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17 Twitter Tracking Tools & 6 for Stat Analysis…who’s watching you?
17 Twitter Tools for Tweet Tracking
- Tweet Effect : Find out which of your Twitter updates made people follow or leave you. I think this is the best tool in the entire list according to me to track and analyse yourself which tweets attracts and hurts your follows.
- Tweet Beep : It is a Google Alerts for Twitter. It enables anyone to receive alerts by email whenever a specific word or phrase is tweeted on Twitter. You can follow them on Twitter here.
- Twitter Charts : You can view the number of tweets by the user according to the time of the day and day of the week.
- Retweetist : It displays most Re-tweeted tweets on its home page. The Most Re-tweeted users will also be displayed. You can track most popular Re-Tweets. You can follow them on Twitter here.
- Twitter Analyzer : Twitter Analyzer, as the name suggests, provides with various statistics for your Twitter account. It is The Most Advanced Twitter Analytic System In The World. You can follow them on Twitter here.
- TWADL : A suite of free Twitter tools, to let you Tweet photos or music and lets you count how many people click on your links. You can follow them on Twitter here.
- Tweet Burner : TweetBurner tracks the links you share on Twitter and Friendfeed. It keeps track of web links used in Twitter status updates.
- Twitter Vision : Twitter Vision is a real time geographic visualization of posts to Twitter. You can follow them on Twitter here.
- Twellow : A search directory of people by area of expertise, profession or other attribute listed in personal profiles on Twitter. It is simply the twitter yellow pages. You can follow them on Twitter here.
- Happy Tweets : Happytweets is a measuring stick for how positive, or happy, a particular Tweep is. Enter the Twitter username for you or one of your buddies, click the “get happy” button, and you’ll find out how happy your Tweets are.
- Retweetradar : Retweetradar finds trends in the mountains of information ‘retweet’ed on Twitter.
- Tweader : It is a new way that enables us to view the twitter conversations. It is one of the few twitter tools that is proved to be useful.
- Twit Clicks : Twitclicks shortens the URLs and then tracks those links. It does a lot of innovative tracking like clicks, who clicked the link, etc.
- Twistory : Adds your Twitter backlog feed to your favorite calendar application and browse through your personal Twitter diary, making your Twitter history both fun and useful. You can follow them on Twitter here.
- Curse Bird : Cursebird is a real-time feed of people swearing on Twitter. You can follow them on Twitter here.
- Twitturls : Popular Links on Twitter. What’s Hot. We Spy on Everyone’s Twitter! Updated Every Minute. It is also providing the WP plugin. You can follow them on Twitter here.
- Mr.Tweet : Mr.Tweet is your Personal Twitter Assistant, suggesting great people and news to you regularly. You can follow them on twitter here.
6 Analysis Tools for Twitter
- Twitter Grader : Its a free tool to measure you power and reach on twitter. This tools also allows you to compare with millions of users in the worlds using twitter who were also graded. The only thing that you need to do here is, just enter your twitter username it will give the instant report of your power and grade. You can follow the Twitter Grader on twitter too.
- Tweet Stats : If you love to check stats and graphs of your tweets in the twitter, this is the tool that is going to make its impact.
This tool generates the stats and graphs that which can generate the report based on number of tweets per hour, number of tweets per month, tweet timeline, reply stats. Its been used by over 1,00,000 twitter users. You can follow Tweet Stats on Twitter too.
- Mr.Milestone : Mr.Milestone will send you a tweet if you have reaches 100 followers, 200 followers, 300 followers, (every 100 followers). It sends you the tweet for every 100 followers. When you his a milestone you will receive a tweet “@username Congrats! You just reached 200 followers!! You can follow Mr.Milestone on Twitter too.
- Tweet Rank : It displays the graphical information about how many people follow you. If you want to know where your followers come from, this the tool that you are searching for. This provides you the relevance to each tweet by checking how much followers you won or lost with each tweet. You can follow Tweet Rank on Twitter too.
- Tweet Wasters : This is a useless website that helps you to find how much time you and other users waste on twitter.
- Retweet Rank : This gives us the whole database of how many retweets you or your friends have. Based on the number of retweets it gives you the rank. You can follow Retweet Rank on Twitter too.
Too Cute! Twitter Icons
Square Twitter icons
A gorgeous new free icon set designed by Dirceu Veiga. The square Twitter icons resemble iphone app buttons and would be good on websites, blogs or even your iphone.
Twitter Square Icons: Free Icon Set
Twitter Tweets and Twitter Whales?
