findingDulcinea Beats Google to Open Web Awards Finals!

Thanks to all who voted in the first round, findingDulcinea (along with two other sites) has made it to the finals of the Mashable Open Web Awards.

You can help us win!

Just vote one time each day from now until Dec. 15 - and tell all your friends to do the same!

To vote go to www.findingdulcinea.com and enter your email address in the voting box in the right hand column - then check your email to confirm the vote - do this once a day from now until dec. 15th.

Help findingDulcinea Beat Google in the Mashable Open Web Awards

Yes we are taking on search giant Google in our quest for a win in the "search and social search" category.

How can you help us? Just use the widget on the right side of this blog, in the category section pull down menu choose "search and social search"

then choose "findingDulcinea" in the company pull down menu

then enter your email address

an email will be sent to you to confirm your vote - you need to click on this for it to count!

Remember: every email address gets one vote every 24 hours - so keep voting every day until december 15th!

Predicting the Winner of the 2008 Pres. Election

So, even with a few glitches at the polls today - it seems that voters are still getting out there and making their votes count.

A coworker showed me this tracker and I think it is a pretty cool way to see all of the predictions (looks like everyone is leaning toward obama right now)

Where to get your election 2008 news

Election day is finally upon us, and to help you get the latest news, here are a few places to get election 2008 coverage.

1. BBC election coverage - It is great to get a little bit of coverage from a different perspective than the US and the BBC is the place to get some outside info on the presidential election

2. findingDulcinea - If you want a little history with your breaking news coverage, this is the place to get it. For the past few months fD has been covering the lead up to the election, and today they've got some great stories about what we learned from the 2000 election, which campaign has more money, the most controversial elections in US history, and general election day coverage. You can even get some laughs with the collection of parody campaign videos.

3. Twitter Votereport - tag your voting day news with #votereport, or check out the page to see what other people are tweeting this election day.

Firefox Tabs Just Got Better

The day I learned about browser tabs my online experience changed for the better - new window? no need. Just Cmd T and you can open a new tab.

Last week I learned how to navigate through those tabs - and I've since become a Web browsing master.

Here are some of those tab tricks (this is for Mac users with firefox 2 - if you have firefox 3 or are using windows - check out mozilla's keyboard shortcuts page).

Move to the next tab Ctrl Tab

Move to the tab to the Right Cmd Option Right Arrow Key (Or use Ctrl Tab)

Move to the tab to the Left Cmd Option Left Arrow Key

Ever close a tab on accident? Fear no more - Cmd Shift T will reopen the last tab you closed.

Love every site you have open in your tabs? Cmd Shift D will bookmark them for you.

And, if tabbing just isn't for you - Cmd N will open a new window.

BloggingDulcinea - We've Got a New Blog

So - we moved our company blog to it's own site and gave it it's own identity.

Check out "Librarian of the Internet" where you'll find ramblings and insight from our writers, researchers, and whoevers about what we're finding on the web, what's going on in the New York startup scene, and other great stuff.

Here's a preview of the blog





Don't worry, just because there is a new kid in town doesn't mean I'm leaving All the Write Sites - there's room in my heart for two blogs (who knows, maybe even three).

Maybe Alexa is on to Me

So - just as I'd divulged the secrets of Alexa Rank in my "improve your alexa rank without even trying" post, Alexa went ahead and changed how they rank things (pretty much meaning that they are now gathering data from more than just the alexa toolbar users).

I hope that some of you enjoyed the last few glory days of abusing the toolbar rank system, and I suppose I should have kept my big mouth shut about it (I'm sure the Alexa developers were sweating in their computer chairs as they read my blog and discovered that I'd unlocked the secret of their system).

For some of you this was probably a change in the right direction (I know for my blog it helped me break the 1 million mark - sort of a big deal) - for some it probably had no effect or minimal effect - and for a few it undoubtedly hurt your rank (and for those folks I'm truly sorry - I know that most of my self esteem is based on my alexa rank value). If you feel confused about why change happened - read Alexa's explanation, it's vague but will give you an idea of what's going on now.

Don't worry, as soon as I figure out how to improve your new alexa rank - I'll let everyone know and Alexa will have to come up with a new algorithm yet again (I had no idea I had so much clout in the internet world).