Facebook is about ready to release its initial public offering (IPO) in May. There is a lot of speculation about their pricing and volumes of stock, but overall we expect the Facebook release to be very hyped and amped up. So be ready for Apple style prices and fast changes from investors responding to the release news. [...]
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Advertising, Google News, News, Search Engines, SEO
The market commonly known as online advertising was created by Google in an attempt to monetize search. As one of the early pioneers of search technology, they were required to create value for consumers and advertisers by providing quality search results. Slowly overtime, Google created one of the largest search engines in the world, boasting [...]
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The United States federal trade commission has called for stronger regulation of the information, often “consumer data”, collected by major U.S. corporations that accumulate a diverse and massive amount of personal, financial information about millions of consumers. The FTC is pushing for a provision that would allow people access to the information being collected on them. Helping [...]
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Advertising, News, Social Media
Zynga has become quite a household name over the past few years. Whether people actually know they are using a Zynga product or not, the majority of American Facebook users have most likely come across something Zynga owns or was in the process of acquiring. There continued success is an indicator that he is doing [...]
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Google wants to be the leader in _________ . a) Social Media b) Search Engines c) Free Email d) Business Support/Communications e) Smartphones f) pretty much everything.. There is no doubt that Google is excelling, if not leading, in most of these markets whether they offer products and/or services to those consumers. Much of what [...]
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Blogging is all about writing. Pretty obvious, but many bloggers only see that far, fail. You’ve got to be planning and researching your writing subjects for the end-users that you are trying to reach online. If you are running an e-commerce or business website, than your customers are looking for specific articles that relate to your products [...]
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Being good at search engine optimization doesn’t always have to do with link building and social media, the main focus is still on getting your content to engage and convert users. Whether this is toward your product, services, or building subscribers, you need users to gain power and influence on the web. That influence can [...]
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XML = extensible markup language This specific purpose for XML and their developers was to design a new coding system that is easily read by humans and machines. With that accomplished, XML had to conform to all W3C and web standards to produce the current, highly effective XML code of today. XML Sitemaps are very [...]
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1. Content is king Matt Cutt’s “content is more important than SEO” Look at your competition – how good are their posts? how often are they posting? what kind of social media is involved? The more content you have, the more search results you can pull organic traffic from Add keywords and be original (keyword [...]
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The Mozilla Labs Apps project allows the original creators, devs and coders, to design beautiful, complex HTML5 app experiences that can be used by any device:desktops, smartphones, tablets, and whatever else comes along. Mozilla apps will be able to accomplish this universal application with the use of new web standards and open technologies such as [...]
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Interested in world statistics? What is the average lifespan of an American citizen vs. other countries citizens? Want to find out the current greenhouse emissions statistics? Or maybe your interested in economics data for hundreds of countries throughout our globe, business statistics vary with GDP to entrepreneurs, small business owners to corporate energy users. Google’s [...]
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Google’s Android platform has been receiving a lot of press over the past few weeks. The announcement of 10 billion Android market app downloads, the Google+ app update, and the new customized search features for Androids. It is obvious that Google is having tremendous success with the Android OS. They have spend a lot of [...]
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The web around us is being constantly scanned, crawled, and indexed by thousands of different robots each day. Some of which are there to find new pages, content, and media while others are looking for more malicious things like emails, phone numbers, etc. Either way, your websites are guaranteed to receive thousands of visits each [...]
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AdWords releases new pay-per-click ads that include an email sign-up box. This lead generation form can be for offers, coupons, discounts, and a thousand more reasons, but its simply an easier way for companies to generate massive email lists to spam. There are some perks to this setup helping some companies get leads quicker and [...]
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Not long after the announcement of the Android Market breaking 10 billion app downloads, Google introduces new improved features for devices using the platform. What is different? Android devices are now able to display movie results in a very user friendly manner. Google doesn’t say in their announcement that geo location plays a part in [...]
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Our video of the week comes from RSAnimate, www.theRSA.org. It jumped out at us because of the overall experience when watching the video for the first time, it grabs hold of your senses, thoughts, and opinions quickly. There aren’t a whole lot of people who are capable of drawing at this level, but that isn’t [...]
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Google has introduced us all to their new, Schemer platform. A social media tool for people to go out and explore new cities, events, and locations through reviews, sharing, and blogging of sorts. It works by users posting activities, reviews, blog posts, and more content when visiting locations, events, and more. These user reviews and [...]
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Earlier today Google released information about integration of Google+ features into Gmail. This does not come as much of a surprise as the two services are already very similar. Those who use Gmail and Google+ on a regular basis will probably find the new features to their liking. Contacts and emails can be organized by [...]
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