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August 2011

Google +1 Button SEO Data

On March 3th, Google launched “+1” as a way to challenge Facebook’s Cross-web “Like” button and how Bing has chosen to use Facebook “Likes” in their search results. The idea is pretty simple. Content recommended by friends and acquaintance is likely more relevant than content from strangers. For example, a Transformers movie review from an …

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July 2011

Web Tech Trends 2012

Early this year, HTML5 began to come of age. CSS3 matured alongside widespread adoption of the @font-face selector and the release of Rails 3.0 (which is partly what our Central enterprise project manager runs on). Clearly, it was a busy year for advanced web technologies. What web technology trends are on the horizon for 2012? …

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July 2011

Google Analytics Benchmark Results

Based on anonymous data sharing gathered from Google Analytics users all over the world, Google has just released benchmark results to Google Analytics users via an opt-in only eNewsletter. Absolute metrics such as total # visits, pageviews, or conversions for all opted-in websites are NOT reported. The benchmark report includes the following data. Review, share, …

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October 2010

Who is Andy Boyd?

A self-described ‘compulsive learner’, JDM’s new developer, Andy Boyd has extensive experience with both media production and data systems. He approaches challenges with well-honed analytical and aesthetic abilities, allowing him to tailor both systems architectures and the media content.

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March 2010

Online PR Trends to Follow

According to Janet Thaeler’s (@newspapergrl) article on AMEX’s OPEN Forum, the Internet has made it easier to find media contacts and form relationships with journalists, but more importantly the rise of social media and online PR has meant bypassing the media and going directly to your audience. Online PR has changed the PR industry and it’s not going back. While many of the same PR principles apply, there are a lot of new expectations for PR professionals.

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February 2010

Real Simple Syndication (RSS) Simplified

Simply put, RSS is a standardized, un-styled web page format used to publish frequently updated web content—such as blogs, news, job postings, etc. These standardized web pages (or ‘Feeds’) can be displayed (sometimes referred to as ‘consumed’) in RSS readers (like a web browser) or “aggregators” like Outlook or Feedburner. Here’s the point of RSS …

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February 2009

The Future of Mobile

There are currently about 3.2 billion mobile subscribers in the world, and that number is expected to grow by at least a billion in the next few years. Today, mobile phones are more prevalent than cars (about 800 million registered vehicles in the world) and credit cards (only 1.4 billion of those). While it took 100 years for landline phones to spread to more than 80% of the countries in the world, their wireless descendants did it in 16. And fewer teens are wearing watches now because they use their phones to tell time instead. So it’s safe to say that the mobile phone may be the most prolific consumer product ever invented.

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