This is the personal site of Dan Grossman, founder of Awio Web Services LLC. Read my profile, see what I've created in my portfolio and find some of my open source contributions here.
WP Review Site is For Sale Sold
I have listed my WP Review Site product for sale on Flippa. The listing is here, bidding is open for one month, and the buyout is $125,000.
Spam Filter For Your Twitter Followers
I’m tired of checking the profile of everyone that follows me on Twitter to decide whether to follow them back. At the same time, I don’t want to follow everyone, or I’ll add spammers, and I do want to know what most of the people that follow me have to say. I created Follow Ham [...]
W3Counter WordPress Plugin Updated
W3Counter’s official WordPress plugin has gotten a much needed rewrite for WordPress 2.8+. You can now view your blog’s web stats within your wp-admin dashboard and add the tracking code to any sidebar as a widget.
Explaining Twitter
I use Twitter. So do millions of other people — it’s now the third largest social network. But it’s not another Facebook or MySpace, and a lot of people don’t understand just what it is. Here’s an analogy borrowed from a post I made on a forum: Twitter is like a forum where the default [...]
WP Calais Auto Tagger Updated (v1.3.1)
WP Calais Auto Tagger has been updated to version 1.3 and works on new versions of WordPress again. This is a complete rewrite of the tagging interface to hopefully make the plugin more resilient — it’s been breaking when WordPress releases new versions too often for my liking. Now it replaces the WordPress tag interface [...]
PayPal Disputes and Intangible Goods
If you sell services, downloadable software, ebooks or other intangibles through PayPal, you should understand how various types of disputes and fraud can affect you. The rules, and the balance of power in various types of disputes within PayPal’s system, are very different when you don’t sell trackable physical goods. Buyer Complaints, Escalated Claims, Unauthorized [...]
WP Review Site 3.0
WP Review Site’s gotten a major version number increase to reflect a large number of substantial feature boosts, making it much more flexible and much easier to use without touching any code. Version 3 lets you add Amazon-style star ratings and user reviews to any WordPress site on a per-post, per-page and per-category basis. It [...]
w3roi is live
I am writing up the announcement e-mails to send to my lists tonight announcing it: w3roi is open for business. Even if you’re not looking for a new way to track your online advertising and get more sales out of your advertising spend, if you read my blog, you’re probably involved with online business in [...]
My new marketing blog
While w3roi isn’t ready for prime time yet, I’ve started writing for the new blog over there, Inside Online Marketing. I’ll be writing about one post a week on advertising, marketing, PPC/SEM, increasing conversions and other related topics.
WP Calais Auto Tagger Updated (v1.2)
I just updated the Calais Auto Tagger plugin for WordPress, which generates tag suggestions for your blog posts using the Calais semantic API. It now requests “social tags” (a new addition in their API) as well as the entity types it was picking up before, and should work with WordPress 2.8 once again.