With the unveiling of a new, improved logo and dropping the logotype, Twitter has entered what AdWeek says is “a new era for the social network—one where Twitter is so powerful and omnipresent that they don’t need text for name recognition.” From Twitter’s statement: Our new bird grows out of love for ornithology, design within […]
Sometimes a problem is so bad, the worst thing you can do is talk about it. Worse than that, however, is talking about a problem when you are completely uninformed on the topic. While spam volumes are at historic lows, the amount of email that traverses the Internet that is unsolicited rubbish was still 68 […]
I don’t do HTML mail. It gets in the way of communication. I recently brought this up with a client and their response was they found it ”refreshing.” That was good to hear, as on this end facing only 12 point Courier as you compose strips away the pretense and forces the sender to really […]
Today and today only, when you visit opera.com, the home of the most popular mobile browser, you will get a simulated look into the inbox of Opera co-founder Jon S. von Tetzchner. In a clever bit of Flash coding you can browse Jon’s inbox, each message revealing amusing copy. But the most important message is […]
Today we learn via Forbes what we’ve known for thousands of years: males compete, women converse. Of course that’s an oversimplification, yet it’s almost that basic: women use social networking tools to make connections while men use social networking tools to raise their status, leveraging content-oriented sites like Digg, YouTube and LinkedIn; I believe UC […]
Even if you’ve never heard of the Visual Data Group, you’ve probably heard of QlikView, the world’s fastest-growing software company. Visual Data Group is North America’s Elite Reseller of QlikView, an amazing business intelligence product that uses in-memory analysis and reporting to manipulate millions of database objects rapidly and intuitively. Visual Data Group is a […]
Mass distribution of desktop publishing tools will result in a lot of bad desktop publishing. Even if you never heard the word “hypertext” until 1995 you could still become an industry expert and author on the topic by 1997, even if your last job was in a grocery store. The “free” and unfettered construction of […]
Largely under the radar, a new “free user generated content community website focused on the workplace” launched mid-December. “In the short time that Telonu has been in beta, it has achieved a strong following with large companies via word of mouth indicating the underlying need for a ‘Yelp’ for the business community,” said the company’s […]
A little-known feature of Google’s search engine crawler could turn site stats on its head: Google Sitelinks. Our process for generating Sitelinks is completely automated. We show them when we think they’ll be most useful to searchers, saving them time from hunting through web pages to find the information they are looking for. Over time, […]
Reading the wikipedia entry for geo targeting, one would think this a near-impossible task: The automated discovery of user city-level information based on IP addresses by trace routes, pings, and a combination of other tools and methods is far more advanced. It is dependent on the pre-analysis of the entire IP address space. There are […]