Mar
28th
links for 2007-03-28
Posted in Daily Reads by del.icio.us at 1:20 pm
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Over the last few years, so much of the talk in our industry has been about tracking ROI, and how it’s imperative to be able to do so before spending a single dollar on paid search. Agreed.
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Now that it’s been a month since discussing how to push the needle in paid search via analysis, it’s time to consider what’s next.
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White papers bring great value to those seeking them, according to a major study of more than 4,000 business-to-business marketing and business professionals.
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Computer scientists at the University of Pittsburgh have developed a way to make e-mails, instant messaging, and texts just a bit more personalized.
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April 24 – 26: ad:tech is an interactive advertising and technology conference dedicated to connecting all sides of today’s brand marketing landscape.
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There’s a lot we, as designers of the web experience, can learn from something as simple as a water glass.
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Yahoo is announcing that all Yahoo Mail users will have free unlimited email storage starting in May 2007.
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According to Reuters, Google is working on a whole news approach to translating from one language into another. To me this is extremely important because the largest single barrier I see to my vision of Global Neighborhoods is language.
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At the Open Data 2007 conference in New York today, David Cancel, the CEO of Compete Inc. revealed that ISPs happily sell clickstream data — and that it’s a big business.
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Google’s free software bundle and thorn in Microsoft’s side, Google Pack, is packing three new applications:
Symantec Norton Security Scan, PC Tools Spyware Doctor Starter Edition, Google Photos Screensaver. -
Best Buy announced today their acquisition of Speakeasy, one of the largest independent VoIP brands in the U.S. The deal included a $97M price tag for Speakeasy, and is expected to be completed early next year.
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Netflix founder Reed Hastings has joined the Microsoft board of directors, indicating a cozy relationship between the two companies.
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Jeff Turner of Real Estate Shows tipped us off to Jott. Jott lets you send an email via your cellphone. Jott converts your voicemail (up to 15 seconds) to text and sends it to your email box or to another person or group’s email or as a phone text messa
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According to a Seroundtable Google and Yahoo have launched new solutions for mobile users. Google introduced new search engine for mobiles and Yahoo has started a mobile ad Pay-Per-Click campaign.
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Google has some great resources for Webmasters. If you have pages or directories on your site, or even images and snippets, you can stop Google (or other Search Engines) from crawling or adding them to their index.
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One of the quickest ways to increase your productivity on the computer is to go commando: stop using the mouse. When you stop relying on the mouse for everything, you’re forced to learn the keyboard shortcuts.
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Is reciprocal linking dead? Of course not. What should be history, is the practice of requesting reciprocal links for the purposes of improving search engine rankings.
