The Google Analytics Decision
Most of you know that my favorite price for things is "free." (I’ve even put together the Skinflint Internet Marketing Guides for those that want to spend nothing for their campaigns.)
What? Using Sex To Sell Something?
BET.com recently dropped a section of its website offering photos of scantily-clad, suggestively-posed women. BET says they removed their "B-Girls" widgets as part of a phased plan, but one activist claims it was her staunch opposition to seeing men enjoying themselves that led to the removal.
HP Buys Exstream Software
Kentucky’s moving up in the tech world, some parts of it already (and unfortunately) dubbed "Silicon Holler." The latest success comes out of Lexington now that Exstream Software is being acquired by Hewlett Packard.
Reasons to Go to SMX
As many of you already know, last year Danny Sullivan and Chris Sherman kicked off the Search Marketing Expo (SMX). The conference series started with SMX Advanced in Seattle and it was a hit. Compared to most conferences, people actually came away learning new information as well as actually being happy with conference food for the first time (no more boxed lunches).
Using Google Docs to Work on a Book
Currently, my editor Brian Jepson and I are collaboratively writing the book (tentatively titled) Google Office Hacks by O’Reilly using Google Docs. I wanted to outline the process we came up with, and maybe it’s helpful for you too for certain needs.
Web Standards and Devloping for Mobile
I’ve been an avid Mac user for many years, since about 1996, and actually that’s when I started working on the web.
Turner, Nascar Extend Website Agreement
Do you enjoy watching cars drive in circles – sorry, ovals – 200 times? Do you enjoy keeping track of the activity online? If so, you’ll be glad to hear that Turner Broadcasting has extended a contract to keep Nascar.com running.
MPAA Wrong On Piracy Prevalence
The Motion Picture Association of America is the latest poster child for reasons not to trust research put out by entities with vested interests in the results of the research. The MPAA is having to send out word that their previous estimates of movie piracy on college campuses were a bit overstated—by a factor of three.
Experimenting with Live Mobile Video
At yesterday’s launch in London of Edelman’s 2008 Trust Barometer, I did a little experiment with live mobile video that was so easy to do that it’s very clear we’re going to see a great deal more of this.
Sexy Micro-blogging Ensures Twitter Success
Perhaps it was an eventuality. All roads used to lead to Rome; now all superhighways lead to a crotch-shot. But this development is at least a testament to the power of the Twitter concept: the cybersex crowd has taken it up.If a message on Twitter is called a "tweet," is a message on boobik called a "tw…" –never mind.