Maui SEO and Internet Marketing: CompMaui

I just installed the new visual voicemail application for the G1 android, and I have to say I’m impressed. I’m running custom firmware on a rooted phone.

The only annoyance is the time zone difference between here and customer support, and the fact you have to call to enable visual voicemail. It’s really nice to be able to selectively choose which voicemails you want to listen to without having to go through that long instructional voicemail junk. Another nice feature is that you can download and save any voicemail in MP3 format for later.

It does take a little longer for the voicemail to reach your phone though as it has to download the content, and the quality isn’t quite the same. But it’s nifty enough that there’s no way I’d go back.

Hopefully T-Mobile can get the My T-Mobile application working again for developer and rooted phone’s as well but I’m not expecting that any time soon.

If you haven’t yet, go ahead and download the visual voicemail application, call customer service, and check it out. It’s well worth it.

WordPressMU is an incredibly powerful multi-blog tool.  It is what WordPress.com uses.  It does seem to lack a few core features that I assumed it would have out of the box.

So today I inevitably ran into a few problems…

The Primary Goal:

1) Display the newest content from any users blog within the WordPress MU install on the homepage of the WordPress MU blog in chronological order.  There can be no duplicate content (eg, content available on a users blog cannot be permalinked on the main/admin MU blog.)

The Secondary Goals:

1) Include content from a few other WordPress blogs hosted on other domains on the homepage of the WordPressMU blog.
2) Display content from non-WordPress sources within the same aggregated homepage content of the WordPress MU install (For example from vBulletin).
3) A “Read More…” feature must be integrated with WordPress MU’s built in “Continue Reading…” feature.
4) All links must take people to the original post with unaltered URLs.

How it was done:

First I had to aggregate all the feeds into one “master feed.”  This was easy using Yahoo! Pipes

Side Note:  If you don’t know anything about REGEX, you need to take a look at what it is capable of. Here are 2 Priceless REGEX Resources:
RegEx Generation Tool: A tool to generate Regular Expressions for most major coding/scripting languages.
Online RegExr: A Regular Expression Testing Tool

Next I had to find a script that could reliably post RSS feeds in a way that could mimic WordPress posts.  Solved by using RSS2HTML.

A bunch of template and code edits later, it all seems to work!

Not much of a step-by-step guide, but I’m not really done yet… If you are trying to accomplish this same task the links above are incredibly useful.  Will keep you posted!

Did you know that 20% of emails sent from self-hosted email services end up in a spam box?

If you’re an internet marketer or you send emails out from your own server you NEED to fillout every Feedback Loop Form you possibly can.  If an email provider gives you a chance to instill trust with their spam filters… DO IT!

11 Critical Feedback Loop Forms

• AOL Feedback Loop (Direct Link)
• BlueTie Feedback Loop (Direct Link)
• Comcast Feedback Loop (Direct Link)
• Cox.net Feedback Loop (Direct Link)
• EarthLink Feedback Loop (Email Link)
• MSN/Hotmail Feedback Loop (Direct Link)
• OutBlaze Feedback Loop (Email Link)
• RoadRunner Feedback Loop (Direct Link)
• United Online Feedback Loop (Direct Link)
• USA.net Feedback Loop (Direct Link)
• Yahoo Feedback Loop (Direct Link)