Joe Grady Tuck Blog

These are my links for December 20th through January 4th:

• 70 top tips to generate blog traffic - 75 traffic generation techniques that I learned while blogging
• Display RSS Feeds - everything you need to display rss on your web page. Just plug in an rss feed and most of these will gen up code you can use on your web page or blog
• Tweetree - Home - Tweetree, a site that takes your Twitter account and tweaks it, just might be the reason you close that desktop client and return to the browser for your Twitter cravings. - mashable
• austinlifestyles’ favorites - Slideshow of my favorite pictures of Austin, Texas on flickr
• Austin Texas favorites on Flickr - My Austin, Texas favorite pictures from flickr . . . some pretty amazing stuff… recommended: run this as a slide show

These are my links for December 13th through December 17th:

• The Daily Beast - Tina Brown (formerly New Yorker editor) daily politics, culture and media
• CMS Showcase: 31 Remarkable Drupal Powered Websites - Six Revisions - From personal blogs and brochure sites, to fully-featured social networking sites, portals, news sites, and e-commerce websites, Drupal has proven itself as the most robust platform currently available in the content management system market.
• tweetworks - With groups and discussions, TweetWorks helps you get the most out of Twitter. How it works?
• iTweet 2 : Web - web interface to twitter, nice job
• 10 Great Thunderbird Addons You Must Have | MakeUseOf.com - More than a year back, Aibek wrote a great list of 35 must-have thunderbird addons. Since then, a lot of great addons have been created and some of the older addons have also evolved to become better ones.

These are my links for December 8th through December 9th:

• Going Green - Environmental Issues and Global Warming News - Green Living Tips - consumers guide to the green revolution
• Salon.com - Breaking news, opinion, politics, entertainment, sports and culture. - news source and cultural commentary, affiliated with the WELL
• Digg - All News, Videos, & Images - Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted on by users
• Daily Kos: State of the Nation - Daily Kos has grown in those five years to the premier political community in the United States, with daily traffic between 2-4 million visits. Markos Moulitsas — a.k.a. “kos” — created Daily Kos on May 26, 2002
• Balsamiq Mockups Examples | Balsamiq - cool little mockup program to sketch out websites
• Profilactic.com - springnet’s lifestream - profilactic collects all your social network content, blog posts, etc in one place

These are my links for November 24th through December 7th:

• Whatever - interesting, funny daily blog - Whatever - Taunting the Tauntable since 1998 John Scalzi, Proprietor
• Gmail - Inbox- walhus@gmail.com - my gmail inbox
• Delicious - delicious main page
• near:”Austin, Texas” within:50mi - Twitter Search - Austin, Texas realtime twitter search within 50 miles of Austin, Texas 50 results
• Facebook | Home - facebooks live realtime feed, watch it refresh continually in realtime
• Home - FriendFeed - Real-time - friendfeed on steroids, real time view of your friends updates
• Plaxo - Home - plaxo would get a good review from me if it didn’t continually scramble up my contacts. Plaxo is a mess. It could be great if they fixed it.
• springnet’s daily Bookmarks on Delicious - sites to look at on a daily basis … for a more narrow selection see http://del.icio.us/springnet/primo for the best daily sites
• Facebook | Home - number one social network with tons of cool apps, you could almost make it your blog if it were more public
• iGoogle - google’s start page you can personalize with widgets and content
• Twitter Search - best twitter search, let’s you search by geographic area in advanced search
• Reva Bhalla on CNN -
• Reva Bhalla - This Austin international security expert has made some of the most intelligent comments on the situation in Mumbai India with the terror attacks on the Taj Mahal Hotel and other sites
• Swaine’s World - Michael Swaine added me as a friend on facebook and I was amazed to find that he lives in Grants Pass, Oregon and has written some remarkable books like “Fire in the Valley”

These are my links for November 16th through November 23rd:

• Goodreads | people online now - goodreads is a social networking community for readers of good books, this page shows you who’s online
• Tweet Grid - neat twitter search, create your own search grid or matrix and then you can watch multiple searches
• SystemExplorer Homepage - great monitoring and diagnostic tool for Windows XP or Windows Vista machine
• TouchGraph | Products: Facebook Browser - incredible facebook visualization, really amazing
• PrimePress Theme for WordPress - This is quickly becoming my favorite wordpress theme, I used it on http://austen. com/blog and just now on http://touroftexas.com/blog/ . . . it’s truly awesome!

These are my links for November 8th through November 12th:

• How to Change the World: Looking for Mr. Goodtweet: How to Pick Up Followers on Twitter - Looking for Mr. Goodtweet: How to Pick Up Followers on Twitter
• Op-Ed Columnist - How to Fix a Flat - NYTimes.com - Any car company that gets taxpayer money must demonstrate a plan for transforming every vehicle in its fleet to a hybrid-electric engine with flex-fuel capability, so its entire fleet can also run on next generation cellulosic ethanol.
• monitter : real time, live twitter monitor | free live twitter embed widget - monitter? what is it? Simple. It’s a twitter monitor, it lets you “monitter” the twitter world for a set of 3 keywords and watch what people are saying. Cool huh?
• 30+ Great Web Tools You Might not Know Yet but Should | SEOptimise - social media, web design & development, search, SEO and analytics, e-commerce, blogging and Internet tools are not yet widely known main stream tools
• Social Networking Sites | Social Networks Directory - search engine for finding social networks, impressed with results I got

