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Video LightBox Script

December 20, 2009

A Lightbox is a piece of JavaScript used to display images and videos in an ‘overlay’.
Basically, a user can click on an image to either have the image – or a video – magnified in a Lightbox window. It is usually accompanied by the use of a dark background, usually a dimming of the [...]

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How To Quickly & Easily Publish Business Videos

April 2, 2009

I use Amazon S3 to host my business videos.
S3 offers incredible performance, unlimited storage, and is extremely affordable. Another Purple Cow from Amazon.
Plus it looks a lot more professional than hosting your business videos on a crowded social video site with user generated videos and ads surrounding it.

Amazon S3 for video hosting.
Camtasia / Jing [...]

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Case Of The Disappearing Blog?

March 21, 2009

You probably know about my book, “No Business Like E-Business”, that sells on Amazon.
I have also developed this really powerful Membership Software, whose primary “Claim to Fame” is that it can “drip” content little by little on a list, much like an email autoresponder drips emails.
So, I had this rather brilliant idea and [...]

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Chat With Your Visitors: Google Chat For Your Web Site

November 21, 2008

Until last night, I thought I was quite tech-savvy and very up-to-date with the latest and greatest in the web world. But I guess I was wrong
I started on a (brief) quest last month to add live-chat to some of my sites. After looking around, I couldn’t find a decent free solution. Of [...]

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Are You Keeping A Tab On Your Competitors – and Yourself?

August 4, 2008

Quite frequently, I am reminded of how we take certain things for granted, while it could be something completely new/interesting/educating/shocking for someone else.
Using Google Alerts for competitive research is one such “thing”. During a chat with a friend the other day, I casually mentioned how I use Google Alerts to keep an eye on my [...]

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Free Customer Support and Ticketing PHP Script

March 21, 2008

[UPDATE: This script was free for a LONG time. Apparently, at some point, they made it not-free. FYI.]
At my MyWebmasterInABox.com site, I used to run a forum powered by phpBB. But phpBB turned out to be one of the most poorly designed, least secure, web-based applications I have ever used.
So, for the longest time, I [...]

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How To Display RSS Feeds On Your Site

December 27, 2006

If you know what a “blog” is, you probably already know what a “RSS Feed” is.
One of the best (not to forget, cheapest and fastest) ways to get free content for your web site, is to display a third-party RSS Feed. Every time the feed’s content changes, content on your web site automatically changes, thus [...]

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