Monthly Archives: August 2009
IPhone 3GS – Why I Love it!
After years of frustration with cell phones and PDAs, I can finally say that I have THE ONE. Not that IPhone is a well kept secret or that this is such a great revelation. However, I want to share my insights with our readers.
Posted in Technology / Equipment Tagged Blackberry Storm, bookmarks, digital camera, iphone 3gs, mac, mobile me, pc, poor synching Leave a comment
WordPress Design
WordPress is a great CMS (Content Management System) that allows the user to blog about their everyday life, business, and /or personal interests. Like many bloggers out there on the web, this is a form of expression and what better way to express one’s self on a blog then with an appealing theme. I personally like a nice clean and sleek theme that exudes elegance such as the fusion theme that can be found at http://dev.digitalnature.ro/fusion/wordpress/. This theme has many good qualities such as good use of white space, interactivity and a good color scheme.
Posted in Website Design Tagged bloggers, CMS, color scheme, content management system, fusion theme, white space, WordPress Design, wordpress theme Leave a comment
Security Implications of Social Media
We usually focus on the positives that social media can bring about, but right now we are going to hop to the other side of the fence for a bit and discuss some of the dangers that can arise via social media. Not too long ago, I was called out at work for something that was posted on my Facebook. It wasn’t anything offensive, just one of my friends happened to go on my profile while I was logged in, and put an unsettling status about me, which made my friends think that I put it about myself. Sure, it was all fun and games to my social circle, but when things like this get brought up at your place of business, it makes one think about the effects that social media can have on one’s life, safety, security, perceived character, and well being.
Yahoo and Bing Teaming up Against Google
In a move to take some of the momentum away from Google, Microsoft has re-entered their negations with Yahoo. It could potentially “give Microsoft roughly 30 percent share of the online search market.” (AdAge, http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=138138). For those of us in the search industry, this is some very significant news. What does this mean to internet marketing? and Will we have to make added effort in diversifying our PPC accounts? More importantly, will we no longer only worry about how visible we are in the eyes of Google?
Bing Adds Farecast Technology to Their Search
Have you seen the commercials for Bing’s new Farecast Technology feature? I liked the new look of the new MSN search when Bing was released by Microsoft. However, even though the search results are more organized , half of my search queries are images. Bing has not been able to match up to the abundance [...]
Posted in Search Engines Tagged bing, Farecast Technology, find airline tickets, google, search engine, search engine market, search results, travel tools 1 Comment
Conan O’Brien is Googling with the Stars
I’m thrilled that Conan O’Brien is the new Tonight Show host. He really induces the much needed LOL’s after a long day. Last night as I faithfully tuned in to NBC to catch his show, I noticed for the second night in a row that Bing is one of the show’s sponsors running at least one commercial during each commercial break. As I began to write that observation down in my notepad, the show comes back on and Conan introduces a segment called “Googling with the Stars”. This blew me away; this is a huge and significant product placement advertisement for Google.
Using Social Media to Screen Employees