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Tangerines v. Oranges: Variances of Measuring Traffic on the Web

Sunday, May 2nd, 2010

According to a Nielsen study, the average U.S. Internet user spends more time on Facebook (FB) than Google, Amazon, Yahoo!, YouTube and Wikipedia combined.
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7 Ways to Frustrate Your Website Visitor

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

Most of you have heard of all the ways to improve you site, and there are many.  Perhaps you make a mental note and say to yourself “I’ll have to add that on our next revision.” (more…)

Google Takes a Lesson From Gandhi

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

Google, and its unofficial slogan, Don’t be evil, may be calling it quits in China due to repeated cyber-attacks (now being dubbed Aurora) that the company says originated within China’s borders. The attacks were reported to target up to 34 companies total, including Adobe Systems and other technology firms based in the U.S according to today’s Wall Street Journal. (more…)

Bada BING!-How MSN’s Search Engine Provides New Features

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

It doesn’t quite roll off the tongue like the ubiquitous, “I googled you.” But in the quest to define the differences between a helpful Google search and Bing by MSN, we “binged” (more…)

Twitter’s Sweet Tweets

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

Three weeks ago, Ted Koppel was the guest speaker at a luncheon at The Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas. He was taking all the listeners on a trip back over 40 years ago to the Vietnam War, and how his news coverage made the journey into the homes of Americans. After interviews and footage was shot, it was taken to a nearby (more…)

Mobile Marketing – Web 3.0?

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

Back in the 1980’s it was considered avant-garde to have a “car phone,” and it was a car phone since it was the size of a large brick, or required a suitcase to actually make it mobile. Flash forward to 2009, and we are on the verge of a mobile marketing extravaganza. In 2008, 140 million “smart phones” were sold, as defined by phones with Internet capability. In 2010, (more…)

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