Mike DeWolfe's blog

With eight characters, you can give billions of people a unique name.

Here's a list of Google products that are going the way of the dinosaur. I am a little amazed that Google does two things:

1. It builds competing products (Google Maps vs. Google Earth; Google Analytics vs. Urchin; Orkut vs. Google-Plus; and, Google Video vs.

Contemplating swapping over to the Facebook Timeline? For those of you who don't know, the Facebook timeline is the new profile layout that supposedly tracks your life via this online site (I'm dubious: I barely used Facebook in the 1980s). If you need to a swell photo for your splash zone on your Facebook timeline, grab one of the images we have available for download. We're going to post more, heck-- ask us and we'll make a cool one you'd love to feature for your Facebook timeline!

Here's a quick how-to for Blubrry and Wordpress to carry out Podcasting

• Get the Blubrry Powerpress plug-in
• Activate the plug-in and fill out the details (stop short of the "Services & Stats")
• Create a new account at http://www.blubrry.com/
• You will need to confirm the account before you proceed.
• Log in to Blubrry

Newsletters are fantastic for building your audience and reaching out to them. Email has the virtues of a web page with two important additional traits: the information can be information not mean for a general audience (stock tips, daily deals, etc.) and makes a non-anonymous link between what you offer and your clients.

The Dragons are making a Big Decision.

The stars of Canada's top-rated entertainment program Dragons' Den are hitting the road to help struggling companies get back on track by offering their expertise - and their own MONEY.

In Episode 9, Mike and Cheryl talk about getting stuck and how to get unstuck. We have coping strategies and ways to blast through those blocks: writers block, programming fatigue and even the dreaded she-bang switcher-roo.

Let’s look at one principle, five approaches to adopt and one approach to give up on.

Why do some pages blink into place like they have a hyperdrive installed; and others dawdle their way into existence? The former likely have some simple tricks figured out. Those tricks are actually easy to figure out and the benefits are broad. They improve the user experience and they make search engine optimization easier. A couple of these tips may be a little more server intensive (like Keep-Alive), but some of them can actually make your site easier to deliver.

Here are my seven tips for how to make your Twittering more enjoyable and productive. You want it to be productive and enjoyable, right?