Archive for October 16th, 2007
« Previous EntriesGOOG-411 Is Out Of Beta
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007This is another post that shows Google is one more step closer to world domination (Internet Marketing)
The Google Blog announced that GOOG-411, Google’s voice enabled search service, is now out of beta.
To use GOOG-411 just dial 1-800-466-4411 (aka 800-GOOG-411) and listen to the voice prompts. As part of a promotion for GOOG-411 leaving beta, Google [...]
Photoshop’s Blend If: An Overview
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007Blend If is very much an overlooked and even mysterious feature to almost any Photoshop user. If you ever tried looking this feature up in manuals and books, you may not have been able to find it. In fact even searching Photoshop Help will not yield a title with Blend If in it (though the [...]
Google Tops Feed Reader and Social Bookmark Rankings
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007Some interesting audience-engagement data just came out from AddThis.com, which ranks the top feed readers and bookmarking services by how actively they are used. These rankings are based on how many times people across the Web add a link to a bookmarking service or a feed to an RSS reader using the AddThis button. (That’s [...]
Improving Google Adwords Campaign Profitability Through the Elimination of Low Quality Clicks
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007With increased competition leading to higher keyword prices, one of the most important metrics in a search marketing campaign is the conversion rate of clicks to actions. An action might be a sale, a lead, or any other desirable, quantifiable result. Faced with increasing keyword prices, maintaining an acceptable return from a search marketing budget [...]
source code
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007Program instructions in their original form. The word source differentiates code from various other forms that it can have (for example, object code and executable code).Initially, a programmer writes a program in a particular programming language. This form of the program is called the source program, or [...]
Web 2.0 and Social Media Optimization Trends: Memetrackers
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007I have been scoring the Internet the last few days trying to find resources related to Web 2.0 and/or Social Media Optimization and I came across the idea of “Memetracker Web Sites.” From a Web 2.0 perspective these sites are geared towards collecting information about “hot topics” or things that create a “buzz” in the [...]
Google Hinting at Its Own Social Network?
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007Unlike our good friend Steve, Eric Schmidt is one of the “true believers” in social networking. Perhaps he’s just one of the “younger people” (or younger at heart people) that Ballmer said were so absorbed in the faddish nature of social networking, even though he is a couple months older than Ballmer.
Whatever the case, Schmidt [...]
Facebook Has LinkedIn In Their Crosshairs
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007Facebook may be used for professional networking (particularly in Silicon Valley), but it sure isn’t set up to be. People’s profiles are all about their dating status, pictures, videos and other very personal information. It’s perfect for college dorm networking, but not so much for job or business development hunting.
LinkedIn, by contrast, is set up [...]
Google hints at secret plan for search
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007Most good Google stories come with an element of mystery. This one is no different. Speaking at the Zeitgeist conference, Google CEO Eric Schmidt hinted to attendees that the company has big plans for using the social networking juggernaut to improve its search capabilities.
According to a New York Times report, Schmidt called social networking a “very [...]
Why MySpace just won’t cut it
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007Social networking for companies means more than putting up a MySpace page. Learn from Neighborhood America’s exec VP how to drive engagement and profits.
Social networking is here to stay. With a reported 114 million people frequenting MySpace, and another 52 million connecting through Facebook (source: comScore, June 2007), consumers have grown to expect opportunities for [...]