#14 Getting not-so-technical with Technorati

Once again, Technorati is a greatly useful tool for organizing and managing your link list and favorite sites. It is one of my favorite tools to quickly browse through a list of links or sites you read on a regular basis to see who has updated and what they are talking about. Being able to breeze through the most recent posts of your favorite websites makes it easy and saves time.

#13 Tagging, folksomonies & social bookmarking in Del.icio.us

Del.icio.us as a website, reminds me of many other social portal sites such as Digg.com. Del.icio.us on the other hand as a bookmarking tool is a good tool to use for those of us that have bookmarks on our home computers and work computers. Or if you share a computer with your kids or spouse, your bookmark list on your computer can become overwhelming rather quickly.

In the early days, used to create my own HTML pages with link lists myself. This was easy to update and maintain. I could also style and layout the link lists how I wanted them (as you can see....I am a bit of a control freak), rather than to just have a drop-down list in your navigation window of your browser.

Del.icio.us can be a useful tool to share and research links and subjects among co-workers or family and friends.

My only negative comment would be that it is yet another online tool that you need to create an account.....log in.....and maintain.

#7 Blog about Technology

One technology application I have enjoyed using recently is a product or application called CrazyEgg. It allows you to place a small script on a page of a website to analyze how visitors are using your website and where they are clicking by creating a 'heatmap' of clicks. The more red/yellow the spot, the more people are clicking on that spot or link. The blue/green spots....less clicks.

Very useful when creating a new website or trying out a new layout. It also allows you to analyze what the people or users want, rather than what you 'think' they want.