Apple REALLY Loves HTML5

June 4, 2010

Everyone by now has heard the smack-talk coming from the Apple campus about how Adobe’s Flash is a buggy and antiquated technology that Apple refuses to support on its mobile devices.  To further “prove” their opinion Apple has launched an HTML5 Showcase…that of course can only be viewed using their Safari browser. So, its actually [...]

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The Real Deal With Google’s New Search Update “Caffeine”

August 14, 2009

By now I am sure you have heard about Google’s new search infrastructure upgrade / update called “Caffeine”. Anytime Google makes a change to how their search functions it is big news…based on what people are saying this is one of their biggest updates since the “Big Daddy” update of 2005. From the Google Webmaster [...]

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Twitter 101 for Business…by Twitter

July 28, 2009

No one can deny that Twitter has become a game changer. Gone are the days where social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace ruled the online world – now, no matter where you turn someone is talking about Twitter. However, regardless of the amount of buzz, the ability for Twitter to actually monetize its popular [...]

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Create Your Own Search Marketing Job! The JAR Group gets creative…

July 16, 2009

Today I got an interesting email from a former co-worker with the subject line of  “The JAR Group wants you to create your own *damn* search marketing job!”. Since I have never heard of The JAR Group before I was a bit skeptical about what this really entailed. However, I was easily convinced that this [...]

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The Big 3 Search Engines Need Some SEO Love

July 9, 2009

I randomly searched for the term “Search Engine” in Google this morning and was very surprised at the results. The three big search engines ( Google, Yahoo and Bing) all ranked below the top 3 prime spots -  Google was 4th, Bing was 5th and Yahoo was 7th.  However, I was more shocked to see  [...]

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Is The Future Of Search Real-time?

June 22, 2009

Is there any greater buzz right now when it comes to Search Engines then the promise of real-time search? Over the past couple of weeks I have had numerous conversations revolving around the possibilities brought on by Twitter search and the promise of real-time. But, is it really the future of search? Depends on who [...]

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Do People Really Think Digg Ads Will Succeed?

June 4, 2009

The monetization of any “Web 2.0″ website is a hot topic, regardless of how much traffic and/or buzz they have. At some point you have to make money, not just spend it. Digg, the leader in social bookmarking, announced yesterday their plans to further monetize their traffic by incorporating ads into the main Digg “river” [...]

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