Twitter, Jott, & Amy WineHouse

Ok, those keywords will NEVER ever be typed in a search engine together… and if they were, I’d love to know who did it! I just felt like posting three cool things I’ve learned about this week:

• www.twitter.com - this thing is taking of like MAD! Also check out TwitterVision.com
• www.amywinehouse.com - this sultry, tat’d, hot singer is on my new fav list!
• www.jott.com — i haven’t used it, and i think it is stupid, but need a third to post.

Google Sitemap Generator

Roughly 6 months ago I learned that Google has a sitemap XML format that can help Google index your site. Google has documents on how to manually create the XML file, but I’m no XML guru, so I gave up.

Well today I found a Google Sitemap Generator that runs on Java in your browser, and works perfectly.

Check it out!

• http://www.auditmypc.com/free-sitemap-generator.asp

Develop Web Sites with No Coding

If you are llke me, and are not the best programmer/coder/software engineer, but dream up ways to solve needs with web sites… then you should check out these online platforms that make it rather easy to build dynamic web sites with no coding.

• http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/
• http://www.teqlo.com
• http://www.ning.com

I became addicted to Ning about 8 months ago when it came out and created these two apps in about a week. I realized rather quickly, however, that to generate revenue I would have to hire software engineers to provide a service that was truly differentiated. Ning charges you $8/month to run ads, such as Google adsense, on your Ning app, and unless you are pulling in enough traffic to generate more than $10/month then it isn’t worth it. However, if you have a great database of all Brew Pubs in US, for instance, you could easily build an app/map with these apps, and likely make some good ad revenue.

• http://outdoors.ning.com
• http://children.ning.com

Real Estate Web Sites

If you’re interested in investing in Real Estate, there are some great new web sites to help you research.

• Zillow.com
• Trulia.com
• ShackPrices.com
• HousingMaps.com - for rentals

It’s all about the traffic…

No you can’t just build a web site and they will come. You have to promote it like mad… and here are two more sources to promote press releases, articles, or plugs about your web site.

• http://answers.yahoo.com/ - contribute to Yahoo Answers!
• http://www.mylot.com - Join communities like these and post like mad, with links to your site.