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The Apple Room: Kathleen Anderson posted a link

Dock Pillows

November 1 at 2:01 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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Apps: Russellreno posted a link

Blip.fm | What are you listening to?

October 19 at 6:42 am - via Reshare - Link

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"I've used Pandora, Last.fm, Mufin and some others but I keep coming back to Blip.fm" - Russellreno

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♥ - Esther Rudolph

last.fm is still my favorite. but i use blip.fm and hypem.com as well and scrobble to last.fm. in fact i use anything that will scrobble to last.fm. - Lynne d Johnson

ok, who actually uses this? And can you please explain how it actually works...Do you have to type in what you're actually listening to?? - Zee from WeDoCreative

Zee - I use blip nearly every day. It's awesome. It integrates seeqpod (I think) and you "blip" (like tweet) songs with a little message too. The interface lets you listen to all tracks in a similar way to favtape. - Matt Harwood

Last.fm is my favorite for keeping track of my friends' listening habits, music discovery and listening to internet radio, but I love blip.fm for giving me a way to tweet and ff out what i'm listening to and to instantly hear what my friends are listening to. - Mattie Kenny

Last.fm tracks my listening habits. blip.fm allows me to pull up any song I'm thinking of and post it somewhere. You can also create a playlist. And it all (for the most part) can be made part of your last.fm stats via the aforementioned scrobbling functions. - Helen Sventitsky

before blip.fm i used twittytunes (i still use it), it's a firefox addon. while i'm listening to itunes and scrobbling to last.fm, i can send a tweet of what i'm listening to with twittytunes. i think bc of this blip.fm hasn't wowed me yet, other than being able to listen to friends' playlists. - Lynne d Johnson

hey - that's really interesting Lynne. thank you. - Zee from WeDoCreative

Lynne - I used to use twittytunes but then when I upgraded my FF, the plugin didn't work anymore and I never bothered to add it. You bring up a very good point. - Mattie Kenny

Shabby Chic: fiona gallop posted a link

The French Furniture Company’s Blog is quality over quantity and tackles such subjects as Care Tips for painted furniture , information on conduction techniques though to back ground of shabby chic and Recycling. Very informative and sometimes quite funny . They Call it "news and Views"...

September 29 at 10:51 am - Link

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Hi Fiona, welcome to the room. I think you meant to link to the blog though not the showroom. - Linda

Shabby Chic: an entry from Shabby Chic Furniture

Shabby Chic Cottage Chair with Roses

October 5 at 2:31 am - Link

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Andy Roberts posted a link

Organic Boxes Beat the Credit Crunch! | Organic Boxes

September 28 at 2:23 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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"Organic Boxes - 5 ways they save you money Organic boxes are one way of continuing to eat well whilst still saving a few pounds." - Andy Roberts via Bookmarklet

Andy Roberts posted a message on Twitter

“I hope the fox cubs don't wake us up at 4.00am again tonight, strangling squirrels or whatever it is that makes such a din.”

September 26 at 3:44 pm - Link

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Andy Roberts: an entry from Andy Roberts email podcast photo music and video blog on Posterous

Wizz Jones resumes gigs

September 23 at 10:41 am - Link

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I'd love t see Wizz and Simeon but not sure how to get to Tooting and back from here for an evening - Andy Roberts

Leave gig at 11.15 walk to Tooting Broadway >Northern Line from Tooting >Moorgate>walk or Circle/Ham & City >Liverpool st> Home around 20 past 12 - Linda

ok thursday 30th October then - Andy Roberts

Amy Palko published photos on Flickr

September 22 at 10:07 am - Link

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*Tech in Europe [TinE]: Zee from WeDoCreative posted a link

Walkers Crisps does Social Media

September 22 at 7:47 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

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The crisp giant is asking us, the people, to come up with new flavours of crisps. The winner gets £50K and 1% share of the profits!! - Zee from WeDoCreative via Bookmarklet

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I want 50k! - Toby Graham

it's not a bad little earner - Zee from WeDoCreative

sod the 50k, the 1% of profits sounds yummie... lemmie see, roast tiger and grated, seasoned giant squid. Quite a delicacy amongst republicans from alaska I hear ;) - alphaxion

+1 Alphaxion - Zee from WeDoCreative

Andy Roberts posted a message on Twitter

“It's pirate day so let me say this to you all: "Why don' ee all juss Fug aRRRRF" That's better.”

