article is going to discuss my top 5 ways to gain new traffic, did I mention that they are all FREE! Because each are free, they all take a few minutes of work on a regular basis. After a short while, you should hopefully gain a following and not require doing them anymore.

The top 5 reasons are:

  1. Submit your content to social network sites
  2. Share your content with article directories
  3. Create a Twitter following
  4. Submit to Blog Carnivals
  5. Comment on other relevant blogs or forums

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Photobucket, Photos, and You

It seems like photo sharing and social network applications are the in thing right now. Let’s take advantage of this. Today I will provide a simple class that will allow you to post photos to a user’s Photobucket account in minutes.

Step 1: Visit http://photobucket.com/developer/register to register for an API key

Follow the steps to create a new application on Photobucket. When you have finished, Photobucket will send you an email with your API and Secret key. Keep this email for later use.

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Facebook, Photos, and You!

The Facebook Application API is quite extensive and allows you to get and set many different aspects of a user’s Facebook information.

Today, we are going to discuss using the Facebook API to create an album, if it doesn’t already exist, and add a photo to that album. Read more »

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Creating your first iGoogle Gadget

Recently at work, we’ve started diving into Google Gadgets.  They are quite fun and really extremely easy to build.  In this article, I’m going to get you started creating your very own Google Gadget.

Sit back and reserve a few minutes of your time and you will be well on your way in no time! Read more »

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Bebo Development Scares Me

Today at work, we’ve begun looking into creating some Bebo applications.  I know it’s a bit behind in the times, but we’ve been busy with Facebook, iPhone, and Google Gadgets.  It’s now time to sink our teeth into Bebo.

I spent about 30 minutes setting up Bebo and reviewing a simple three step process to setup external authentication and it didn’t work!  Not only that, when I went to download the API I had to actually right-click and choose “Save As” because it just loaded the whole API as text in my browser.  Talk about a shotty setup.

The API download problems aside, let me tell you more about my authentication problem.  The three step example I followed is from this URL here: http://www.bebo.com/docs/auth Read more »

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setTimeout() vs setInterval() in Javascript

It feels like it has been a lifetime since my last blog!  I must apologize for the long delay, but between finding the time and finding a good topic to blog about, it’s being difficult.

In today’s article, it’s been a while since I’ve needed to use either the setTimeout or setInterval functions and it seems many people are not familiar with the setInterval function.

Let’s start by describing the two. Read more »

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