Ready for Microsoft’s new MSN Search?
Rumor has it that the MSN Search beta will make its official debut on MSN.com on February 1st. The source (a moderator at SearchEngineWatch Forums) seems credible, so I would put some stock in the claim. I’ve written an article about the new MSN Search technology — a kind of a “how-to” for marketers — […]
Kill the buzzwords and marketing-speak
I quite enjoyed reading Monster Blog’s Top 10 Buzzwords Better Left in 2004. I couldn’t agree more with all the points, with the one exception of “best practices” (an expression I love to use). Here are a few more buzzwords I’d like to add to Monster’s list: “ahead of the curve,” “low-hanging fruit,” “leverage,” “mindshare,” […]
A couple must-have free PDFs
Get ’em while they’re hot! Beginner’s Guide to Business Blogging by business blogging & copywriting guru Debbie Weil. Available free until January 25. Get this one NOW! Marketing Wisdom for 2005 published by MarketingSherpa. Contains 105 real-life stories and tips for marketers, from marketers.
Podcasting, pirate radio for businesses
Ever since I discovered the wonderful ITConversations.com, I have become a real fan of podcasting. Podcasting is a way of delivering audio files to your PC and then to your MP3 player (e.g. your iPod) whenever they are updated — automatically at night while you sleep. Although podcasting is quite new, there are already episodic […]
RSS is the ultimate opt-in
If you haven’t heard about RSS yet, you need to check it out! RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a standard designed for syndicating headlines and other web content to other websites. It has evolved into a popular means for individuals to keep up with the latest articles and musings across favorite websites — using RSS […]
Advertising in RSS feeds
I see that one of my favourite blogs, Signal vs. Noise is piloting text ads in their RSS feed. So far this is going over like a lead balloon, judging from the 120 comments posted after their announcement. Very few of the comments were positive — indeed a number were taken aback that 37 signals […]
Yesterday was a very good day
You may already know my company, Netconcepts, has a regional office in New Zealand. With New Zealand being such a small market, it’s a lot easier to get publicity in New Zealand than in the U.S. As far as Netconcepts getting publicity in New Zealand is concerned, yesterday was a red-letter day! First off, in […]
Bloody hell, that’s a lot of information
My feeling of technogeek euphoria that I got last month when Google doubled the size of their index has quickly evaporated as I perused Berkeley’s “How Much Information” study. Here’s some stats that will blow you away: The World Wide Web contains 167 terabytes of Web pages on its “surface” (i.e. fixed web pages); in […]
Insider Knowledge
Matthew Baldwin discloses some Tricks of the Trade — a sampling of secrets only those within that occupation are “in the know.” Here’s one such disclosure that was quite apropos to us web designers: If you have a client who is unable to approve a proposed design without putting her stamp on it, just put […]