Here is a new block style set of Twitter icons designed by Dirceu Veiga, including two of that cool whale.
Twitter Block Icons
30+ Web Applications, Apps and Tools for Designers
Free Online Resources for Designers and Developers - All Tested and 100% Diva/Geek approved! Here is a list of some useful and fun websites that will help you work and live life online… ENJOY!
1. iPlotz – Wireframe your Ideas
iPlotz allows you to rapidly create clickable, navigable mockups and wireframes for prototyping websites and software applications. You can create 5 wireframe pages for free.
Wireframe Your Ideas
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Coolest “Web Based” Image Editors
Here is a list of web-based image editors that I found to be the coolest.
Web based editors allow you to make changes to an image from anywhere without having to install applications for example when you are not at home or on your laptop. Or for support techs like me -- I work with Financial Advisors helping them develop their own websites and most of them have no use for photoshop and asking them to download a program like Infranview just to crop or resize one picture for their website would be illogical - so I'm always looking for easy to use web based image editors to link them to...which brings me to why I researched this topic and wrote this post. :) I hope some of you also find it useful.
Meta Tags in Plain English
Meta-tags are used by search engines to correctly index and rank web sites. The most important meta tags are the keywords meta tags and the description meta tags and both are essential for any well-built site.
When you create a website and you submit it to the search engines, the search engines "spiders" are sent out to "crawl" the site and attempt to correctly index it based on the information it provides. They do this based on several things including the keywords in the content and in the meta tags. Each search engine indexes web sites according to their own algorithms. Some place emphasis on the description tag, such as AltaVista. Other search engines, like Exactseek, are meta tag purists, as stated in their user policy: “Your site will not be added if it does not have Title and Meta description tags.”
Recently, some search engines have downplayed the importance of meta tags due to spam. Some SEO “specialists” were keyword stuffing their tags with irrelevant information, just to get traffic. To penalize this abuse, some search engines don’t assign too much weight to the keywords in meta tags, but they still check to make sure they are relevant.
WP Remix: Making WordPress a CMS, One Step at a Time
WP Remix pushes Wordpress to the max with a little bit of everything!
You may have never heard of the theme, but WP Remix just might be the most innovative and unique toolkit for Wordpress you've ever seen. Unlike your other premium "buy and install" themes, WP Remix comes in a single package filled with 50 amazing and unique layouts for Wordpress -- some of which you never thought possible...truly making it the closest thing to a CMS (content management system) Wordpress has ever seen.Features Unique Only to WP Remix
Theme specific features that you won't see elsewhere! There's no doubt that a lot of loving care was put into the creation of WP Remix. It actually has its own visual editor: once you install WP Remix, you'll be able to visit a special control panel within your Wordpress administration area, in which you can fine tune individual pages of your WP Remix driven website. Here's a feature list for WP Remix:- WYSIWYG editor: WP Remix has an expanded code editor. Drop in code that would otherwise have to be manually typed out!
- Smart drop-down menus: Wordpress dropdowns usually suck - it's true. To remedy this, WP Remix's design team created dynamic drop-down menus that go multiple levels deep. The menus will remember what page you came from, and what page you're currently on!
How to Video: Creating and Editing Pages with the WP Remix Theme
If your not sure this is the theme for you watch the video below to get a better understanding of how the themes admin interface works. Check out WP Remix if you need a kick-ass and comprehensive theme for your blog or company website! You won't regret it. Click here to visit WordPress Remix.
Pixlr.com – Cool New online image editing program – ALOT like a Free Photoshop!
Pixlr is a free online photo editor. Fix, adjust and filter your images. Manage your images in your browser, no registration jump right in!
Pixlr is a flash based web app that combines image design and paint tools with photo editing and adjustment features more convincingly than any other online image editing program. Whether creating an logo, layering one image over another or using a variety of filters, effects and level adjustments to transform photographs, Pixlr is equally capable of producing results on par with many of its software-based counterparts.
Yet, despite its deep feature-set, Pixlr remains facile, intuitive and, most importantly, user-friendly. Did I mention FREE?
Standout Features:
• A fully customizable user interface with movable and scalable windows
• Navigation-free drop-down menus featuring all filters, adjustment and layering options
• Intuitive design and paint features with a dedicated history window for reference and quick undo/redo
• A “Photo Express” portal for quick, simple changes to images and photographs
• dozens of filters and effects to give photos a stylish effect.
Oh and it's FREE and Online!
I totally Dig It!! I've never been impressed with online image editors but this one actually got it. So, if you like Photoshop and you need to create some basic simple logos, banners, image cropping etc.. Check it out.
