It is the end of an era as far as internet marketing is considered. MarketLeap.com has offered a much valued and powerful suite of tools for search engine analysis that are being discontinued. I must admit it has been a few many months that I have used the service and I was unaware they had plans to abandon it.

MarketLeap was there back in 1999 when I needed a tool to compare links to and research keywords online. I used it with much respect for years and was actually sad to see it go when I logged in today and the tools where down. They suggest to try the tools at SeoMOZ but I will in fact miss the great reports at MarketLeap.com

Search Engine Marketing Services – Marketleap: Trust, Search, Succeed

As of November 15, 2009 all free Marketleap.com tools will be discontinued. We would like to thank you for the years of devotion to our tools and recommend the following sites as resources for viable replacements: SEObook.com, SEOMoz.com.
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Lifestream is a wordpress plugin which allows me to link all of my social networks and the activity in each account to my blog with a page to display a summary of my actions. My Lifestream is published here and contains my Facebook, MySpace, del.icio.us, Mixx, Magnolia, YouTube, StumbleUpon and the many other social services I now have. Just listig them all has reminded me that i need to update a few of my profiles with the latest information.

Whats the reason for this? Well I’m interested in using this blog as an announcement platform for a social marketing service I want to build and I am linking this blog up to all of my social networks. I am hoping to develop a port of this blog to be used for music promotion and band management. I have a number of artists who have asked me to develop an online promotion tool and this is part of that. So look for more blog posts each day with an update of my social network activity. This may be a big part of my blogging on this site for awhile. Enjoy!

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I’ve been using Google News alerts for years now and I guess alot of people should know about them but it occurred to me that I should drop a short post on how cool it is to News Alerts for all sorts of things. You can set an alert for any keyword you want and use the email updates for article ideas like I do for each topic I cover in my blog network.

I use the alerts on sites related to Zune and other gadgets, Jamaica and Negril specifically as well as to search for things like my own name, my company name and the name of some other companies that I track. I use an alert to notify me of new links found to a number of my sites and I also use them to track some of my favorite topics such as search marketing, blogging and george bush.

I also use my iGoogle homepage to track some of my favorite subject and the numerous RSS feeds I read for article ideas. It’s helps me organize my favorite content and post articles faster when I’m ready to write.

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I own and manage a portfolio of over 500 domains many of which I have owned since 2002 or before. I bought my first domain in 1999 and over those years I have lost, traded or sold quite a few. If someone asked me what my business was I would say I am a domain investor first and site developer second. I began building websites just to pay for the domains I wanted to buy.

At one point in 2003 I discovered lots of traffic in domains with trademarks. I bought some domains like uhaulrental.com and rydermovingtrucks.com and built some websites on them. I scored big on the traffic but lost it all when the domains were taken from me by the trademark owners. I was wrong and I never even bothered to answer the complaint because I knew I was wrong.

Since then I no longer purchase domains with obvious trademarks in them but that has not stopped me from running into people that claim I am infringing on their trademarks with the use of my domains. In the 5 cases I can think of specifically each and every time someone cried to me about using their trademark in my domain I politely reminded them that having a trademark on a word doesn’t mean they own the word. I still have the rights to use any word I wish in any business class I wish so long as I don’t infringe on their actual trademark claims. You’ll be surprised at how many trademark holders are unaware of just what their trademark is and what it means.

Of these five cases each made the right choice and negotiated a price by which I would transfer the domain to them. The last two cases I dealth with the trademark holders legal team and it made things easier actually. There is now a new case related to a health domain I own and I’m dealing with the owner direct. The trademark holder owns KeywordDomainUSA.com where I own the KeywordDomain.com minus the USA. Why someone would bother to trademark the USA version without at least trying to buy the KeywordDomain alone makes little sense to me but so do most people with stupid trademarks and no idea how or why to enforce them.

I’m trying to get this guy to realize his best move is to make me an offer and that by fighting me all he does is risk losing any chances at the domain and more likely he will cost his company $1500 or more in fees to the WIPO and his lawyers. Any suggestions on how to convince them to just pay up and not fight it?

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I’m always interested in new things and new technologies and I’ve heard a lot about Ruby on Rails or RoR as many call it. Ruby on Rails is an open source web framework that according to their site has been optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity. I don’t know much about it but I have seen some great websites built with Ruby on Rails and I have become intrigued by what it offers. I even went so far as to find a Ruby on Rails developer in the Central Florida with the idea that I may drop in one day and talk to a develper about some ideas I have for this site as well as our moving company services.

