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Protect Your Pool, Your Family, Your Deck
Wednesday September 10, 2008
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Traditional pool safety covers require anchor points to be drilled into your pool deck, which creates a safety hazard from the bolts and causes discoloration and cracks. The Octopus pool cover frame works with both in-ground and on-ground pools and does not require bolts and anchors. It’s easy to assemble and use. After connecting the…
Website Optimizer: Website Design for Your Customers
Tuesday September 9, 2008
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Website Optimizer gives us the opportunity to create different versions of our website pages and to test how they are received by actual visitors. There are many well documented design theories out there. If you want to move past theories and test your actual visitors going to your pages Website Optimizer is the tool with…
Honda Civic GX, The Poster Child Of The Pickens Plan
Monday September 8, 2008
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In a recent TV spot from “the Pickens Plan” famous oilman T-Bone Pickens tells us how Iran is switching its vehicles to run on clean burning, abundant, Natural Gas. Next up at the Democratic and Republican conventions, Where our future leaders tell us that they too believe in clean burning natural gas. Nice to see…
The Battle for You: In the Age of Digital Convergence
Sunday September 7, 2008
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“Genuine intellectual curiosity is the attribute established brands need to be successful in the blogosphere.” – Geoffrey Moore With every second that passes the world changes, something new and exciting is created or an idea is set into motion that will forever alter how human beings live their life and interact with each other.…
Connecting with Photos and Videos
Saturday September 6, 2008
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You can write great text for your website and the search engines will crawl your site. Hopefully the search engines will like your text, consider it new and unique, but the bottom line is when the human being clicks on your site they usually look at the photos or videos first. Why is this? To…
NFL Football 2008-09 Picks and Preview
Friday September 5, 2008
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Do you remember who won the Superbowl last year?The new NFL schedule kicked off last night between the Washington Redskins and the Defending Champion NY Giants. The final score ended, Giants 16 Skins 7- all of the scoring which was in the 1st half.Here are my picks for the upcoming year”AFC:East- PatriotsNorth- SteelersSouth- JagsWest- ChargersNFC:East-…
IE, Firefox, Opera , now Google Chrome
Thursday September 4, 2008
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Google has had a relationship with Mozilla Firefox for quite sometime and now they decided to branch off and get in to the desktop applications at a larger level. Firefox lead engineer Ben Goodger began working on the Google Chrome project two years ago where at that point, he stopped contributing to Firefox. Firefox see’s…
More than SEO
Wednesday September 3, 2008
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The Internet today offers several avenues for exposure beyond traditional Search Engine Optimization. Working in concert with a firm that has expertise in these avenues can increase visibility, search engine rankings, and business. These avenues are often considered part of Social Marketing. One is to use the Internet to publish articles. You write the article and…
Google Chrome – Google Fires a Shot in the Browser Wars
Tuesday September 2, 2008
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In the Google way, they announce this product with a comic book, but this is not about your kids going to Webkinz this is about how the internet has itself turned into the application, and Google gets it. Gmail, Calendar, Documents, Photo, RSS, and Vids should not be sitting on a computer in your office…
View From The Pier – Photosynth
Saturday August 23, 2008
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The new Photosynth app is AMAZING!
Photosynth Presentation at TED
Friday August 22, 2008
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What is Photosynth? Imagine being able to share the places and things you love using the cinematic quality of a movie, the control of a video game, and the mind-blowing detail of the real world. With nothing more than a bunch of photos, Photosynth creates an amazing new experience!
Search Engine Marketing Newsletter Summer 2008
Friday August 15, 2008
Reading Time: 8 minutes
In this issue of the newsletter we discuss: A service that helps you determine which ad campaign is producing phone calls. Our new clients A listing opportunity for innkeepers The new Apple iPhone 3G Dick Fay’s new office location Track Your Phone Calls! Your website is optimized for your keywords, your Adwords are in place, banner ads have been placed…