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Yes, I’m picking up where I left off, like nothing ever happened.

Spent some time with Meatspace Marketing today. I used Adam Salter’s sitemap_generator to help me build a decent sitemap. I wanted to have all my Organizers and Events listed for some google juice.

To make it juicier I used Norman Clarke’s friendly_id (which is awesome) so I could have organizers in my site map that looked like http://meatspacemarketing.com/organizers/prince-william-county-regional-chamber-of-commerce. And events that looked like http://meatspacemarketing.com/events/freeni-lorton-2010-03-02. Really cool stuff, I’ll never try to do this on my own again.

Interesting tidbits from around the web:

• Fetch – Before we built BDDCasts.com from scratch we looked at Spree to see if we could use rather than build. Spree was tied to a physical inventory and there were some plugins that tried to handle digital assets and infinite inventory but none of them felt right. Fetch handles digital assets and supports a ton of options for payment including Shopify and Google Checkout.
• FFF Tusj – A pretty cool font that Curtis had found.
• The Six Landing Page Conversion Rate Factors – I joined the Micropreneur Academy and Startup Todo and have been getting pretty serious about actually making money off the software I write and not just my time to write it. Lots of other things I need to figure out how to do or pay other people to do that doesn’t involve code, this is but one of them.
• kall8 – Toll Free Number for $2 month. I pay for Skype and have Google Voice so I’m not sure if it’s worth it or not, but I’ll keep it in my delicious.
• vCloud Express – an offering from Hosting.com. Not exactly the heroku model but as more of these people get into the space hopefully I can move all my apps to the cloud and not admin another box while not going broke at the same time.