Mind of a Young Undergrad Entrepreneur

If you have just finished building your corporate website, submitting your website to online directories may increase your ranking on search engines and generate more page landings.

See the huge list of web directories here: http://www.definiteweb.com/list-of-directories2.htm

There are TONS of directories in that list. However, I only recommend submitting to the major ones, especially the popular search engines:

1) Google - http://www.google.com/addurl/

2) Yahoo - https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit

3) MSN Live - http://search.live.com/docs/submit.aspx

4) Open Directory - http://www.dmoz.org

You should also invest in submitting your website into the Yahoo! Directory. It will cost you $299USD but it’s well worth it! It’s the YellowBook of the internet! Since we’re on the topic, make sure to submit your business in local business directories as well. YellowBook is a must considering it’s popular and FREE.

Peter Kao

I am looking around for a web designer right now to develop my online advertising corporate website (InfluenzaMedia.com), and have posted on popular freelance websites such as Elance.com or Guru.com.

I’ve gotten over 30+ bids for the projected - all with reasonable quotes. However, I have noticed that out of the 30 something companies I looked at, only about 2 or 3 produce decent websites. Most of them claim to be web designers, but I don’t see any design in their work. They all look like cookie-cutters to me…

Maybe Guru.com or Elance.com isn’t the right place to look for talent, despite so many articles proclaiming that they are the prime place to look for online services…

- Peter Kao

I was browsing through a fellow UW undergrad’s blog when I stumbled upon his “Endless Google Search”.

The first thing that went through my mind as I was using it was, “Holy shit. This is awesome.” This just comes to prove that opening up API’s is a really good thing for the world. It allows creative programmers such as Paul (his blog here) the tools and resources to building something as ingenious as his “Endless Google Search.”

Basically, Paul used one of Google’s API’s to create his own search tool, one that uses the Google Search Engine but lists the results in such a way that you don’t need to click on any link to see more results. The mod uses AJAX to load search results, which allows you to simply scroll down to view more. This is a great tool if you are doing research!

Check his tool out here

However, as someone mentioned in the comments for the post, the ‘endlessness’ of the page may incur depression in some people…LET THIS BE A WARNING TO THE WEAK-MINDED

- Peter Kao

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- Peter Kao    

I’m a daily user of Digg.com and it’s just pure awesome. If you haven’t heard already (if you are a techy and haven’t heard of Digg then shame on you!) Digg is a social bookmarking website that allows users to share links to interesting stuff on the internet.

While I was surfing on Digg the other day, I noticed the top stories were composed of mostly stories about Apple.

Kevin Rose must be so proud…

- Peter Kao