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Wednesday, October 28th, 2009Constant Contact Event Marketing Launched
Monday, October 26th, 2009Constant Contact Event Marketing is available today!
Small businesses and organizations thrive on their ability to continually
strengthen customer relationships, and hosting events is a great way to do so,”
said Gail Goodman, CEO, Constant Contact. “Event Marketing offers our customers
a professional, affordable, and efficient solution for managing and promoting an
event from start to finish. As with our other product offerings, Event Marketing
addresses the unique needs of the small business owner or nonprofit organization
manager and turns an important, but often overwhelming marketing and management
task into a simple and effective process.
Check ConstantContact.com for more details.
Yahoo is pulling the plug on GeoCities
Monday, October 26th, 2009GeoCities is the 3.65 billion mistake Yahoo made in 1999. With a dollar figure like that we can all feel good about all of the bad purchases we’ve made. I digress…
Firstly, if you have a GeoCities site, I am sorry - not a fan. Secondly you can go here to find out what you need to do about your site.
This is all part of Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz’s plan to sell of some interests and focus on the following products:
- Homepage
- Messenger
- Everything “mobile”
- Search
- Media experiences across sports, news, finance, entertainment
It will be interesting to see how this impacts the future of Yahoo.
Google Audio - Shhh Don’t Tell
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009Google plans to launch a music service, Wired.com has confirmed with sources familiar with the situation. Next to nothing is known about the service at this point, rumored to be called “Google Music,” “Google Audio,” or “One Box,” although we have confirmed that it will be announced next Wednesday, and that it will link out to two music services: Lala and iLike.
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Wednesday, October 21st, 2009It was also reported today that Google has also inked a deal with Twitter.
Google plans to offer a dedicated service to search Twitter and to blend Twitter posts into its main search results.
Marissa Mayer, Google’s vice president for search and user experience, said that access to Twitter’s trove of real-time data would “improve our relevance, our comprehensiveness and our quality.”
Does this mean Twitter found a way to monetize? Finally!
Let the Real-Time Search Engine War Games begin!
Google pest a.k.a. Bing steps up promotion in China
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009Here is an article from PCWorld.com that highlights Microsoft intentions to step up promotion of Bing in China. China might be the only market where Google doesn’t reign supreme on top of the search engine (SE) market. In China the SE crown is worn, for now, by Baidu.com. Baidu has a majority of the SE market share and this post from an MSN blog does a great job explaining why.
If Bing can capitalize in international markets it is certainly a start. Regardless the little (really big) “decision engine” that could has gotten Google’s attention before. It remains to be seen if they can creep past 15% market share, at least.
Blog Ethics
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009I was about to write about an article I read on PCWorld.com today, but stopped to read an email. The email mentioned a company so of course I went to their site and ended up reading their blog and had a thought. Having your own blog is great, reading other blogs is great, but reading a blog and realizing the topic is a regurgitated story without giving any credit really feels like online plagiarism.
The topic was “Bing in Chinese“, a topic that blew up on Twitter and the blogosphere in late May. It was on TechCrunch and BrandInfection, so I will share the links here for those that didn’t see it back then.
Enjoy!
The Color Wizard
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009Do you love cool Flash tools, then check out the color wizard.
“The color wizard lets you submit your own base color, and it automatically returns matching colors for the one you selected.
It returns a set of hue, saturation and tint/shade variations of your color, as well as suggests color schemets to you, based on your color’s complementary color, split complementary colors, analogous colors and other variations. The color wizard also has a randomize function that lets you generate color schemes you might not have thought of on your own.”
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