Archive for September, 2008
Sounds like a tupperware commercial, huh? But just like putting Tuesday’s leftovers in the fridge keeps you from having to go grocery shopping for another day, your website’s content is what grants it longevity. Let it sit too long, and search engines and visitors alike will just lose interest. The idea is to keep visitors [...]
(more)In our quest to stay informed about the latest and greatest business uses for social media websites, we stumbled upon (no pun intended) Ziggs.com. At first glance, Ziggs appears to be something like a love child between Facebook and LinkedIn - but with some extra perks (like being able to reload your Starbucks card).
In actuality, [...]
I’ve written a lot about my experience with virtual assistant firms like Brickwork (India), Get Friday (India), and BPOvia (China) - and how my results and impressions of their services have been mixed at best. A few months ago I mentioned that so-called VA firms seemed to be sprouting up everywhere; and now that the [...]
(more)A few months ago, we compared online data backup solutions and our top two contenders were Mozy and Carbonite. We ended up deciding that Carbonite probably suited us better, so why do I choose to remain on Mozy’s email newsletter list? Simple - their emails make me laugh.
I can’t provide you with any concrete [...]
As of the writing of this post, we’re in the middle of re-designing this website. We showed you the first draft of the re-design, and shared it with some trusted colleagues as well. Our revision process always moves a little slower on internal projects like this one because we only work on it in our [...]
(more)That old saying “keep it simple stupid” is my old standby when it comes to a lot of things in life - including marketing, believe it or not. So I was always a little skeptical of those animated people videos that appear at the bottom of some websites these days - thinking they must really [...]
(more)The other day I was patting Linkberry on the back for having put together a cool little utility that offers users a way to organize their favorite web links on a ’start page.’ So what if they had a few ads over on the side - they weren’t in the way. But the second I [...]
(more)At the 2007 Entertainment Gathering (EG) conference 2007, Kevin Kelly - founding executive director of Wired Magazine - shared an interesting stat: The World Wide Web, as we know it, is only 5,000 days old. In this talk, Kelly asked, how can we predict what’s coming in the next 5,000 days?
Predictions are always interesting to [...]
(more)As I was catching up on my weekend Tweets, I came across one that mentioned the launch of the new Google Chrome web browser. I am already a fan of most things Google, so I clicked on the link in the Tweet and started downloading.
The download ran seamlessly and Chrome was up and running [...]
If you want a stellar example of the use of social media (the term used to describe websites that invite users to collaborate and share), look no further than www.JonasBrothers.com. They’ve taken the best of the web and used it for their own purposes - to spread their brand virally (oh yeah…and to make money [...]
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