HOT Black and White Social Icon Sets
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New Social Networking Icon Sets Galore!
Two cool new sites offering new social networking icon sets. It's always nice to see new sets and I'm always looking so if you know of one I have not posted please let me know or if you've designed one and you'd like to be featured - Let me know!
Both sites were designed using.. My Site My Way which is something new to me..what I found strange instead of them having their own domain names they use a subdomain - for example: icons.mysitemyway.com must be great for mysitemyway's search engine optimization! If I were the webmaster however at one of these sites I would definintly register my own domain name. I'd want my ranking, seo etc.. to go towards my site not my web hosts.
Do you Poken?
What is a Poken? Well..Watch the video! Basically a poken is a gadget that allows you to transfer social networking data such as and I can only assume since i don't personally have one but I assume your myspace, Linkedin, Website, Twitter...etc and of course your email address. This is done when you touch your poken to another poken your data is instantly transferred. - Click Post Title to Read More..
11 Open Source (FREE) Photoshop Alternatives
I've been doing some research online tonight for a FREE alternative for Photoshop - my Photoshop installation recently became corrupt (no clue how but it might have something to do with the fact it was cracked..um yeh) Call me evil, I just call me poor.
Anyway, I can't seem to completly uninstall Photoshop and so it won't allow me to re-install it... and since Photoshop cost about USD $649 per copy... I'll most likely be using an alternative until I can format my hard drive.
Anyway, I can not work with out some type of imaging software. Period. I'll let you know which one I decide on.
Read on for 11 Open Source (FREE) Photoshop Alternatives
Hatched! Twitter Eggs – Free Twitter icon set
- Cool Link of the Day: Web 2.0 free buttons maker
Another Great Affiliate that actually pays! $$ WPWebHost
Another Great Affiliate that actually pays! WPWebHost.com I just signed up with them as an affiliate and added a banner to the bottom of my posts using the Shantz WordPress Prefix/Suffix Plugin which I also love by the way.
I earned 70.00 bucks with only 2 referrals and in no time at all. If your like me when you first found out about affiliate marketing you thought "great I can just add links to my website and I'll make money". Well it's really not that easy.
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10 New Social Networking Icon Sets
I'm constantly looking for new social networking icon sets to post but they are few and far between. Good ones at least.
Here are 10 social networking icon sets. A few of them are new to me and a few are not.But all of them are cool.
Make sure to do a search for social networking icons on my website to find more social icons. I've posted a ton of them. Also if you know of any new sets that have not been posted here.. pleeze let me know!
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Web design build questions to ask (yourself) or new clients
If your a webmaster or web designer I highly recommend you read the rest of this post at www.simonday.com
This is a great resource for anyone who does freelance design or builds websites.
Web design build questions to ask (yourself) or new clients
What do you want the web site to do for your company? (is it to just promote brand awareness and for people who hear about them and then go to their site, will people be finding them through search engines, is it existing clients looking for support or news, are you selling online, are you offering downloads, company reports etc) Who is your target audience (age / level of internet experience etc)? (Do they require a modern, fast paced, highly graphical site to target the younger generation or a more user friendly site for the less experienced or older internet users. ) What image do you want to portray (Professional / Casual / cutting edge etc)? (Some sites use white space and limited text to give a relaxed feel while others use lots of images and text to give the site a busy feel. Define the feel of the site) If you have branding what colours, fonts, styles do you use? (See business cards, letterheads etc). More often that not the sole trader will have no graphics, no logo and no identity so in these cases you need to ask the client for colour schemes they think fit with the ideas but also do market research on the competition because the client may not be right.CORE QUESTIONS:
What do you absolutely definitely want on the site? (This list could include blog, shopping cart, members log in, private areas, RSS feeds. Gallery newsletter, contact forms, advertising space, different languages, search facility, etc) What would you like if possible/within budget? What absolutely must be on the homepage and what is the order of priority? (This is a core question and you should allow the client time to ponder and discuss this with you. Their answers here should define the position of the building blocks. The answers could be phone number, email, help icon, downloads, cart total, core product links etc.) What must be visible at all times? (Every page has a fold. A fold is below the visual part of the page and requires you to scroll down to see it. I have a height I use but you should decide for yourself where it should be. The client must understand this and agree what can go above and below). How many links will be needed and how many levels of navigation will there be? (You need to understand the journey paths and decide how far down the link structure will go (level one, level two, level three etc)- Read the rest of this post at www.simonday.com