September 19 at 4:44 am - Link

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Apps: Mona N. posted a link

Funky Ways to Express Yourself - BeFunky

September 18 at 10:39 pm - via Reshare - Link

Helen Sventitsky, Far, LouCypher and 6 other people liked this

Mona, thanks for this find, have not known about the app and totally in love with my cartoonized picture, will probably replace my photos with that one over the weekend even. - Svetlana Gladkova via twhirl

*Tech in Europe [TinE]: Zee from WeDoCreative posted a link

Credit Crunch Pricing - Free Internet and Coffee! | crackunit.com

September 15 at 7:28 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

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The economies of the world may be crumbling, but on Brick Lane you can now get Free Coffee and Internet. We’ll be OK. - Zee from WeDoCreative via Bookmarklet

offer free alcohol and they have me as a visitor ;) - alphaxion

Mindy Koch posted an entry on coComments by mindykoch

» (What If I Told You the Truth?)

September 4 at 9:05 am - Link

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this was a great post wasn't it - Linda

30DC for the UK: Dominic Goucher posted a message

“Hi folks, Andy Roberts invited me to join the group. Had a great time meeting some of you at the London meetup on Sunday (I was the guy with the video camera - I posted the video in the forums) . Hope to meet up with some of you again soon.”

September 2 at 10:53 am - Link

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Hi Dominic, welcome to the group. I liked your video. Shame I didn't get chance to say hello on Sunday. I favourited some of your flickr screen shots from the meet-up. Are you up for October 5th? - Linda

Amy Palko stumbled upon a site on StumbleUpon

Wondras - Home

September 2 at 2:31 pm - Link

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From the page: "Wondras provides a unique website experience, allowing free download of a wide variety of high quality video clips and photographs of Scotland's towns, cities and major tourist destinations. For the first time, viewers can see the 'real Scotland' rather than polished tourist images, thus providing the perfect portal for would-be tourists and interested individuals. " - Amy Palko

theatre breaks: an entry from Coloured Lights

Recommended website: BlueGobo.com

September 2 at 5:30 am - Link

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lots of original broadway production vids + you can embed them. Could be useful - Linda

Andy Roberts posted a message on Twitter

“Loving September, my second favourite month. Sneaked in a late bbq yesterday, off to NE Scotland later. Plenty to look forward to.”

September 2 at 1:08 am - Link

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Thirty Day Challenge: Sam Sotiropoulos posted a message

“Big thanks to Ed, Dan, Guru Bob and all the rest of the 30DC team!”

September 1 at 8:51 am - Link

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I second that!! Great Job, Thank you all! - Justin

Thanks so much, AWESOMENESS, i love the 30DC - laleh

Agreed. That was a good year that was. - Andy Roberts

The teaching videos were fantastic this year, specially Gurubob and Caro - Linda

Amy Palko posted an entry on Less Ordinary

10 Tips For Adding A Splash of Colour

August 28 at 6:54 am - Link

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Amy Palko stumbled upon a site on StumbleUpon

Abundance Blog - Marelisa Online & Blog Archive & 30 Ways to Increase Your Creativity

August 27 at 1:46 am - Link

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A great list of creativity boosts. Here's one of my favourites: "Make a habit of using your imagination." - Amy Palko

I liked the list of creativity locks - some of them were so familiar! - Linda

Thirty Day Challenge: David Lemberg posted a link

My first ezine article! Thank you 30DC and friendfeed roommates!

August 26 at 8:33 am - Link

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It's great to get an ezine article published. Mine was rejected the first time, then went through at second attempt. I'm not sure if you're targetting "total lifetime fitness" or "Fitness in Your Fifties" phrases or just trying to make a general promotion, which may well work for you, I don't know it's just that the zeitgeist seems to be that phrases are everything so if you accept that you'd need to pick one and focus on it exclusively. - Andy Roberts

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I really liked your e-zine, nodded along thinking "Oh yes, that's right" . I felt so drawn in I clicked through. But then felt really lost on your blog. It doesn't seem a very welcoming place for the sort of person who would appreciate your e-zine. - Linda

Hi, Linda - Thanks for your note. Would you say more about "not welcoming". So far my site is not targeted for 50s-plus, but rather for everyone interested in fitness, nutrition, exercise, and wellness. Pretty broad brush. - David Lemberg

Hi David, I agree with Linda. Being over 50 and somewhat 'sluggish', I identified with your article but the blog seemed more like magazine - lots of info but not very personable. You need to put more of yourself into it. - Glenna

Thanks, Glenna! I greatly appreciate your feedback. My habitual style is to write in third person. I can see the value for the reader in a blog having a strong first person component - thank you! - David Lemberg

What do you think about the phrases? - Andy Roberts

Andy - Thanks for asking. For "lifetime fitness" - as a broad match the site is #35 of 750,000. As a phrase match, #25 out of 450,000. Want to get on the first page. Planning to research other phrases and optimize for them. BTW, had 102 hits on the ezine article yesterday with 13 clickthroughs (at least 2 were from 30DC-ers). - David Lemberg

I think Glenda's right, blogging isn't like magazine writing. You need to put more of you into it. It's hard at first if you're used to the 3rd person thing. I find imagining that I'm actually talking to a friend about the subject rather than addressing an anonymous group helps. - Linda

Hi David, I'd be happy to help bookmark/link to your site to help you get to the front page ... - Josh Greene

Hi, Josh - Please go ahead and link to my site - thank you! What do you have going? Possibly I could link to yours. - David Lemberg

30DC for the UK: Tiptopcat posted a message

“Hi, there. Hope you don't mind a new member from London.”

