Vladimir's Blog

How to use Twitter as an effective testimonials tool

Nov 25th, 2011

Favorites! Use "Add to Favorite" to select any tweet that speaks nicely about your service. Then simply link to your favorites as a basic form of testimonials. Here you can check out ManageWP testimonials which is an automatically generated Twitter page containing tweets we fave'd. Taking the idea step further you can integrate the live tweet feed of favorite tweets on your website. One of the ways of doing is with a simple script like twitter text.

Startups

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Do NOT fail at customer support

Nov 24th, 2011

As I use more and more startups, I witness many forgetting the importance of user support, to the extent that it hurts. This post is to promise myself that my startup won't suck at user support. Startup stage It seems by definition that the smaller company is, the better support they will have. This is mostly true thanks to the fact that in this stage you will usually get support directly from the founders.

Debate, Startups

Automatic SSH login with Putty

Nov 23rd, 2011

If you use Putty to connect via SSH to your websites often, you might save a lot of time by automating the whole process through few simple steps.You will need PuTTYgen which you can download here Start it and click generate to generate a random key Enter a pass-phrase for the private key (I recommend not skipping this step, but entering something simple like a three digit number). Save the file. Copy the generated public key (that's the whole content of the box beginning with ssh-rsa ...).

Leisure

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Intelligent ramblings of mr. Clarkson

Nov 22nd, 2011

Image from one of my favorite Top Gear specials, the North Pole Expedition I am talking of course about Jeremy Clarkson, the Top Gear presenter, and his book 'For crying out Loud'. For most of the time I find Clarkson simply ingenious. The man is gifted with a unique talent to see through complicated things, and present them in a simple manner. Although there are some things I don't agree with him his book is a perfect read for a vacation. Does this quote leave you indifferent?

Leisure

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