I don’t know about you, but I use Gmail, Google Docs, Facebook, Flickr and a host of other social media platforms and “cloud based services” (like Google Docs).

I have hundreds of pages of documents and images located in the cloud and use these services constantly for both my business and for personal stuff (like my photo album and email).

The other day it occurred to me that I don’t have an easy way to backup these files (besides copying and pasting it all onto my hard drive), so I went searching… and stumbled upon a service called “Backupify”.

Cool thing about this service is that not only does it backup your Google Docs data, it also has a service that backs up your Flickr account as well as your Facebook Profile information. PLUS, it also backsup other information like your Twitter data, Blogger data (this is pretty huge), Linked In and Zoho profiles (pretty cool).

They even provide 1 GB of free storage for their “Social Media” backup service.

You can learn more about their service here: http://www.backupify.com/

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Have you ever heard of bit.ly or tinyurl.com?

Those are link shortening services often used in conjunction with Twitter (and Facebook). Not to mention the fact that internet marketers often use them to cloak and track their affiliate links.

I use link shorteners for both tracking and cloaking reasons…

Last week I came across this interesting blog post on Aweber’s blog regarding email deliverability when using link shortening services with Aweber (and other auto-responder systems). You can read the article here:

http://www.aweber.com/blog/email-deliverability/link-shorteners.htm

Anyway, after reading this… I decided to take matters into my own hands and decided to create my own personal link shortening service using a free script called Yourls that you can download from yourls.org

(by the way, in case you’re wondering, bit.ly is blacklisted… which means you probably SHOULD NOT use their links in your emails).

Yourls.org provide us a free URL shortener script similar to tinyurl or bit.ly you can easily install onto your own domain / hosting. It’s pretty slick with some nice stats features to go along with it. All that’s necessary to set it up is to create a mysql database on your hosting platform and configure a simple PHP file (and of course run the install script).

I opted to not make my shortening script public but you can choose to set it up to be a public script if that’s what you want to do…

Anyway, I’ve decided to use my own shortener url for all of my emails and blogs now… it’s kinda cool, and negates the need for a regular link cloaker.

Another cool feature is that they have a WordPress plug-in that will automatically use your “yourl” in Tweets and such.

Pretty slick.

If you have the resources and have been looking at an alternative to expensive cloaking scripts or link shortening services, then this is definitely for you.

Have fun!

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In other words, going from giving everything away for free and trying to monetize a blog or what not to putting together a small newsletter / blog that charges a buck or five…

What do you think?

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This video presents some interesting ideas on creating mental imprints by being generous that can help you grow your own business.

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As someone told me today: “Pressing ‘Enter’ to post a comment in Facebook SUCKS!”

It blows because you may inadvertently post a comment before you wanted to submit it (especially if it’s a longer reply).

Plus if you want a space between paragraphs and hit enter (to create the hard break) it will automatically post before you’re finished with your comment.

While I haven’t figured out a way to make the ‘submit’ button reappear… there is a solution for creating a space between paragraphs.

When you want to hit “enter” to create a space (hard break) between sentences, simply hold down the [SHIFT] key when pressing [ENTER].

Pretty easy solution. :)

I really hope the guys and gals over at Facebook decides to reinstante the submit type of button… because “Pressing Enter To Post A Comment… SUCKS”.

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