Archive for July, 2008

Cuil? Just as odd as its name

July 31, 2008
By Brad McCall

In the blogs that I read, email newsletters I subscribe to, and info that comes across my desk, the new search engine Cuil (pronounced like “cool”) seems to have been mentioned quite a few times times. So in typical fashion, I did a vanity search for my own name (and my company’s primary product...
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Losing the top spot on Google

July 23, 2008
By Brad McCall

I meant to mention this the other day when I Googled myself and found I had lost the top spot on Google’s search engine to a blog. (I question Google’s mixed relationship there, because it owns the blogging tool.), but today when I checked, I’ve even moved further down the line to be 5th....
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Remembering My First “Professional” Freelance Job

July 21, 2008
By Brad McCall
Remembering My First “Professional” Freelance Job

Remember when you did your first professional freelance job? You did everything from beginning to end including the design, printing and management? I was thinking about that mixture of excitement and nervousness as I sent it off to press followed by the sure satisfaction that followed when the client loved the way it looked....
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My Bloglines – Branding, Design and Usability

July 19, 2008
By Brad McCall

For those of you who don’t know what Bloglines is, you might as well go and check out the link. But in short, it allows you a one stop place to monitor all your RSS feeds. There are a quite a few tools that do this (even your portals like Yahoo and Google), but...
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