Instagram acquired by Facebook for $1billion

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In an announcement earlier today, actually from a post earlier today it was announced that Facebook would be purchasing the hugely popular photo sharing, editing site Instagram.  News of this immediately echoed around silicon valley and tech blogs everywhere, with the LA Times saying, on the news, ”It’s about the only thing that could top Justin Bieber on [...]

Harbortouch POS Announces iPad Tableside Ordering System

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Originally published on Technorati as: Harbortouch POS Announces iPad Tableside Ordering System There have been more than a few companies who have rolled out iPads on an enterprise level. From municipalities using them for surveying to business intelligence and visual communications and now restaurants and even the point-of-sales systems these businesses run on.  Unveiled at the recent Nightclub [...]

iPad 2 Price Drop Makes It Perfect for Enterprise Use, App Development

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Originally published on Technorati here: iPad 2 Price Drop Makes it Perfect for Enterprise Use, App Development The post-PC revolution and its more portable, more personal devices have taken yet another quantum leap forward. When Apple CEO Tim Cook announced the New iPad it became Important to the business crowd because in addition to new devices, Cook also [...]

Google Algorithm Change Focuses on (too much!) Advertising Above the Fold

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Originally published by myself on Technorati as: Google Algorithm Change Requires User-Friendly Page Layout Web publishers and bloggers beware: If you’re displaying many ads “above the fold,” Google’s latest algorithm change may swoop down like a Navy SEAL team on your website. You might suddenly find your Web pages buried, six-feet under on the search [...]

How Much do we Spend on Super Bowl Parties [Infographic]

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The following infographic shows some great insights in to how America spends on the Super Bowl, consumes.  Courtesy of  TurboTax.com. Technorati Tags: Analytics, consumer spending, super bowl

GinzaMetrics Introduces Advanced Conversion Tracking

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Jan. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Ginzametrics, an enterprise-level SEO management and analytics dashboard, announced today it has a new platform that provides ecommerce analytics for SEO, allowing customers to view the keywords that are producing the most related revenue, and then take steps to optimize the related content in real [...]

Ginzamarkets Announces $1.3 Million in Seed Financing for Enterprise SEO Platform

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Ginzametrics SEO Management Helps Enterprises Generate Sales from Traffic and Search Funding to Aid Infrastructure, Staffing Growth and Product Development Mountain View, California– Ginzametrics’ disruptive platform for SEO enables enterprises to increase traffic and sales from organic search through its tight integration with Adobe SiteCatalyst, Google Analytics and other platforms. Users can quickly identify winners [...]

Rakuten Inc. Selects Ginzametrics’ Platform for Enterprise SEO

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Rakuten Inc. Selects Ginzametrics’ Platform for Enterprise SEO Management – Largest Ecommerce Company in Japan Operates Popular Rakuten Ichiba Site Integration of Ginzametrics’ Enterprise SEO Platform Designed to Increase Organic Search Conversions, Optimize Content, and Aid Global Expansion  Mountain View, California, (December 12, 2011) – Ginzametrics, the disruptive enterprise SEO management and analytics platform, announced [...]

Bing to Incorporate Facebook Likes in Algo

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In case you weren’t sure about the power of Social Media and Social Media Optimization, check out this video announcement from Bing.  It talks about the recent decision to incorporate Facebook “likes” in to it’s core search algorithm.  I realize this affects only a fraction of the search market, but if this trend is embraced [...]

October Browser Stats

October 2010 Browser Market Share

The latest information from ZD Net shows Chrome growing and showing no signs of slowing. As more and more plugins are created for Chrome to replace what people would be losing to firefox, people are opting for the security and speed of Chrome over what appears to be a stagnation in Firefox use. IE9 on [...]

Free New Keyword Tools

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If you haven’t looked at the rest of the site and just read the blog articles and view the bookmarks, it’s worth mentioning that I will be building out a comprehensive set of free SEO tools under the services menu for now. Currently there is a Keyword Suggestion Tool and a Niche Keyword Finder.  I [...]

What You Should Know About Eye Tracking

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This is one of the latest slides i could find on eye tracking studies, was looking for something with a bit more meat to it, but this will do. It does leave you with some questions, but that was the intention of Mr. Brignull. Be sure to check out the source here, or click through [...]

Millions of Blogs Now in Real Time

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If you haven’t heard already WordPress announced that all of their blogs now provide RSS Cloud support.  There is a plugin used for self hosted blogs.  Basically what this means is that there is no longer that slight delay in receiving messages. In an age where speed is sometimes more crucial than other factors, some [...]

Google Domestic Trends Predicts Unemployment

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According to a post by Google’s Chief Economist Hal Varian, Google Domestic Trends has been used to mimic variables such as initial claims of unemployment, among other things to predict short economic trends.  Given that one of the biggest leading indicators of economic activity is number of people who file for unemployment this could be [...]

Walt Disney Buys Marvel for $4 Bil.

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The deal announced this morning will bring characters like Iron Man and Spider Man in to the Disney family. 5,000 total Marvel characters will be acquired by Disney in the deal for $4 billion in cash and stock.  The deal still has to go through Marvel stockholders as well as antitrust review.  Marvel would receive [...]

ComScore Reports Increase in Mobile Audience for Local Content

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ComScore recently reported a 51% increase in the number of mobile users looking for local content.  ComScore is a leading measurement and digital intelligence company who stated in a June 9th release that online directories saw the most growth.  From March 2008 to March 2009 online directories  saw a 73% increase in use by on-the-go [...]

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