Author Archives: Ron Boyd

Facebook Usernames

13 June, 2009 – 1:25 am

OK.. This one covers the gamut! It’s definitely ‘in the news’ we’re talking about major impact on search marketing, optimization and I’m definitely getting up on my soapbox and shouting it from the highest geographical location I can find! People! and I do mean EVERYONE! Facebook just opened up USERNAMES! “So What!” you say? Well [...]

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The Vendor Client Relationship

13 June, 2009 – 1:00 am

Good friend, John from seoworks.com fired me over this video clip earlier today. It was sooo good, sooo bang on the money that I just had to share it! For any of you that are self employed, or own or manage a business I can guarantee that you’ll be able to relate to this excellent [...]

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Introducing Add-on Collections for Firefox

10 June, 2009 – 1:17 pm

Firefox, once again has proven why it’s MY favourite browser. Don’t get me wrong, I really love Safari, Chrome, Opera and even IE has gotten better by leaps and bounds in the last couple of years. But NONE of the other browsers offer me my add-ons like Mozilla does! I don’t know if I could [...]

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Telus JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes

9 June, 2009 – 3:51 pm

Once again our family will be walking for the Cure. Please Help us support diabetes research… Sponsor me today and help take a step towards a Cure for Diabetes! http://jdrfca.donordrive.com/participant/ronboyd

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Flip Text

15 May, 2009 – 9:01 pm

Awesome little script from flipmytext.com allows you to flip text upside down and backwards. Great for Twitter, Myspace, Facebook, YouTube, Blogs, Forums, IMs, more secure passwords and more! Word of advise: use it sparingly to catch readers attention, use it too much and you’ll drive visitors away!

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Social vs Anti-social

15 May, 2009 – 5:18 pm

Today’s rant Being involved in the Internet Industry for over 12 years now I’ve probably heard it said a hundred times or more that the Internet is destroying the social bonds that hold our society together. Statements like that are made by uninformed, narrow-minded people that really need to open their eyes and see what’s [...]

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Employment Phishing Scams

3 May, 2009 – 10:30 pm

You spend a lot of time, effort and emotion hunting for a new job. You definitely do NOT want to end up getting your hopes up only to have them dashed up the rocks of despair because that perfect job opportunity turns out to be a scam! Welcome to PhishBucket.org your place to verify suspicious [...]

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the social business conundrum

2 May, 2009 – 10:02 pm

For quite a while now I’ve been struggling with the whole social business thing; Where is the line? When I was brought up, educated and shown the ropes of business it was taboo to mix business with pleasure. You address colleagues and clients by Mr. or Mrs or Sir and Ma’am and your friends by [...]

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snopes.com: FBstarter.com

2 May, 2009 – 4:48 pm

Important!!! Phishing Scam… fbstarter.com snopes.com: FBstarter.com

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Meta Tags

29 April, 2009 – 4:16 pm

What are meta tags? A meta tag is a snippet of code located between the <head> </head> tags in an HTML document. Defined, "meta" is the shortform of "metainformation". Meta tags are often used incorrectly and laypeople and designers alike are often uninformed as to their meaning. Originally meta tags were used to help "make [...]

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