Overhaulin
I plan on expanding this blog into a full website within the next few days so I can have room to host projects like the cloaker I've mentioned in previous posts as well as other stuff. This blog format is just too narrow and I want to have room for other areas of interest sooo, big update and a new look coming soon.
Killers on the loose
I've been reading a lot lately about how <hot new app> is the <hot old app> killer. Yahoo has tied together some of the features of its recent acquisitions to create a new and improved search. It may become more popular than the old Yahoo, but it's not a Google killer. There is also a new site called Fav.or.it. It's sort of a mashup of feeds, comments and user blogging under subdomains and Techcrunch is asking if it could be a Digg killer. Will Fav.or.it be a Digg killer? Probably not, but what do I know? Digg is so entrenched, I don't think they'll go down that easily.
By the way Fav.or.it is accepting blog submissions to be aggregated by them when they launch. The first 1000 blogs to be submitted in 10 Technorati ranking will be entered so hurry up if you want to get in. 
Giving people a reason to come back
My uncle knows I make money online and he apparently has been reading about others who do the same. Recently he bought a domain name and told me he had big plans for it. Of course I asked how. He said he was going to put nothing but ads on the page. I thought he was kidding, but he wasn't. I tried to explain that, for ads to be profitable, he needed traffic and for traffic he needs to give people a reason to read his site on a regular basis. Then he said he was going to offer free ads to get people to come. This is where I sort of gave up because he still doesn't quite get it. He's probably known about this making money online game for a couple weeks and he made the most common mistake thinking that if you build it they will come. I finally convinced him to at least put up a free classifieds script so there's some actual content and a reason for people to be on the site. So I'm going to be doing that much for him, but I don't have the time to really put much more into his site. Besides, I have a solid classifieds domain name I plan on developing soon so I'll be putting all my creative marketing juice toward my own site.
If you're wondering what reason I'm giving people to return to my blog, it's not just my ramblings and random tips; I also plan on making some of my different SEO related software available for free and it will be released on this site. I don't hype it up because it's going to be free and there's no reason to. If people want it, they can have it. If they'd rather pay someone else for the same things that probably does less, more power to them. It won't matter to me either way. More on this in the near future...
20 dollars off at Godaddy
Enter "Catalog5" as the promo/source code and get $20 off purchases of $75 or more for a limited time. I got the promo code from a flyer in the mail today, but I don't plan on buying anything there any time soon.
Advanced photo resizing
I generally prefer to blog about SEO and marketing type things, but this is too cool to pass up. A computer science major in Israel has developed a new way of resizing, cropping and manipulating photos. You have to watch the video to get a sense of how cool this is. I would like to see something like this in Photoshop. Although it would be pretty handy to have in a web browser, I don't think that will be happening for a long time.
First post
Soooo, this is my first post of the new blog. I've had small blogs in niche subject before, but they were just for fun and they've mostly withered away. This blog is going to be my main blog from here out and the subjects will be mostly SEO, marketing, etc tips as well as anything else I feel like sharing or think others may find useful. I *plan* on posting here a lot and I look forward to any feedback and discussions in the future.