In the past I would either create a bookmark or send an email to myself as a reminder to visit it again when I had more time.  The problem with both of those solutions is that the information I saved was now competing for my attention with a lot of other unorganized pieces of information.

Recently I’ve turned to Read It Later.  This service helps you do just what you think…save things to read later.  They have addons for all the major browsers, as well as apps for the iPhone, iPad and Adroid devices (and much more).  Whenever and wherever you find content you want to read later, you can send it to your Read It Later account.  Than when you have time to actually sit and read, all your unread content is ready for you.

This has been very handy when browsing on my smart phone, but I’ve really started to use it a lot while checking Facebook and Twitter.  I know that if I come back to those services later, the information I wanted to look at will have been pushed off the front page and I’m likely to never remember to even look for it.  Now I can quickly add it to my Read It Later queue and come back to it when I have time.

For more information visit their website.

They have recently made the news during their cleanup projects:

73 bags of garbage pulled from rivers

Cleanup crew pulls exotic reptile from creek

Here is a nice graphical view of design mistakes that can drive visitors away from your website.

What Makes Someone Leave A Website?

Engagement Ratio Per Platform

According to this recent study, if you are maintaining a Facebook page, it is worth the extra time to log in and post from Facebook instead of using a third party service to post updates.

EdgeRank’s study found that, “using a 3rd party API to update your Facebook Page decreases your engagement per fan (on average) by about 70%.”

Why such a large decrease?

Facebook, the study believes that “Facebook strategically reduced the weight of objects created through the API. The reason behind this strategy would be to encourage more content creation within the Facebook Platform. This ultimately increases the value of their platform while increasing ad impressions.”

The Wolverines start the quest for their 6th WPIAL Championship

It’s football season and this year Web Landings is proud to be a sponsor of the Woodland Hills Football Network, which broadcasts all of the Woodland Hills football games on radio and cable television.

Broadcasts will be carried live on the radio and on TV, as well as live and archived on two websites. Radio coverage will be on WLFP AM-1550 in Pittsburgh. Internet coverage will be live on 1550wlfp.com, as well as live and archived on msasports.net. Home games will be live on TV on Monroeville Area Comcast channel 4 & 13 and Penn Hills Area Comcast channel 98.

From dilbert.com

Like a house, a good website needs to start with a good plan and a good foundation.  It’s worth your time to figure out who you want to reach and how to best communicate your ideas before you start actually building.