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  • Web Manager’s Round Table

    I was fortunate enough recently to participate in a Web Manager’s Round Table at the National Cable & Telecommunication Association building here in Washington, DC yesterday and I found it most informative. First of all, I managed to get interviewed by Peter Corbett from Blattner Brunner regarding how broadband video can be an instrumental tool…

  • Flickr is NOT a Free Stock Photography Website

    Flickr is NOT a Free Stock Photography Website

    Something has web guru Molly Holzschlag up in a roar as she recently posted a little tiff she’s having with Virgin Mobile over their latest campaign on her website. There are a couple of things wrong with this campaign, in my opinion… Flickr is NOT a free stock photography site, people…and believe me, this is…

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  • All Hail Steve Jobs…the Geek of Geeks…

    Although not surprising and in an article on CNN.com, Steve Jobs, the founder of the worldwide best-selling iPod, has been named by Blender magazine the “undisputed king of the online music revolution” and has helped shape the way that music is listened in the world today. This ranking was in correlation to the magazine’s ranking…

  • ClickZ: Web Analytics as a Means to an End

    This was an interesting article on ClickZ.com relating to web analytics: Web analytics has generated a lot more excitement in corporate America over the past 12 to 18 months. More people within organizations are seeing the power that understanding visitor behavior online can mean to their business. People have been getting excited about Web analytics…

  • Gmail Available to All

    Gmail has finally finished its beta testing and if someone wants to sign up for an account, they don’t need to worry about having someone send them an invite and then go through the sign-in process. Rather, they can cut through the middle man and just go ahead and sign up for the account. Just…

  • Does Text-Messaging Double Opt-In Exist?

    Most people know that if they text a certain message to a certain number, they’ll receive a pretty neat message on their phone with something relating to the product they want. Take the Barack Obama campaign as an example…once you signed up for the text messaging, you’ll receive messages about the campaign’s progress and the…

  • Nielsen Tracking No More

    What are the standards of analyzing traffic on your website? Don’t ask the traffic giant Nielsen/NetRatings. They just announced plans to drop the longtime measurement of page views and instead focus on the amount of time a user stays on the website. The issue apparently has to deal with the growing inconsistency of measuring what…

  • SMS at the Movies

    I was at the movie theatre today and saw a preview for a quite hilarious movie called “Balls of Fury“. The premise of this movie isn’t the point of this entry, but rather the fact that at the end of the trailer, there’s a little notice at the end that motivates the viewer to get…

  • Accessing Your Myspace Page From Your Phone

    So perhaps this isn’t anything new, but if you noticed, AT&T has this new feature on their phones where you can view your Myspace page straight off of your phone. You could read and post blogs, edit profiles, add friends, etc. all from the comfort of a small screen on your cell phone. What’s interesting…

  • Hello, iPhone? Can You Hear Me?

    Looks like the Apple iPhone has suffered a little embarassment since its launch on June 29. While there was incredible hype for the latest iPod turned-digital entertainment portable console, one thing that the folks at AT&T and Apple probably didn’t think would be a great deal is the fact that people may want to be…