Turn Twitter Pink
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Today is the start of breast cancer awareness month. During the month of October you are likely to see more information about breast cancer than you may have seen all year. The difference is that you can help spread the word by focusing on the topic for at least one month. It’s easy. All you have to do is stumble, delicious, digg, reddit, kirtsy whatever article you see related to increasing awareness.
Help increase the flow of the topic on the web and help save the tatas.
Oh and one more thing you can do. Turn Twiiter Pink. Do you remember Green Friday, the ode to @gregboser?
Just imagine it looking like this…
So step up and go pink!
SEOktoberfest Wrap Up
Wow! I don’t know where to start. This was the event to top all events and by far the best city I’ve ever been to. Germans can party like no other people I’ve ever met. Not only that, they are super nice too. I mean the city of Munich is on my Top Ten List of cities you should visit. As far as Oktoberfest itself…what a party! The grounds are packed with standing room only unless you are lucky enough to get a table in the tents. If you don’t have reservations for this ahead of time don’t bother trying as it’s nearly impossible. Wearing traditional lederhosen and drindl is a must in order to experience the German culture, but don’t worry because you can buy the whole outfit almost anywhere in the city. SEOktoberfest was so phenominally awesome that I even gave it its own category on the blog.
As far as the actual conference part of SEOktoberfest…ehm…All I can tell you about what happened is that I can’t really tell you anything. I will say that Marcus and Quadzilla were unbelievably amazing hosts. I mean they were able to keep track of all of us all the time and nobody got lost. They took us to two elite clubs in Munich (after spending hours in the elite tents of Oktoberfest) and showered us with champagne (literally). They had five lovely German playmates there to entertain everyone after hours. We were provided with everything we needed from food, to drinks to the lederhosen and drindl. I think it’s safe to say this was a non-profit event.
As far as the picture of Greg in the lederhosen, all I can say is I
FAILED. It’s hard to think about stuff like that when you are drinking
multiple steins of beer and wearing a drindl. All I can show you is this picture that Marcus has on his blog. Greg is on the left and you can kind of see me behind one of the playmates.
Thanks again to Marcus, Quadzilla and Philip for dreaming this up and going through with it.
So with that, I’ll leave you to your imagination. The rest you’ll have to see if we’re friends on Facebook. 
Or you can go to Marcus’s post about the best SEO party in the world!!
(Bonus: If you go to my Facebook pics, you’ll get to see Dax in his lederhosen. I managed to get that picture. :P)
Auf Wiedersehen!
Changes at StumbleUpon
I woke up this morning to a nice Stumble Upon surprise. It looks like you can now friend over 200 people on Stumble. The only thing is that after you add friends it seems to be taking a while for you friends list to update (if it ever does) and same with the toolbar.
Here’s some of the new changes I stumbled upon this morning.
After opening my inbox I discovered this message:
This is new and I like it because it gives you an indication that someone has friended you where as in the past, the only way you’d know is if you knew what the fan number was on a daily basis.
So after accepting the friend request nothing different happened, other than I was curious and started adding people to see if it would let me…and it did.
This is what you see now to add friends.
SU is also telling you if you have similar interests
So apparently there is a limit with how many friends you can add at any given time. I got this message after about 15 or so.
They have also changed the name of fans to subscribers and like I said before, the page with your fans subscribers is not updating right away so I have no idea who I added this morning. At least I know they’ll get a message from me though.
Lastly…avatars now come with the online indicator next to them. Not too sure if I care about that, but I guess it’s nice to know if someone is online at a glance instead of having to look at their page.
I have not found an official announcement and did not find anything on the SU website stating this, but I do know that I’ve been maxed out on friends for a long while and was able to add more this morning. I hope they leave it like this. Who needs Ebay anyway? 
Google Chrome Hits the Web
Google’s new web browser Chrome hits the internet today and Google is now even better positioned to take over the world.
I just downloaded the browser and will be learning about its features today, but here is a breakdown of what those new features are:
New Tab Page
A small plus sign gets you a new tab that will show you your most recent visits, recently bookmarked sites, etc.
Application Shortcuts
Open web apps such as GMail write from your desktop without opening your browser. This is really a cool feature and it saves your passwords so accessing your Gmail is now a double click on your desktop. Nice.
Dynamic Tabs
This is similar to Firefox where you can drag the url right down to your browser tool bar.
Crash Control
This will probably be one of my favorite features. If your browser crashed Google Chrome will only have to close the tab you are browsing instead of the entire browser.
Incognito Mode
If you want to be stealthy while browsing the web and leave no trace of where you’ve been or what you’ve been up to try this new incognito feature.
Safe Browsing
Google Chrome will alert you if you’ve arrived at a site that may have a malicious intention. (phishing, malware, etc)
Instant Bookmarking
All you have to do is click on the star to the right of the toolbar and voila you are bookmarked!
Import Settings
All of your bookmarks, passwords, browsing history and settings will be imported to Google Chrome at the time you download it.
Simple Downloading
No more download manager window. The download status will be displayed at the bottom of the window.
The other cool feature is that when you are using Google chrome the Google search box is chrome.
So far so good Google. Thanks for adding some bling to my search box.
What’s missing…Home button and lots of awesome FF plug-ins.