Archive for September, 2009
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
Rapid growth continues to occur in the social networking marketplace. The amount of time that Americans spent on social network sites increased again in August, 2009. In fact, 17% of all time spent on the internet was spent on social network sites, according to a study from The Nielsen Company.
Online advertising on social networking sites [...]
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Monday, September 28th, 2009
I’m really trying to get it, but Twitter has raised $100 million for no apparent reason.
Twitter is now valued at over $1 billion!
Currently, the 60-person company has no plans to do anything significant with the money it has raised, but it’s nice to have it…just in case. Surprisingly, there are no plans to start monetizing [...]
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Saturday, September 26th, 2009
One of the biggest problems with computers is problems with registries. If you have a problem with a registry, you can bet that you will have computer software that is not able to do the required work that you want it to.
That’s why it’s important to use a registry cleaner on your computer periodically. It’s kind [...]
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Saturday, September 26th, 2009
There are many drivers included in your computer software programs and when you need to repair or add those drivers, it can be confusing.
Do you need a file extension mailhost for your computer software program? Then, you will need the proper drivers for those repairs.
Finding the proper drivers for file extension mailhost is not an [...]
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Saturday, September 26th, 2009
This blog is an example of how to make money blogging.
It’s not a lot of money, but it is a nice supplement to most peoples’ incomes. The advertisements included on the Get Clickz blog are prime examples of how you can make money while blogging.
There are a lot of blog sites that I see that [...]
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Saturday, September 26th, 2009
There was a time when sites were criticized for using FLASH on the home page as Google and the other search engines couldn’t read the sites. It may have been neat to watch, but if the site doesn’t get indexed, what’s the point?
No longer. Google has improved its ability to index FLASH content in the [...]
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Friday, September 25th, 2009
Thanks to a $100 million advertising campaign, BING, Microsoft’s search engine, is gaining ground on Google.
It’s not like it’s an even fight at this point, but BING is closing the gap, albeit a very wide gap. BING increased its market share of search from 8.0% to 9.3% in the latest study from Comscore.
Google still has [...]
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Thursday, September 24th, 2009
Americans are increasingly turning online for news.
A national study of news habits of US adults, conducted by Opinion Research Corporation, shows that an increasing amount of Americans are getting their news online. The study measured the percentage of news and information that Americans receive from various media sources each month.
The traditional media of television, newspapers, [...]
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Thursday, September 24th, 2009
It can be a problem. You are out drinking with the guys and come home a little in the tank. You go to bed, but the girlfriend or wife is fast asleep. Undaunted, you go to your computer in the office or den and look up the Erin Andrews video that the guy took through the peephole.
But, [...]
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Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
The Ashley Madison tanker truck drove through Philadelphia earlier this week and gained significant coverage on the local news channels. Not surprisingly, most of the people interviewed were not happy with the tanker being in the City of Brotherly Love and, in fact, city officials asked the driver to move the truck from a prominent [...]
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Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
It can be so frustrating some times. You hit some buttons on your keyboard by mistake and something
disappears and you don’t know how to get it back.
One of the most basic things to make disappear is the menu bar on Internet Explorer. In fact, you might not even know that it is called the “menu [...]
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
It’s been long suspected that Google does not use meta tags in its search engine rankings, but now it has been officially confirmed by Matt Cutts of Google.
Google confirms that some search engines may be using meta tags for search engine rankings, but it is not one of them. Cutts goes on to say that [...]
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
Keeping your browsing history can be a great thing on a private computer that only you use. If you forget what
that cool site’s URL that you were on last week was, you can go into your history and find it.
But, there’s also a negative side to keeping your history on a computer. You may visit [...]
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Monday, September 21st, 2009
Many companies believe they have maxed out pay per click search as a primary lead generation tool. Moreover, in the past few years, as companies have fought for market share, some pay per click categories have become overpriced. So, it’s not surprising that pay per click spending in the United States was down 21% in [...]
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Sunday, September 20th, 2009
Here are the top internet advertisers for 2008, as reported by B to B magazine from data accumulated by TNS Media Intelligence.
Monster
Hewlett-Packard
UPS
Experian
Capital One
Verizon
Career Builder
Bank of America
ING
Pythian Group
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Saturday, September 19th, 2009
There has certainly been a lot of talk about health care in recent weeks, as President Obama campaigns for
health care reform.
The growth in the cost of health care has been staggering over the past ten years. Since 1999, health care premiums have gone up a whopping 131 percent! This compares to workers’ wages which have [...]
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Saturday, September 19th, 2009
It has been several years since I’ve really been able to help my kids with their homework. This is especially true when it comes to giving them math help.
Now, I’m admittedly not the smartest guy in the world, but I’m definitely not the dumbest either. The problem is that I just don’t use those math [...]
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Monday, September 14th, 2009
There are some brands that when you see them, you just think of “cool.”
Columbia Sportswear is one of those cool brands.
Columbia was founded in 1938, actually as a hat vendor. Today, it has a wide array of clothing, including jackets, pants, shirts, and shoes.
Rugged with style is how I would describe Columbia Sportswear. It certainly seems [...]
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Monday, September 14th, 2009
Internet search engine use increased by 41% worldwide in 2009, according to a study by comScore.
The leading search engines nationwide were:
Google - 67.5%
Yahoo - 7.8%
Baidu - 7.0% (Chinese search engine)
Bing - 3.0%
Worldwide, there were 113 billion searches made in July.
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Sunday, September 13th, 2009
As if plunging circulation wasn’t enough, the newspaper industry was the worst hit medium from the horrible economy in the USA and worldwide.
Newspaper advertising revenues dropped 29% in the second quarter of 2009, according to the Newspaper Association of America. Nationwide, the drop converts to $2.8 billion less dollars flowing to what was once the [...]
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