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Getting More Subscribers To Your Ezine

An ezine, or electronic newsletter, is an effective way to get your message across to your prospects and clients.

SES Chicago Video: Bruce Clay

I’ve had a standing request for an interview with Bruce Clay for about a year now and we finally decided to just do a short one on video, which works for me and I think it will work for you as well.

Gmail’s New POP Fetching Feature

Gmail added a new feature that lets Google’s mail site retrieve email from up to five additional email accounts in a single Gmail account.

YouTube, CBS Can’t Handle The Truth

The YouTube community is very important to CBS, which wants to spur viewership of its lucrative broadcast properties; the community just isn’t important enough to eat at the same table as the CBS clips.

Think Firefox For International Sales

An American-based online entrepreneur may be willing and capable of handling sales to European destinations, but their websites need to be able to properly handle visits from those prospective customers who may likely arrive via the Firefox browser.

Ms. Dewey Has A Revealing Past

I’m sure many of you have heard and experimented with MSN’s Live.com interactive search engine Ms. Dewey, featuring the incredibly attractive Janina Gavankar in the role of Ms. Dewey who acts as a commentator concerning the search queries being entered. …

Traditional vs. Citizen Media – Social Darwinism

I’m sure there are many out there who ask or are asked this question, and many have not yet found a consistent answer.

Using Microsoft CRM to Manage Client Projects

As a Microsoft partner, we help our clients implement the solutions they purchase. One challenge we have is how to track the project tasks so that we can:

Web Accessibility from Within

Accessibility is an abstract concept for the average web designer/developer, because he or she has never needed accessible web pages.

Should Yahoo! Copy Facebook?

GigaOM Yahoo & Facebook: Deal or No Deal? Robert Young writing over at GigaOm says that Yahoo! should build a Facebook clone and target the 14-22 student demographic.

Networks Want Their Own YouTube

Old media is slowly waking to see the potential of online video content. CBS is a good example of this. Back in October YouTube launched a channel for CBS that has developed into a successful partnership between old media and new media. CBS has uploaded close to 300 clips since November to YouTube. Around 15 million people have viewed the clips.

NYT Digg Spammers?

If we’re to believe the tripe fed to us by CNET recently, we’d have to add the New York Times to the list of “spammers” and “scammers” out to game Digg. Why?

If/else-statement Performance Optimization
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Have you ever considered how well a regular if/else-statement performs? I haven’t, but after watching this Channel9 video I wanted to test it.

Chicago Clicktracks Party

One cannot go an evening at a Search Engine Strategies conference without some type of revelry and Wednesday night was no exception. Clicktracks delivered an encore of sorts by having a party at B.L.U.E.S. which is where TrueLocal had a party two days prior.

Google Does Podcasting

Google Base now has a podcast section, along with a special promo page asking podcasters to upload their casts to Base.

Google And Auto Dialers

Is Google spamming AdWords members with auto dialing technology? According to a WebmasterWorld post pointed out by Threadwatch, it certainly appears as if that’s the case. The poster in question, who happens to be an AdWords member, received an automated …

Online Holiday Sales Soar

Online spending continues to increase at a record breaking pace. Cyber Monday the first Monday after Thanksgiving saw online sales reach an all time high of $608 million. The record was short lived. Last Monday, December 4 online sales shot to $647 million according to comScore Networks. That is $39 million more in online spending than on Cyber Monday. It also marks a 26 percent increase over the same day from last year.

The Definitive Web 2007 Blog

I’ve been looking over what I’ve been putting on my link blog trying to see trends that are happening.

Google Joins, Endorses Eclipse

Google has joined the Eclipse Foundation, which describes itself as “an open source community whose projects are focused on providing a vendor-neutral open development platform and application frameworks for building software.”

Experts on Web Analytics

Starting Tuesday I am going to begin a multi part series in which expert Web Analytics Analysts from the industry will explain the “pains” they hear most about from their own clients.

Vista To Be More Generous Than Santa

Once Microsoft Vista gets into the marketplace, it will benefit the economy and drive job creation in the tech industry; no word on whether it will whiten teeth and freshen breath though.

Wrap-Up Thoughts About The Chicago SES

As most of you know, the WebProNews crew was in Chicago last week providing mad amounts of coverage, video and otherwise. Like the Vegas PubCon, the “theme” of Chicago’s SES had to do with social media optimization or SMO (there’s …

Web Gets User-Generated ‘Pop-Up Video’

You remember all the fun we had watching VH1′s “Pop-up Videos?” A start-up out of Israel has developed an interactive Web-based platform that lets users create their own pop-up videos by inserting comic-style speech and thought bubbles.

New York Times Gets With The Times

It seems odd at first glance that just because the New York Times caught up with the news-sharing concept by adding tools to submit to Digg, Facebook, and Newsvine got a whole article written about it in the Seattle Post Intelligencer. It’s about time, you might think, but the real story is the serious lift and credibility it gives those Web 2.0 sites.