I don't have a blog, I don't have a fancy Web site and I don't have a profile on MySpace or Facebook, but I do get people coming to my simple little four-page Web site and I'd like to learn more about them. My sister says I want to run some "analytics" program, but I'm clueless. I can edit HTML, but what do I add?...

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A couple of my MySpace friends have super cool new profile layouts and when I asked them was told that it's just the new MySpace interface. Uh, it isn't on my account. How can I get to this new interface where I can pick a more modern layout and appearance?...

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Kind of a weird request, but I'm wondering if there's a way to minimize my logins when I'm at an Internet Café so that I can log in to one service, like Gmail, and be automatically logged in to Facebook?...

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I want to set Internet Explorer so that when I start it up, it always goes to a webpage other than the default startup page. How can I change the "startup page" or "home page" in Internet Explorer?...

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I took some photos with my digital camera and I want to e-mail them to friends or upload them to my Facebook, but the files are enormous, and uploading them takes forever! Can I make them smaller while still having the photos look the same?...

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I know you've written about how to create an "add me" button for MySpace, but, um, I'm not on MySpace, I'm on Facebook. is there some way to build or hack together an "add me" button for Facebook to add to my site instead? Thanks....

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I'm the Black Eyed Peas biggest fan and love all their work. I'd love to send them some email and tell them how great their songs are: how can I find an email address for the band or of Fergie, their amazing singer?...

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On my journey to find the ideal Google Gmail account ID, I ended up registering a few extra accounts (Gmail addresses? Not sure how to phrase that). Problem is, at this point I just want to axe the old addresses but can't for the life of me figure out how to do so. How on earth do you delete or cancel a Gmail account address?...

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Rather to my surprise, I found out through a stray email that my son had signed up for a MySpace account. He's 11 and he doesn't have permission to do so. As part of his punishment I am going to delete his account and since it's just a few days old, I'm wondering if I can simply ignore it and have it go away or if there's something special I need to do?...

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I've been trying to figure out whether there's a way that I can automate digging through the "referrals" on my site so I can see what searches people did to end up on one of my Web site pages. I'm running a Linux server and have Apache installed, so I get a huge log file with tons of info. But what I'd love is a simple script that will let me get email once a...

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I got a really weird email from a friend on Facebook: it was just a Web site URL and when I went to it, I got a warning message that it was an "unsafe" and that it'd been blocked. What the heck? What's going on?...

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Now that I have some songs available through the iTunes Music Store [ed: it's now just the "iTunes Store" since it's more than just music. :-) ] I want to link to what I have from my MySpace profile. I don't want to have a per-song or, planning for the future, per CD link, I want to link to all the results people get from searching for my name in the Store. Can that be...

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Giving out a link to take a survey is pretty easy, but I think it would be much easier if I could just put a survey directly it into my website. So my questions is, how do I put a survey into my website without having to send out a link?...

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In previous blog entries (see How do I sponsor searches on Google? and Advertising cannot be your only online marketing channel), I've talked about how to use paid services to promote your business online, focusing specifically on Google Adwords and how it lets your company appear as "sponsored" results on a search page. Then we talked last week about the distressingly ephemeral nature of paid advertising and explored examples of how mindshare rapidly declines once...

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In an earlier blog entry (see How to sponsor a search result), I talked about how to use Google AdWords to promote your business and how to get "sponsored" results in search engines like Google and Yahoo. I continue the conversation by talking about low cost grassroots ways that you can promote your business online through having a great content-based Web site, social networking and other avenues. But first, I want to talk about why...

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I'm going just a bit crazy with MySpace. The latest is that whenever I log in, I have dozens of friend requests, but they're all from spammers or weirdoes. Is there some way to make it harder for the automated spam tools to send friend requests? Please?...

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My system administrator is telling me that I need to add a "capcha" [actually, it's "captcha"] system to my site so that I get less spam. What's a captcha system and why would I want it?...

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We're living in a noisy world. There a millions of blogs, and photos and radio shows and podcasts and websites, and… whew! There's a lot of stuff out there. So if you're just starting out, or even if you've been doing it for awhile, you probably wonder how you're going to get noticed. The bad news is if it was easy, you'd be noticed already. The good news is that there's never been a greater...

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I've just recently signed up for orkut and am wondering if the "friend requests" from people I have never bumped into before are legit or not. I've sent you the invite: can you tell me how to know whether it's a phishing attempt before I actually click on a link?...

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I get all sorts of idiotic comments on my MySpace account and am wondering if there's a way to tweak things so that comments have to be approved before they show up on my account?...

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