My local friend George Decarlo has created a new web service called Woobox that allows businesses to create offers especially for Facebook fans or Twitter followers. It’s a free and easy way to reward current customers, attract new ones, and promote your business.

To use Woobox, just sign up for an account, then create a new offer. Supply a title, details, and any restrictions, then choose various offer details (like when it should end and whether it should have a fixed or unlimited number of coupons).

Woobox can automatically generate coupon codes for your promotion, a huge plus if you’re concerned about fraud. It also gives you the option of limiting coupons to one per e-mail address or one per Facebook/Twitter user.

Finally, choose who’s allowed to get the coupon: anyone, anyone who follows you on Twitter, or anyone who “likes” you on Facebook.

With that done, you’ll get a URL you can share wherever. Folks who click the link will see the few steps they need to complete to get the coupon. Simple as that!

Woobox lets you keep tabs on each offer’s status, number of views, number of coupons redeemed, and so on. It’s a terrific little service for any business looking for easy, effective, and inexpensive social-media promotions.

Being on the Web means that we have an ever-increasing contact list and those contacts have an also-increasing number of means of contact. Between email, Facebook, Twitter, RSS feeds and more, it can be hard to keep track of who we know, where they are, and what they are up to.

Gist, however, makes it easy, by syncing with your various accounts, it unifies your contact list into one easily-digested list that is sorted by importance and includes all means of contact.

Install Gist for Firefox or Gist for Chrome to get more news, social profiles and automatic updates for all of your contacts
in Gmail, Outlook, and Lotus. Choose your browser to get started.  It also works on Android and iPhones.

Here’s a short video that introduces Gist and what it does with Outlook:

After watching the video I’m thinking about taking it for a test-run? Maybe you are looking for something like this, too?  Check it out!

You can use Google Analytics to see who is viewing your Posterous site. All you have to do is follow these simple steps:

1. Sign up for Google Analytics here. Use your Posterous site url. If you are using a custom domain, use that url instead.
2. Find the Google Analytics Domain ID for your site. This looks something like UA-123456-1.
3. Click Manage » Settings » Analytics to set your Google Analytics Domain ID to that ID you found.
4. You’re done!
5. Sometimes it takes a while for Google to register the new code and gather statistics. Once it does, you can log in to Google Analytics and click “View Report” to see your stats.

Note: page view numbers from Google Analytics may not match those shown on your Posterous manage page. Posterous counts post views from subscriptions and your RSS feed which Google will not.

You might find these links helpful:

• Wikipedia: Google Analytics