Well, this is exciting. I actually have a product to hawk now, so I can put to use some of the knowledge that I have gathered at work to promote myself.
My first stop: Search Engine Optimization. Basically, if someone is looking for the kind of product I'm selling, I want my product to appear on the first page of the search results of Google. Preferrably, near the top. And on all of the other search engines as well. But not necessarily for the name of my product.
In case you didn't know, I rather like astronomy. When I was younger, I wanted to be an astronaut, and I was routinely begging my dad to build a spaceship. Clearly, neither of those things happened.
My mom has always wanted to go north to see the aurora. I keep telling her that under the right conditions you don't have to go much farther than the rural country near here. And even if you did go far north, the aurora may not be as brilliant as you see in pictures, because they tend to overexpose the film in order to get some of the more fantastic effects.
I forgot that this program existed until just a few minutes ago, and when I searched for it on Google to recall the original publisher’s name (Fractal Design, remember?), I found that it had been bought and updated! Expression is a very cool vector-based paint program.http://www.creaturehouse.com
If you’ve ever enjoyed building a model rocket or watching someone launch theirs, you might be saddened to know that the Department of Homeland Screwupitry may declare that the small engines in the rockets are weapons, thus ending rocketry as a hobby.http://www.space-rockets.com/arsanews.html
Well, I went ahead and created a Google AdWords campaign for Less Than Slash, just to test the water. So if you search for "XHTML" on Google (among a few other key phrases), you will see an ad for Less Than Slash.
There isn't a link to the appropriate search in this article because each click actually costs money - between $0.05 and $0.10. There is a cap, so only so many clicks can happen per day before the ad shuts off. This should work out alright because Google reports how many clicks they expect you to get per day, and this number times the cost per click is below my daily budget. So anyway, if you go there, just look at the pretty ad, but don't click on it, since you already know where to go to get LTS.