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Texas Hold’em Game Tonight in Portland

Portland Election Parties

The PDXPipeline has a great list of election watch parties in Portland. Here’s a sample… The Laurelhurst Theater, located at 2735 E Burnside St, Portland, Oregon 97214. Living Room Theater/Theatre located at 341 SW 10th Avenue. Check out the West Cafe located at1201 SW Jefferson. Doug Fir Lounge located at 830 E. Burnside, 97214 which starts at 6:00.

My Favorite Community Building Wordpress Plugins

Recently I have building several new blogs that are community focused and local. I have found myself looking around for some new WordPress Plugins that make the community a little more friendly and customized. Here’s a few that I found worthwhile to install: The Binary Moon Custom Admin Login Plugin Binary Moon’s plugin allows you to easily customize your [...]

Protect your brand: Check your UserName at 68 web 2.0 sites

It’s pretty darned important to take your name, company name, and brand names at popular web 20 sites.  Why?  Well, its simple, if you don’t someone else will and even worse, they will control the message and branding that the page has, and it won’t always be positive. Take a few minutes to check out a [...]

I was quoted on CNN TV today - thanks twitter!

Thats right, CNN quoted me and put it on their TV channel today… I sat down to eat lunch this afternoon and flipped on the TV to see what was going on in the stock market.  On CNN, Treasury Secretary Paulson was speaking, and CNN was following it live.  All of sudden, on the right half [...]

SEMPDX October Hot Seat - Hear me speak!

Tuesday, October 14th, SEMpdx will be holding their October Hot Seat Event, of which I’ll be on the panel.  Come check out a “Back to Basics” event, highlighting the fundamentals that every website needs to have.  The panel is jam packed, Scott Hendison, Scott Fish (myself), David Mihm, and Leisa Hall. Event Details: Location: Hotel deLuxe Address: 729 [...]

Hotel & Hospitality Conferece - Hear me speak!

This week I’ll be traveling to San Francisco to speak at the E-Tourism Summit, which will be October 1-2 at the Hotel Nikko.  This event will be a lot of fun and should be great for networking! Topics of discussion will be search marketing, e-mail marketing, dynamic packaging, third-party booking engines, affiliate programs, research-based Web design [...]

SAO September Tech Pub in Corvallis Today

Today is the Software Association of Oregon’s September Tech Pub, which features a Hot Seat event, modeled after the SEMpdx Hot Seat Events.  I’ll be on the panel in Corvallis along with other SEO professionals in Oregon: Andre Jensen and Lisa Williams. Agenda: 5:30 - 6:15: Business Networking Time with finger food, no host bar 6:15 - 6:30: [...]

Looking for a Bright MBA Grad in Portland?

Search Fest 2009 - Danny Sullivan Keynote Speaker

California Earthquake: LA Rocked by 5.8 Earthquake

A strong earthquake shook Southern California on Tuesday, and the jolt was felt from Los Angeles to San Diego, and slightly in Las Vegas. Preliminary information from the U.S. Geological Survey estimated the quake at magnitude 5.8, centered 29 miles east-southeast of downtown Los Angeles near Chino Hills in San Bernardino County.   Follow the news on [...]

Oklahoma City Thunder - Team Name Announced

An Oklahoma City media outlet, KOCO-TV, has reported the city’s relocated NBA team will be named the Oklahoma City Thunder for the 2008-09 season. The “Thunder,” formerly the Seattle SuperSonics, are in the middle of a full-scale move from the Northwest to Oklahoma. According to KOCO.com, the NBA’s Internet division — through CSC Corporate Domains — [...]

BrowseRank - Microsoft’s Answer to PageRank

Microsoft thinks that they have the answer to PageRank, by releasing a new concept called BrowseRank.  From the researcher’s paper about BrowseRank… We propose computing page importance by using a ’user browsing graph’ created from user behavior data. In this graph, vertices represent pages and directed edges represent transitions between pages in the users’ web browsing [...]

Mastering the Google Content Network

Canada Community Generates 90% of Power Via Solar

Propeller Relaunch Fails Miserably

Propeller.com, Aol’s 2nd try at social media, after netscape.com was thrown into the dupster, relaunched today with a new look and feel. Miserably Failure isn’t only being used to describe the old-school “google bomb” any more. Here’s the home page of Propeller.com right now: So what are others saying? Top Story on New Propeller Says it All - There [...]

Moniker Releases Affiliate Summit Domain List

Google Adding a Feather to their cap: Digg.com

Google is reportedly in talks with Digg (again) to acquire the social news site.  Google would be adding a very nice addition to their Google News property that was recently touted as being worth nearly $100 million by Google’s VP, Marissa Mayer.  Currently Google news shows no ads, will that change with a digg integration? [...]

It doesn’t add up WaMu, Fannie & Freddie, Wachovia

Apple’s Stock getting Hammered in After Hours Trading

Macintosh and iPod sales helped boost Apple Inc.’s fiscal third-quarter earnings 31 percent, beating Wall Street’s expectations, but investors pummeled the stock after Apple said profit margins contracted and the company issued soft guidance for the current quarter. Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple said Monday it earned $1.07 billion, or $1.19 per share, 11 cents ahead of Wall [...]

Rush of wind power to hit the Northwest

Utilities and independent developers are poised to more than triple the amount of wind power in the Northwest, a huge increase that underscores the region’s push for renewable energy. “It’s phenomenal,” said Elliot Mainzer, a transmission manager with the federal Bonneville Power Administration. “It’s more than we expected.” Evidence of the wind rush shows up in a [...]

Think Our Inflation is bad: Zimbabwe releases $100 Billion bank note

Seriously… what would you buy with $100 Billion? Well, you could buy a Lexus or put a down payment on a house, the $USD equivalent is about $50,000 Grand. Zimbabwe will introduce a $100-billion bank note as the nation continues to struggle with the world’s highest inflation rate. The latest addition to the country’s currency will begin circulating [...]

Deal of the Day: Buying Nob Hill for $4 bucks

This evening I completed the purchase of NobHill.info for a whole $4 bucks. I’m not a huge .info fan but when I saw that this geo-neighborhood domain was in a list for $4 domains, I had to grab it. Nob Hill is a district in San Francisco, but it’s also home to some of the richest and [...]

Investing in POT

Lost in yesterday’s excitement was news that Canpotex [remember - that is an alliance of Potash (POT), Mosaic (MOS), and Agrium (AGU)] has raised spot prices for some Asian buyers to $1000/tonne. The Russians have joined as well. Notice a trend I hope? [Mar 27: Canpotex Potash Contracts Secured with India @ $625] [Apr 2: Potash Makers [...]

Watching More Videos Online

Comscore just said that Americans watched 12 billion videos in May, up 45 percent over last year. Say that again: 12 billion. It’s a mass medium, still: the mass of niches comes to life. Some more video stats: Google has a 35 percent market share. Fox is a very distant second with 6.4 percent. Hulu debuts [...]