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Cellfire Brings Coupons to Your Phone and More

Here lately I’ve been really paying attention to trying to save some money wherever possible. I don’t consider myself a hardcore coupon person, but if I see a coupon for something we buy regularly, then I’ll save it and use it.

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The Cellfire website brings that pin-point item selection right to you. What’s nice is they deliver those coupons to you in a way that’s probably as convenient as possible and something you’ve already got with you at the store: your cell phone and a store savings card.

Cellfire is the premier destination for valuable savings on groceries, shopping, restaurants, and entertainment. Get access and use offers from your PC and/or mobile phone. This service is provided free of charge to all users.* Our retail partners sponsor the offers and discounts — at no cost or obligation to you. With Cellfire, you’ll never have to print, clip, or forget your coupons again!

The method I’m most interested in is the ability to store coupons right on my grocery savings card. No need to carry anything extra around with me or remember to bring the coupon into the store with me.

Start uncovering some free money in your grocery list today with Cellfire.

Thanks to Nickilaycoax on twitter for the link

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Email Alias / Forwarders A No-No?

I received an email today from a hosting company that one of my clients uses saying that they were no longer going to allow usage of email aliases anymore. In the email they stated that the usage of the aliases may cause their servers to be listed as spammers.

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I’ve never heard of this being an issue with servers, so it was a bit of a surprise for me. I’ve been using and recommending using email aliases and forwarders for years. I’ve never read anything else about using them causing spam or causing the email servers to be listed as spammers either.

Has anyone else heard of this?

This would be a huge impact to a variety of users I would expect. No longer could you make use of simple aliases like [email protected] to be auto-forwarded to a group of users easily.

Instead the email address would have to be setup with its own account password and login instructions. Then one user would have to manage that account and manually forward to a team of users or figure out some other form of distribution for the emails received.

If you’ve heard of this or have proof that there really is a risk of email hosting servers being tagged as spammers due to alias usage, please let me know.

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Who Follows Whom on Twitter

When you spend a lot of time on twitter, you’re probably making lots of friends. One of the features that I think is great on Facebook is the mutual friends display. I use this frequently to determine if I should already know this person or perhaps what the context is of the reason I should know them.

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Although not quite as easy to do within the twitter interface, there is a similar tool available from the Who Follows Whom website.

Who Follows Whom allows you to put in multiple twitter usernames, up to 5, and see who are the people that both people are following and who are the people that are following each twitter user.

The Who Follows Whom website is a nice little tool to use to find more people that may share the same interests and expertise as you and your other trusted friends and followers on the micro-blogging site.

The ability to put in multiple names, up to 5, really allows you to fine-tune and search for people that have a potentially very tight relationship and integration with other members of a group.

The next time you’re wondering who to follow or who that person is that may be following you, see how everyone is connected with Who Follows Whom.