I remember when this story broke.

Alex Tew was an inspiration to many people.

His MillionDollarHomePage was one of those crazy ideas that works, once.

Although it spawned hundreds of copy-cat websites and a cottage industry to support them, the MillionDollarHomePage stood out for its raw honesty, its sense of adventure and its ability to achieve what Alex envisioned:

As the fourth anniversary of MillionDollarHomePage approaches, I encourage you to read through Alex Tew’s blog to really appreciate what it takes to create a million-dollar idea.

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OrangeJackass has been ranting about Twitter Reciprocal Following for a while. So it was interesting to see a tweet about a blog post from Robert Scoble:

You are SO unfollowed!

Robert gives some valid, commonsense reasons for his actions and points out a gem of a tool.

If you’re not using FriendFeed, here is a snippet from the comments that might help you to reconsider:

Gary Arndt
Are you going to cut back on your FriendFeed followers as well? If not, why?
Scobleizer
No, because FriendFeed lets me put them into lists. I can separate out my favorite people from the rest via a list. This is something that Twitter can not do (many Twitter clients like PeopleBrowsr, TweetDeck, and Seesmic can, but not at a deep level like FriendFeed can).

Now, even though we generally think that Twitter Reciprocal Following is Stupid, we think that it is a great way to get blog fodder. We won’t kid ourselves about how many people are paying attention to us* and we simply plan to move forward with other forms of publicity:

• Forum signature
• Commenting on blogs
• Article Marketing

* As of August 8, 2009, that @OrangeJackAss screenshot is still accurate!

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OrangeJackass came across a nifty post about URL Expander services.

12 Ways To Reveal Suspicious Shortened URLs!

What are URL Expanders?

We need to be careful about clicking those bit.ly links! URL expanders claim to reveal the original url. Read the post to learn more.

Ching Ya includes a colorful chart to help you choose one.

Don’t forget to check out snap.com’s Snap shots, too!

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