Take a look at some great Friday Traffic Report reader sites. (I don’t have a crystal ball, so the only way I can single you out in a reader appreciation post is if you comment and I can check out your site!) AskTak Blog: Takuya Hikichi is a regular at Friday Traffic Report and has a great blog fo...

People are really a lot like sheep.  Not in a necessarily bad way, like they really are like sheep.  But they do prefer to travel in herds.  That fact is pretty well represented throughout history.  If you prefer a modern reference, I give you the millions of members of social sites. Herds follo...

Anissa passed on this interesting Twitter tool this morning:  Twitoria. It shows you the people you follow who are inactive and for how long.  In short, the Slackers.  Twitter deadbeats.   Utter failures in life and business.  Useless, shiftless, bums who can’t be bothered to even utter 3 ch...

Seth Godin is the only person who can get me to open an email entitled “Time to Start a Newspaper� in what is being considered the swan song days of chopping down trees and delivering them to people. Seriously, the paper news industry is truly coming to an end.  At least in its current form.  ...

Can you tell I’m on a Twitter bender?  I can’t help it.  I blew it off for the most part this year because there were so many tools and so many people talking about it that I just got burnt out on it before I gave it a real chance. So, this week is shaping up to be Twitter Week on FTR.  Hereâ...

I just watched a super long video. That very rarely happens. But this one I got pulled into and couldn’t click away. It is Jason Calacanis’ Keynote speech from Affiliate Summit. He’s talking about gaming search engines, SEO is bullshit, and how “curation� is the salvation of the internet. ...

Guest Post By Michel Fortin In the competitive marketplace of the new millennium, the demand for specialized products or services will increase. If your site sells everything or to everyone, chances are that your audience will not perceive any greater value in shopping from you than anyone else. The...

I am playing with a beta version of a new piece of software we are going to be releasing soon. Remember Utility Poster? Well, not to sit on our past success, we immediately got to work on other things that bloggers could post to their sites with such a tool and created “Video Utility Poster.� Do...

It’s hard to tell a bunch of clients to start blogging when there is a large percentage of people who want a powerful presence on the web; just not by their own “pen.� It was with great pleasure to stumble upon Chris Brogan’s recent post entitled “Conquering Fear of Blogging.� In it he d...