LocalMN is a Minneapolis based search engine optimization firm run by Mr. Paul Jahn. Paul used to be referred to as The Pope, but that’s so 2004.
LocalMN’s focus is on helping businesses focuses on local markets leverage the web in their marketing efforts. What are local businesses? Companies where their clientèle comes from nearby, such as restaurants, retail, and professional services.
BenCrebile is the personal blog on one Mr. Benjamin J. Higginbotham.
Today happens to be Ben of BenCredible.com’s birthday!
He’s 29 years old, which is around 105 in Internet time.
Are you ready for the future? You’d better be because the future starts tomorrow with the unveiling of the latest products and companies planning on changing the world at DEMO.
To get a taste for what to expect at DEMO 2007, check out this video from 2006 DEMOfall showcasing Dash.
New web start-ups are launching every day. Where can you turn for a “frank” description and take on the latest to launch? At Somewhat Frank, of course.
Somewhat Frank is the home of Frank Gruber, an avid tech blogger and party starter who has his finger on the pulse of web start-ups.
Frankly, Frank’s frank opinions have taken the blogosphere by storm and are a must-read for bleeding edge web based business geeks.
One of the biggest challenges faced by home owners today is deciding where to keep their bananas. Fortunately, Kitchen Cabinet Mart offers the perfect solution to this vexing problem: kitchen cabinets. Giovanna Villanueva’s kitchen cabinetry website offers a wide selection of Oak, Maple, Cherry, and Walnut cabinets along with installation instructions.
It’s time to get your bananas off counters and into cabinets, so stop by Kitchen Cabinet Mart, order the free wood style samples, and start designing your new dream kitchen today.
SkinnySki.com is the Upper Midwest’s premier news site for everything related to cross country skiing. SkinnySki publishes community-contributed trail reports, race results, product reviews, and other cross-country skiing related news.
It’s not uncommon for snow-addicts to set SkinnySki.com as their browser’s homepage as soon as the weather turns cool so they don’t miss the first trail report of the year.
While some people have a hard time stringing together two words on a banana, the man behind Jackalope Ranch can write full sentences, paragraphs, and even entire blog posts with a banana in one hand and a cup of fair-trade shade-grown bike-delivered coffee in the other. Don’t ask for The Deets on how he does it. TMI.
Jackalope Ranch is a special place where the tough issues are aired out for the world to see. Things like Pooh Style dress codes, big carrots, and the intricacies of Texas culture are all fair game.
Oh, and if you happen to be a Spurs fan you’ll get along well with Mr. Jackalope.
Maxwell’s American Cafe & Pub sure sounds formal for such a casual place. Maxwell’s is a bar at restaurant at the corner of 12th & Washington in Minneapolis. It’s close to the Metrodome, so it’s a good spot for a pre or post-game brew.
Maxwell’s has great chicken wings and drink specials. It’s one of the more affordable locations in downtown during happy hours.
The TVs were recently upgraded to HD, so the screens project more detail than your drunk ass can process.
Traffick.com is a long-popular search industry blog written by Toronto resident and principle of pay per click marketing firm, Page Zero, Andrew Goodman.
If you’re looking for information on the latest changes to the Google AdWords ad platform, historical context on Yahoo’s latest move, or editorial coverage of the latest search marketing conference, Traffick.com is the place to go.
bLaugh.com is self-described as, “The (Un)Official Comic of the Blogosphere.” I don’t know about you, but if I’m looking for a good RSS joke, this is the first place I go.
More precisely, it’s the first place I look in my RSS aggregator for an RSS joke.
Check out the site, and join the conversation in the comments thread attached to each comic.
Topix.net is a news aggregation site, news forum, and classifieds site. While Topix.net may look in many ways like a typical newspaper site, it’s different in one very important way: it doesn’t have any reporters. The news stories displayed on Topix are aggregated from newspapers, AP wires, blogs, and other news sources to create the unique news format.
What makes Topix.net particularly interesting is the site’s ability to create custom local homepages based on city or zip code searches. Try entering your hometown’s city or zip code to see how Topix.net builds a page just for you that probably includes news sources you may not even be aware of or read regularly.
TECH cocktail is a series of tech-focused parties that bring together entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, programmers, marketers, and anyone else with an interest in both technology and cocktails.
The next TECH cocktail event will be held Thursday, January 25, 2007 from 6:30pm – 9pm at the base of the NBC Tower at Amira in Chicago.
The event co-founders are Frank Gruber and Eric Olson who were interviewed by Technology Evangelist at the last TECH cocktail event.
CrooksAndLiars.com is one of the most popular political blogs on the web today. The blog uses a combination of written posts and video clips from 24 hour news channels and other news sources to shed light on unethical behavior by government officials.
TreeHugger.com> is an environmental blog that focuses on informing consumers about green products available on the market today. The site demonstrates in post after post that consumers can live greener lives if they make small but significant choices when buying clothes, a car, remodeling their homes, or buying food.
TreeHugger makes it easier to take pride in what you purchase by turning you into an informed green shopper.
All Four Seasons is the personal blog of some guy named Kirk from a second-ring suburb of Minneapolis. As you can tell from his blog, Kirk’s into running, travel, sports, and beer.
All Four Seasons was off to a slow start, but Kirk seems to be finding his groove with not one but TWO posts today.
Rain City Guide is a real estate blog based in the Seattle area and run by a team of real estate related experts who contribute posts on their areas of expertise ranging from home staging, market conditions, real estate technology, to real estate industry politics.
MNSpeak is a community based Minnesota centric news discussion blog.
What the heck does that mean?
It means anyone can submit a link and short comment about a Minnesota related news story, and the rest of the community can then comment on the submitted stories.
Popular topics include goings on with local restaurants, media outlets, and suburban vs urban core rivalries.
Converstations is the business blog of Mike Sansone, the Conversation Conductor at Converstations.
Mike does a great job explaining both the power of creating a business conversation through blogging and pointing to technical resources on how to make your blog as powerful a tool as possible to extend your conversations to an appropriate audience.
Post Secret is a fascinating confessional blog where the viewers send in their deepest, darkest secrets on postcards that are then scanned and posted to the site. The site allows people to be both amazingly public about their most-secret secrets while still remaining anonymous.
Pedal Pub is just that: a pub on wheels that moves with pedal power created by the team of drinkers, er, bikers, er, we’re not really sure how to define them.
The Pedal Pub lands in Minneapolis March 1st, so if you’re in the Upper Midwest, here’s your chance to get in a ride and a brew at the same time.
