2013
Customer Service and Digital Strategy
Earned media from great customer service carries a lot of weight today. A hotel that plans its digital strategy could reap benefits long into the future.
Pros and Cons of Leasing a Car
Much has been written over the years about leasing a car as a viable alternative to purchasing it outright. That it’s a very useful option, there can be no doubt, but like the purchase of absolutely anything nowadays, comes with its own unique ‘pros’ and ‘cons’.
SEO Agency Launches Google AdWords Campaign Targeting Bluegl
Vizion Interactive, an SEO Agency, has launched a Google AdWords campaign where they are specifically targeting searches for a competitor’s brand name. But, in this case it’s Blueglass, an interactive marketing agency that has had its share of controversy in the past few weeks
2012
DarthVader.com Given by Tucows to Rightful Owner, LucasFilm
LucasFilm brought us Darth Vader in 1977. Now, Darth Vader (as in the domain name DarthVader.com) is now owned by its rightful owner, LucasFilm. Tucows Domain Portfolio Vice President Bill Sweetman commandeered the domain name when it was not renewed by its current owner–and promptly arranged for the domain name to be given to LucasFilm.
The Battle of Social Search Engines: The New Bing vs. Google
Bing is set to release a heavily social integrated version of their search engine in the near future that might just give Google a run for its money. The New Bing will introduce a three-column design with new information architecture that will help users interact with their social networks.
Home Depot To Correct Misleading Link Request
It read like one of those bad link requests you get. Link to me, and you’ll rank better. It even suggested hiding the link. But the request was from Home Depot, to its network of nearly 2,000 service providers. Now that it’s come to light, the home improvement store chain says it is correcting the mistake.
2011
Elizabeth Messina Wedding Photography – Take Time amp; Enjo
Elizabeth Messina s blog, Kiss the Groom will immediately capture your eye with its portfoilio of unique wedding photography and before you know it, you ve spent 30 an hour just devouring post after post.
Company Settles with FTC for $250,000 Over Misleading Online
A company that sells guitar-lesson DVDs online has settled with the Federal Trade Commission for a whopping $250,000 over charges that the company “deceptively advertised its products through online affiliate marketers who falsely posed as ordinary consumers or independent reviewers”. The company supposedly schemed to have fake positive reviews po
2010
Business.com is Closing
Business.com is being shut down. Well, technically speaking, Dex One is realigning its interactive operations and will fully integrate Business.com into Dex One.
Exclusive Look: Where The Workers Who Made Your iPhone Sleep
Foxconn s factory in Shenzhen, China, is home to about half of its 420,000 workers. They make many of our gadgets and computers, then walk to dormitories on the 2.1-kilometer-square campus. I got to look inside.
Facebook Chat Client Launches Today
As a self confessed laptop or computer nerd, what particularly impresses me about this Facebook client is both its reliability when related to Facebook chat along with the ease with which you ll be able to customize the shopper. As an example, the Facebook chat client’s intuitive interface makes customizing shortcuts a breeze; I like that I can hot
How to Develop an iPhone App using Microsoft Visual C
by 1 otherDragonFireSDK is a Microsoft Visual C/C library. Its API consists of C/C functions that call native iPhone Objective C functions enabling iPhone App creation in Windows. Basically, you can develop iphone app games through a windows platform and then be sold through the apps store.
How to Buy a Chevrolet Corvette
The Chevrolet Vette is definitely considered to be one of the American classic sports cars. And the Vette, just like plenty of other great of American sports cars that are classics, the Vette has its enthusiasts. In Point Of Fact, there are a good deal of Chevy Corvette clubs all across the world.
Nominations Now Open for Wirefly Blog Awards
Wirefly, a leading internet retailer of mobile phones and service plans, is launching its first ever Wirefly Blog Awards to acknowledge and honor the other sites on the Web that best help consumers stay up-to-date and well-informed about mobile phones and the cell phone industry.
Clear Expands 4G Mobile Internet Service in Houston Texas
Clearwire has launched CLEAR 4G mobile internet service in the company’s 28th 4G market, Houston, Texas. Clearwire Communications, LLC, an operating subsidiary of Clearwire Corporation (NASDAQ: CLWR) has officially announced the expansion of its sales operations for CLEAR’s super fast mobile Internet service throughout greater Houston.
SortPrice Store Facebook Application Tops 1000 Retailers
Proving yet again a real commitment to opening new avenues of success for online merchants everywhere, comparison shopping engine SortPrice.com has now built virtual stores for more than 1,000 retailers through its Merchant Store application on Facebook.
comScore February 2010 Search Engine Rankings
comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) , a leader in measuring the digital world, releases its comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. In February 2010, Americans conducted 14.5 billion core searches, with Google Sites accounting for 65.5 percent search market share.
CheapTweet Upgrades Its Social Deals Search Engine
CheapTweet.com, a major Twitter-based social deals search engine site, has launched CheapTweet Version 2, in celebration of indexing over 5 million deals online to offer users an better social shopping experience.
myOneLogin SignatureBook Offering Digital Signatures
TriCipher, a provider of Internet identity services, has launched a hosted, on-demand version of its powerful digital signature solution. myOneLogin SignatureBook is an on-demand service that accelerates and streamlines business processes requiring non-repudiable signatures across different groups, organizations or geographic locations. It support
Class Action Suit Filed Against Google, and Google Buzz
Law firms in San Francisco and Washington, D.C., Wednesday filed a class-action complaint in San Jose, Calif., federal court against Google, and its Buzz technology, on behalf of Eva Hibnick, a 24-year-old Harvard Law School student.
Facebook Boosts Application Privacy Controls
Facebook has made it possible for its members to assign, on the fly, a wider variety of access levels to content they post using third-party applications and Web sites, the company said Wednesday.
Monetize More Users with Offerpal Tasks
Today Offerpal unveiled its latest product to help social game developers monetize their users - Offerpal Tasks. Built by leveraging Amazon Mechanical Turk, Offerpal Tasks allows gamers and social networkers to earn virtual currency for free by completing what Mechanical Turk calls Human Intelligence Tasks, small online tasks.
PathView Cloud Generates New Revenue for Managed Services
LinkStatus, an Apparent Networks customer and large managed services provider in the UK, provides continuous monitoring and testing of network performance so that its customers can focus on more important, business critical issues. The company specializes in assessing and reporting traffic type and volume; implementing services for deployment and m
TX Assoc of Realtors Political Candidate Endorsements
On March 2, 2010, the State of Texas will hold its Primary Election. The Texas Republicans and Democrats will select their nominees based on the outcomes of primary votes held on March 2, 2010, which is the first Tuesday in March.) If a runoff election is needed, it will be held on April 13, 2010, the second Tuesday in April.
Enersource Hydro Mississauga Deploys Oracle Utilities Solution
Enersource Hydro Mississauga (EHM) recently replaced its legacy customer information system (CIS) with Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing to improve customer satisfaction and help comply with its soon-to-be-implemented Time-of-Use (TOU) billing requirements.
