I’m sure you’ve all heard about Steve Jobs resigning as CEO of Apple. Today, I read a post that stood out among the sea of farewells and Apple nostalgia. I really didn’t think I would be writing a post about Steve Jobs myself, but this is a great look at the impact domains, especially generic … Continue Reading
Branding, Current Events, Domain Names, Internet, Notable Domain Sales
The latest web development standards, SEO ranking factors and social integrations can be a bit much to keep up with. In 2011, innovative applications for website optimization, user interaction and social media are springing up left and right. I’ve kept watch and tried out many new web development techniques. I’ve also held an active interest in engaging … Continue Reading
Blogging, Current Events, Internet, Scripts & Software, SEO, Social, Tools & Resources, Web Design, Web Development, WordPress
Pete Cashmore, Founder of Mashable was recently interviewed by Bloomberg (Video embedded below). Cashmore reported that Mashable now receives 50 million page-views per month, and has gained an incredible increase of 10 million in the span of 1 month. The publication is branching out to multiple news areas of interest to online readers beyond Technology … Continue Reading
Advertising, Blogging, Current Events, Internet
ReadWriteWeb has confirmed details of Google’s development of a major new social network called Circles. The service will offer photo and video sharing along with status updates that can be sent to specific, customizable social circles. Google is expected to be in the final stages of development and may be showing off a preview at … Continue Reading
Google, Internet, Marketing, Social
PayPal continues to innovate and lead the way in online payments. After optimizing checkout pages to increase usability and considerably reduce shopping cart abandonment in September, PayPal announced plans to develop a system for micropayments. Virtual currency continues to gain steam as the sale of digital goods across social networks like Facebook are proving to be wildly successful. … Continue Reading
Affiliate Marketing, Blogging, Current Events, Internet, Marketing, Web Development
I’ve been inspired recently by some conceptual videos, articles and thoughts I’ve been having about products and services in the future. Some of you know I am a bit of a futurism geek, occasionally sharing technology and innovation that spark my interest on my personal Twitter profile. I’ve also previously shared some resources and ideas … Continue Reading
Affiliate Marketing, Blogging, Internet, Marketing, Web Development
I made the switch from Firefox to Chrome for full time web browsing and research about a year ago and have not looked back. The speed and performance of Chrome, even while loaded up with extensions and dozens of tabs can not be beat. It’s also one of the most secure browsers available today. I’m … Continue Reading
Blogging, Google, Internet, Marketing, Scripts & Software, SEO, Tools & Resources, Web Design, Web Development
Retail giant Amazon.com was reported last week to be severely undercutting diaper and baby needs supplier Diapers.com. Parent company Quidsi also operates Soap.com. Quidsi previously declined several buy-out offers from Amazon. Amazon’s latest acquisition offer came in at $540 million in cash according to Fortune. During hard times, the co-founders reluctantly accepted the offer. There was … Continue Reading
Branding, Domain Names, Internet, Notable Domain Sales
A search engine with a unique twist launched this morning. Blekko aims to do the seemingly impossible and take on Google. Can they convince and convert users with better search results? In this article I will take a look at two promising Blekko features that Google simply can’t and won’t compete with. First, take a … Continue Reading
Google, Internet, Search Engines, SEO
Not familiar with the most popular keywords from a certain niche topic? Time to visit YouTube, but we won’t be watching any videos. Today, SEOMoz is suggesting that browsing video descriptions and comments for related data can be beneficial for SEO research. While reading the text from YouTube video descriptions and comments, copy related terms and enter … Continue Reading
SEO, Tools & Resources, Traffic