Need a New Print Shop?
We get things printed from time to time and in order to make sure that I am staying current with the market place – I periodically check into different printing shops to find out which ones have the best prices and which ones can get things to me quickly. Recently I bumped into a company [...]
Cerf To Surf Out, IDNs To Surf In
"The Architect," you might call him, or "The Father of the Internet," or more recently, as Google has titled him, "Chief Internet Evangelist," Vinton Cerf will perform one of his last official functions as Board Chair of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) next month. Cerf To Surf Out, IDNs To Surf [...]
Trick Or Treat, Baby! Top Baby Costume Searches
Ah, babies. Cute, round, fairly pliable and fun to make look silly because they won’t remember it and you’ll get to embarrass them with pictures when they’re teenagers. As Halloween approaches, dressing up baby is a tradition alive and well, or so say the search trends. Trick Or Treat, Baby! Top Baby Costume Searches Yahoo [...]
Google Shares Its Stuff
Google entered the social bookmarking realm today real quiet like, but bloggers found Google’s Shared Stuff anyway. The bookmarking tool can be added by dragging the "Email/Share" button to the browser bookmarks bar, as illustrated on Google’s Shared Stuff webpage. The Email/Share button allows users to share or email webpages with friends, and allows users [...]
PDF Potentially A Malware Vehicle
Proof of concept code demonstrated to Secure Computing showed how Adobe’s popular Portable Document Formet could become a massive attack vector for malware distributors. Paul Henry of Secure Computing first began spreading the word in January about a potentially bad situation with PDF files. Proof of concept code emerged that showed how JavaScript could be [...]
Google To Stop Preannouncing Quality Score Algorithm Changes
The insights into the changes being made to Google’s Quality Score algorithm will no longer be pre-announced – if they are detailed at all – according to a recent post at Inside Adwords blog. “Since our systems frequently visit landing pages and update Quality Scores on a regular basis, we will no longer post advance [...]
Trutap To Enter Mobile Networking Market
I remain wary of itty-bitty screens, but another social network designed for the mobile market is reportedly ready to emerge. This one’s name is Trutap. Of course, it’s not like there are a billion of the things (yet) – the only other mobile social network ever covered by WebProNews appears to be Bluepulse. And as [...]
SEW Experts: Think Local, Act Social
In today’s Vertical Challenge column, “Think Local, Act Social,” local search expert Michael Boland asks what bars, lawyers, restaurants and dog washers have in common? Answer: They all meet at the intersection of local and social search. More: continued here sew experts think local act social
AT&T And ESPN Partner For College GameDay
AT&T announced today that it is partnering with ESPN College GameDay host Chris Fowler and analyst Kirk Herbstreit this fall for "Confessions of a College Football Junkie," a series of weekly video clips available on AT&T 3G wireless handsets. AT&T And ESPN Partner For College GameDay "This is a great addition to the mobile video [...]
SMS Ads Small In U.S., Big In Europe
Close to three-quarters of Western European mobile subscribers received a short message service (SMS) advertisement in July 2007, according to M: Metrics. In its survey of mobile users in Western Europe and the U.S., M: Metrics found that U.S. SMS ad response rates increased 12 percent in July, even though SMS ad volume was down. [...]
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