August 24 at 8:40 am - Link

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Cool, we're in London too. How are you finding the challenge so far? - Linda

Rebecca Briggs dugg a story on Digg

Sleep Good Tonight!

August 20 at 11:13 pm - Link

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you selling organic buckwheat pillows for 30dc Rebecca :-D - Marysia

cool idea, nice site too :-) - Linda

Thirty Day Challenge: John W. Serra posted a message

“Ok... I'm having to start over w/ diff niche. No complaint, just wanted to mention how valueable it is to know when to cut your losses...”

August 20 at 9:25 pm - Link

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In the past, I have been known for taking a project way too far... - John W. Serra

I want to find another niche, too. Will find it soon, I hope. - Rebecca Briggs

Well done for making that hard choice. I wasted a lot of money with IMC a couple of years ago chasing a niche that did not exist - Neil Campbell via twhirl

30DC for the UK: Andy Roberts posted a message

“Market Samurai Update”

August 21 at 12:11 am - Link

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"===New Features: Regional Organic and Adwords Traffic Data=== In addition to improving the way Market Samurai gathers keyword synonym and traffic data, there's something new in Market Samurai v0.60 Market Samurai now gathers country-specific organic and adwords traffic data for your keywords. To find out the traffic levels for your keywords Internationally, or within a single specific country, create a new project and change your regional settings in the settings area of Market Samurai." - Andy Roberts

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This is good news but I don't know what you have to do to get the UK search competition analysis. I've updated MS, trashed all my project files, emptied the cache, created new project with region set to UK and I'm still getting totally US based results. Support ticket submitted. - Andy Roberts

A prompt reply from Brent at MS support: "Data from the SEO Competition area will still show you international results. UK-specific SEO results hasn't been implemented yet, only UK-specific keyword data." - Andy Roberts

it's a start. You can always use SEO for FireFox for the page 1 competition. Not as visual perhaps but still a very useful tool. - Linda

Thank you Andy (and Linda) for this helpful info - it saved me going down the same path! A constant issue with all the IM tools and courses is how to adapt to UK/European markets. Perhaps the meetup and some longer-term collaboration would help all of us. - amanda

I'd like to think so Amanda. The London meetup is on 31st August, probably at the Apple Store, Regent Street. This 30DC_for_the_UK friendfeed room will also stay open for organising collaborations afterwards, as an ongoing resource and meeting point for UK 30DCers. - Andy Roberts

Market Samurai, Is going to be a Niche Bot beater, far easier to manage and control. I love the fact that it runs on Adobe Air, plus the updates are as an American would say "Pretty Awesome!" - Steve Williams

I really feel i need to say this: I have several .co.uk domains, Google sees them as UK when I look in the webmaster tools. But I still get well over 70% us visitors, so it's a good idea to cater to them as well in some way at least - after all, they are the biggest market there is. - Frann Leach

You've said this several times already Fran, I wonder why you feel the need to raise it again. Can you see that for some UK specific niches US traffic isn't relevant at all and can actually be detrimental? You get 70% of your traffic from the US so you do need to take that into account but not everyone does. - Linda

Is this an AIR app?! Very cool. - Ryan Stewart

Yes Air seems to be a stable platform, certainly for Mac. Have you tried tweetdeck? - Andy Roberts

Yup, I work for Adobe. It's cool to find AIR applications I hadn't seen before. - Ryan Stewart

seoc not operational yet guys - Gordon Martin

Allegedly regional competition data is operational with today's update. Anybody tested yet? - Andy Roberts

Thirty Day Challenge: Tim posted a link

Great Post

August 18 at 4:33 am - Link

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Steve Williams posted a message on Twitter

“SEO is totally different in the UK to the USA”

August 12 at 11:18 am - Link

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My experience of the last year tells me this is so but I'd love to find out more. Any recommendations? - Linda

In what way? - Frann Leach

Andy Roberts: an entry from Andy Roberts email podcast photo music and video blog on Posterous

Cowbells at Reinosa | video by email

August 15 at 12:35 pm - Link

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Yes that's the one, it seemed much louder in real life. - Linda

I'm amazed i just happened to find it right there in my movies folder - Andy Roberts

Frann Leach favorited a video on YouTube

Bert Jansch, "It Don't Bother Me"

August 14 at 5:49 pm - Link

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Thirty Day Challenge: Tiffany Taunton posted a message

“New Avatar site: http://www.faceyourmanga.com. Also a flickr pool... http://flickr.com/groups/80407...”

August 14 at 6:58 am - Link

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