These are my links for October 22nd through October 31st:

• 10 of the Best Social Media Tools for PR Professionals and Journalists - 10 of the Best Social Media Tools for PR Professionals and Journalists
• My Creative Team Wiki / Media People Using Twitter - most complete list of media people using twitter
• Where is Your Username registered - Lets you check a potential user name for social network sites
• Being Peter Kim: A List of Social Media Marketing Examples - applying game mechanics to understand participation, thinking about users vs. customers, and deconstructing ego traps in PR campaigns. This analysis makes me wonder if social media marketing matters and if so, does it scale.
• Social Media / Business Marketing Links | The Global Social Media Network - Social Media Marketing - business marketing and social media marketing links

These are my links for September 20th through October 9th:

• Tweetmeme - 15:20 PM, October 9th, 2008 GB - less structured way to keep track of what links are buzzing on twitter categories links in to blog, image, video and audio posts
• Twitscoop - Search twitter, see what’s hot right now - What’s hot on twitter right now
• Twitturly - Real-time Link Tracking on Twitter - top trends on twitter, use this to stay ahead of the curve and tracks links
• Twubble - suggests new twitter friends based on your current twitter friends
• Tweet Scan - Tweet Scan is a real-time search engine for Twitter and identi.ca. Tweet Scan indexes all public messages on both services so you can find the conversations, people, and tweets/dents you want. You can search by keyword or author with results available via email(Twitter only for now), RSS, and Twhirl.
• GroupTweet - GroupTweet allows Malcolm and the gang to send messages via Twitter that are instantly broadcasted privately to only the team members.
• Rogue Amoeba - Nicecast: Broadcast any audio on Mac OS X - Nicecast is the easiest way to broadcast music from OS X. Broadcast to the world, or just across your house. Nicecast can help you create your own internet radio station or allow you to listen to your iTunes Music Library from anywhere in the world!
• 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes | Developer’s Toolbox | Smashing Magazine - some excellent wordpress themes

These are my links for September 2nd through September 15th:

• Irssi - Community Ubuntu Documentation - Irssi is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client. It is a text-based client as it lacks a graphical user interface (gui) such as XChat, Chatzilla and others.
• Fitbit - Automatically Track Your Fitness and Sleep - Did I get enough exercise today? How many calories did I burn? Am I getting good quality sleep? How many steps and miles did I walk today? The Fitbit Tracker helps you answer these questions.
• Gnip API v1.3 - The Gnip API provides notification of activities (events) occurring in a variety of services and, whenever possible, a guid that identifies the activity itself vis a vis the service it was created on. Activity examples include a user “tweet” (twitter), a user “dugg” (digg), a user creating a blog post, etc.
• CrunchBase, The Free Tech Company Database - CrunchBase is the free database of technology companies, people, and investors that anyone can edit.
• ONLINE BUSINESS TOOLBOX: 230+ Tools for Running a Business Online - A great roundup of business tools for running a business, all web based. I found some good stuff here.

These are my links for August 1st through August 31st:

• Eventbrite - TechCrunch Austin Ventures Meet-Up - TechCrunch is heading South for a Meet-Up in Austin, Texas with the team from Austin Ventures (http://www.austinventures.com/). We are landing in town on Thursday, September 25 just in time for the Austin City Limits (http://www.aclfestival.com/default.aspx) music festival. We do have a handful of three day ACL passes to give away to sponsors and attendees, and will be announcing details of music festival give aways in the coming weeks.
• Rudder - The New Free Online Money Management, Budget Planning And Personal Finance Software - product that looks forward and determines how much you can spend today and still pay all your bills
• Gustav Information Center - good social network resource along with http://search.twitter.com/search?q=Gustav for tracking Gustav news and resources
• Schedule Future-Dated Twitter Tweets » TweetLater.com - Keep your Twitter stream ticking over with new tweets even when you’re not in front of your computer. Or, use it as your personal reminder system. Send automated thank you notes to new followers, automatically follow new followers,
  if you choose to do so.
• (6) near:”Austin, Texas” within:50mi - Twitter Search - realtime search results for twitter tweets near Austin, Texas. Twitters official advanced search.
• SocialGO - Social Network Maker - Create your own Social Network for FREE
• Mashable Summermash Austin interview with Will Pate - spring.net - Spring.net interviewed Will Pate. Will cohosts CommandN a very popular video podcast with Amber Macarthur out of Toronto, Canada. He founded Raincity Studios which recently bought Bryte. Will ?can?t talk? about some upcoming ventures, but he does talk broadly about his future direction.

  Spring.net did over 30 interviews at the Summermash Party in Austin at Buffalo Billiards on the night of July 30, 2008 and also videod the entire daytime Socialmedia Camp at the Thistle Cafe on West Sixth Street in Austin. The evening party featured an open bar, food, and a packed second floor. Brian Massey said ?It took a bunch of people from San Franciso to round up some of Austin?s best bloggers and developers in one place.?

  We?ll be releasing the full 5 hour session of the Mashable Social Media Camp on one hour installments and we?ll also be releasing all of the 30 plus interviews over the next 2-3 weeks.