Google 24 Hour Hotline?
September 24, 2009 - 12:00 pm by toddjensen
Google’s Matt Cutts explains what Google is doing to try and communicate with webmasters. No, they are not about to offer a customer support hotline, but they are trying to do a little more. It’s not much, really, but at least they know we want more information and contact- especially if we’ve inadvertently done something [...]
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Cloud Computing- Basics
September 23, 2009 - 12:00 pm by toddjensen
Some of our clients recently have asked us to explain Cloud Computing as a concept. I found this decent video from Ken Colbourn, who gives the basics and some examples. He also explains some pros and cons. Embedded video from <a href=”http://www.cnn.com/video” mce_href=”http://www.cnn.com/video”>CNN Video</a> Giving up some privacy, and placing your data in the hands [...]
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Testing You Website
September 22, 2009 - 12:00 pm by toddjensen
I recently read this nice article about testing your website. It’s pretty good and I highly recommend it. A couple points i gleaned from Daniel Waisberg, the author. 1. Your site is a laboratory, not a sculpture. Sometimes we’ll have a client that wants their site, or a page to be 100% perfect before it [...]
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Google Also Getting Visual
September 21, 2009 - 12:00 pm by toddjensen
A few days ago we posted about Bing going visual with their visual search, well Google is getting into the game as well. CNN posts a nice video that gives you a sample. Embedded video from &amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href=”http://www.cnn.com/video” mce_href=”http://www.cnn.com/video”&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;CNN Video&amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt; I like the direction this leads. The more visual search becomes, even more [...]
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Google Captchas reCaptcha
September 17, 2009 - 12:29 pm by toddjensen
Google is buying reCaptcha, to help with their book scanning initiative. reCaptcha specializes in those captcha’s you see on forms, that prevent spam bots from inundating a site with information requests. The company uses robust scanning technology to get the images from old books. Google is also in the business of scanning old books, so [...]
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Facebook & Bing Working Together…Taking on Google Together?
September 15, 2009 - 1:20 pm by toddjensen
We at TK have long mused wither Facebook would ever really try and get into the search business. Imagine, if you will, doing a search on FB for a local plumber and getting web results that integrate with your friends from FB. It could deliver results that had your friends searches and input as a [...]
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Just Plain Cool
September 12, 2009 - 4:16 pm by toddjensen
This post has nothing to do with SEO, SEM or internet development, it’s just about something that’s pretty cool. The University of Washington is developing a contact lens with an internal LED. Allowing the viewer to have ‘enhanced’ site, not just 20/20 site. More advanced options will include all kinds of great information, like health [...]
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