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S.S. Intrepid
http://www.stevensmedia.com/blog/
S.S. Intrepid is the web development blog of Sam Stevens, covering PHP, CSS design, and search marketing.
Recent Posts
3 Reasons why publishing your Facebook status to Twitter is problematic
Social media marketing can be very time consuming, and automated tools are welcome in just about any marketer’s toolbox. It’s very crucial however to select the right tasks to automate. Twitter automated DMs are an example of problematic automati...
One-click bulk follow for Twitter Lists
The new Twitter Lists feature has probably been rolled out to everyone by now. More than just another social media popularity contest, Twitter Lists reveal topic-based influence, pointing you in the direction of the best people to follow for a given ...
Tips for running Twitter contests
Twitter contests can offer numerous benefits including increased exposure through tweets and retweets (viral), and demonstrating a fun side of your brand (ex. scavenger hunts, uniquely interactive contests.)Designing an effective Twitter contest is n...
Social media profile organizers
This isn’t an exhaustive list, but here are the services I checked out when looking to create a central social media profile. Initially, I was only looking for a static profile page, but I ended up wanting some lifestreaming capabilities as well. D...
Blog migration
I don’t blog enough to warrant a self-hosted install of WordPress and the regular maintenance and security upgrades that requires. At the same time, I don’t want to lose my place on the web to share web development and SEO related information and...
PHP Anaconda: Amazon AWS Keyword Search Script
On a number of my websites, I was using the old Amazon ECS web service to pull in a handful a related products based on a keyword search. I used a hacked up version of the Filzhut.de amazon_functions scripts. When March 31st of this year rolled aroun...
