Friday, February 10, 2006
Tons Of Web 2.0 Logos
Boy I had so much fun looking at all these logos that Ludwig Gatzke has posted on his Flickr page. It's sort of a where's waldo to find your favorite website.
Here's a fun game:
1. Count how many companies drop the last 'e' a la Flickr
2. How many orange logos are there? (Boy thats the hot color these days eh?)
Email me for the answers ;-)
Boy I had so much fun looking at all these logos that Ludwig Gatzke has posted on his Flickr page. It's sort of a where's waldo to find your favorite website.
Here's a fun game:
1. Count how many companies drop the last 'e' a la Flickr
2. How many orange logos are there? (Boy thats the hot color these days eh?)
Email me for the answers ;-)
Internet Searches Up 55% Over Last Year
Nielson//Netratings reports that the total number of searches in the U.S. conducted across approximately 60 search engines grew 55 percent year-over-year to nearly 5.1 billion searches in December 2005. According to their study Google represented nearly 50% of the searches with Yahoo and MSN coming in a distant second and third.
Google is continuing to show increasing marketing dominance with a 5.7% increase of the total searches.
Nielson//Netratings reports that the total number of searches in the U.S. conducted across approximately 60 search engines grew 55 percent year-over-year to nearly 5.1 billion searches in December 2005. According to their study Google represented nearly 50% of the searches with Yahoo and MSN coming in a distant second and third.
Google is continuing to show increasing marketing dominance with a 5.7% increase of the total searches.
Thursday, February 09, 2006
Super Bowl Commercials Posted On Google
OK, so I'm not a big football fan and I'm defiantly not a big commercial fan but....
I have to admit there are some funny ones this year. Google has them all posted back-to-back. Bud Light takes it for the fall on the floor funny category for Hidden Bud Light and the Awwwww Award goes to Budweiser Clydesdale American Dream.
OK, so I'm not a big football fan and I'm defiantly not a big commercial fan but....
I have to admit there are some funny ones this year. Google has them all posted back-to-back. Bud Light takes it for the fall on the floor funny category for Hidden Bud Light and the Awwwww Award goes to Budweiser Clydesdale American Dream.
Tons of Free Music
OK so I am still digging my Pandora account. I was happy to see them integrate the personal favorites page (here's mine) and the ability to purchase the song/CD from iTunes or Amazon.
Very cool, but you can't pick the exact song you want to listen to and you can't download them for later.
Here's a new site to uncover cool new music called Audiri. They let you stream or download the songs. I was having fun listening to the Audiri top 100! I'm diggin this little band from Texas called All Save One. The song Godzilla Handle is number 3. I like the line -- "Putting a spoiler on a Honda Civic does not make it a sports car." -- Very true.
OK so I am still digging my Pandora account. I was happy to see them integrate the personal favorites page (here's mine) and the ability to purchase the song/CD from iTunes or Amazon.
Very cool, but you can't pick the exact song you want to listen to and you can't download them for later.
Here's a new site to uncover cool new music called Audiri. They let you stream or download the songs. I was having fun listening to the Audiri top 100! I'm diggin this little band from Texas called All Save One. The song Godzilla Handle is number 3. I like the line -- "Putting a spoiler on a Honda Civic does not make it a sports car." -- Very true.
Fantastic Pictures From ChinaWe've been doing quite a bit of work recently with our client's Chinese divisions, including site translations and email communications so I have had China on my mind this week. I came across these absolutely fantastic pictures. Check em out here!
PRWeek says Start Your Search Engines
Our PR team over at Mason and Onofrio put a nice little article on my desk this morning from the latest issue of PRWeek. I have been talking to the PR team for a while on how to use our SEO tools to research and integrate keywords into their press releases to be picked up by the major engines and news sites. We also work with them to RSS enable their clients news pages so they are also indexed by the RSS search engines as well.
Anyway, the article does a good job of summarizing the three major tenets of search engine marketing:
1. Keyword rich text
2. Good clean code and site architecture
3. Strong link development
The article also uses a new term for social book marking:
Folksonomics - ways to organize digital content in a transparent and community-minded way. Very interesting way of describing sites such as spurl and del.icio.us.
They also touch on Google Base. I've been reading about this for a little while now, but I don't actually think I ever posted about it! My initial thought was that this was one of the Google experiments that wasn't quite ready for prime time. However the interesting idea about this is that people upload their content to Google instead of waiting for Google to come and spider their site. Kind of a search index push instead of search engine pull. If this takes off, it could be another avenue to get your product, service or offer into the Google database. Interesting.
Check out the full article here.
Our PR team over at Mason and Onofrio put a nice little article on my desk this morning from the latest issue of PRWeek. I have been talking to the PR team for a while on how to use our SEO tools to research and integrate keywords into their press releases to be picked up by the major engines and news sites. We also work with them to RSS enable their clients news pages so they are also indexed by the RSS search engines as well.
Anyway, the article does a good job of summarizing the three major tenets of search engine marketing:
1. Keyword rich text
2. Good clean code and site architecture
3. Strong link development
The article also uses a new term for social book marking:
Folksonomics - ways to organize digital content in a transparent and community-minded way. Very interesting way of describing sites such as spurl and del.icio.us.
They also touch on Google Base. I've been reading about this for a little while now, but I don't actually think I ever posted about it! My initial thought was that this was one of the Google experiments that wasn't quite ready for prime time. However the interesting idea about this is that people upload their content to Google instead of waiting for Google to come and spider their site. Kind of a search index push instead of search engine pull. If this takes off, it could be another avenue to get your product, service or offer into the Google database. Interesting.
Check out the full article here.
Monday, February 06, 2006
Every Geek's Dream
An article in the Wall Street Journal talks about tech support to the stars. One guy who works for Geek Squad has been on tour with U2 since 2004 to make sure Bono's XBox is hooked up. Imagine kickin back with Bono and playing video games? That's just about the coolest thing I've heard in a while!
An article in the Wall Street Journal talks about tech support to the stars. One guy who works for Geek Squad has been on tour with U2 since 2004 to make sure Bono's XBox is hooked up. Imagine kickin back with Bono and playing video games? That's just about the coolest thing I've heard in a while!
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