Atlantic Dominion Solutions has a great website with quite a bit if information on RoR including an impressive portfolio of sites they have designed and developed. If you are looking for a Ruby on Rails development team it looks like this might be the company for you. They do offer a wider variety of web development services besides RoR. You can read more at their website TechCFL.com

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ADS began in June of 2000 as Hired Gun, LLC., with the purpose of providing a one-stop shop of IT services. After creating a few web applications in PHP, and desktop applications in VB, we decided that creating software was a lot more fun and rewarding than fixing computers.

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I have begun to really consider my use of open source software and my desire to go totally open source at some point in the future. I’m planning a working vacation to Jamaica beginning on June 1 and I planned to take a computer with me to show some kids how to build webpages and put themselves and their communities on the web. I’d like to grab a few dozen cheap digital cameras and turn them all into vloggerrs but that’s another dream.

For now I think I plan to show them some basic web access and development using open source tools such as OpenOffice.org and NVU HTMl editor. I think a basic intro to web browsing with Firefox and the use of extensions will for the base and then I’ll show them some basic coding with the html from websites we visit. The whole idea has me thinking about my move from Microsoft based operating system to a free OS like Ubuntu. I really want to learn more and offer a totally open source development platform for my business but I think I’ll need a windows machine for quite some time just to cover some of my windows software needs for the office.

Any thoughts on a Ubuntu laptop for my business needs?

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Surfing the web is no longer a hobby for many of us and has become a necessary tool in our home. Internet service has become another utility to be paid each moneth liker electricity and water. It’s inevitable in most households in the UK and most major cities that you have internet service but the rise in available bandwidth has made it much easier for most of us to access the web using high speed or broadband internet access and high speed access services are the fasting growing portion of internet service providers. Finding a internet service provider that offers reliable adsl broadband internet access in the United Kindgom just got easier with this new easy to use broadband provider comparison service offered at BroadbandSuppliers.co.uk.

Their useful website has the top broadband internet servidce proividers and their top internet access plans laid out in an easy to understand table that allows you to compare UK broadband services and pick the right broadband plan for your internet needs. Not all broadband service providers are alike and finding the best service provider for your applications is quick and simple with this comparative tool. They offer broadband service reviews of top plans such as those from AOL broadband, Orange Broadband and many more.

If you’re just looking for the best deal on cheap broadband internet access then you need look no further because the list all the top plans in the UK. Find the best broadband company and cheap broadband internet services in the UK with BroadbandSuppliers.co.uk.

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I think we all know we should do it but truthfully how many of us bother to properly back up our important data on a regular schedule? I have dabbled with data backups since I began using a PC over 10 years ago now and to this day i do not maintaining regular backup schedule or replication in my backup system. My backup solution consists of a mix of data solutions. I have about 30 GB of content that I have copied over to multiple hard drives on my home network that keeps current copies of my important data based on scripts that I run on  my PC occasionally.

I also have a collection of CD and DVD backups with large amounts of older data like my picture collections and software I have installed in the past. I seem to have a lot of junk data I like to keep around including legacy applications that I will most likely never use but seem to have the need to keep for some reason. All these different backup solutions has become a hassle and I am considering moving to a new online backup service from iBackup.com

The IBackup Online Storage solution offers award winning performance in the webs best selection of features which enables their small business customers to get enterprise-class protection for their mission critical data at a fraction of competitors costs. IBackup.com and their Online Storage services provide an industry leading feature-set for the most secure online storage including professional level Network Drive, Sharing, Collaboration, Sub-Accounts, WebFolders and Mobile Access.

I’m hopeful that they offer the online storage and backup solution my business needs.

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Bookmark Base is a powerful bookmark manager aimed for advanced Internet users. It allows user to keep bookmarks in browser-independent way and import&export them within all popular browsers. Bookmark Base silently removes all duplicates from its database and checks all bookmarks for validity (‘dead’ links).

Bookmark Base supports Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Seamonkey, Opera and K-meleon browsers; Bookmark Base version 2 supports importing and exporting to XBEL file format which is commonly used in Web- and Mac-based bookmark managing tools. This makes your bookmarks even more portable than ever with Bookmark Base!

Its special feature is portability. It means that this piece of software can be carried from one PC to another (using USB stick or iPod) without any restrictions and glitches. User will be equipped with beloved bookmarks on any Windows XP (and Windows Vista!) computer.

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