Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Small businesses are missing great opportunities for Web traffic

Corporate Web site is updated more than once a week? It is integrated with social media tools such as Facebook and Twitter?

These may seem like a rather fundamental matters, the obvious here, but the number of small businesses do not zaskakującym often update their sites or utilizing social media, as could be. Cost? Lots of traffic.

Four of the fifty percent of small businesses to update their sites, less than, less than once a month, according to an analysis of the use of SMB Web site, issued by SiteKreator site creation tool, drag and drop for companies.

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

LinkedIn is releasing a video series for small business

Professional social networking site LinkedIn has published videos introducing the retro small enterprises to the site and has to offer for business users.

LinkedIn on a timeless Guide to small business success is edited with simulated vibe TV commercial of the 1980s, together with the Rainbow, early 1980s computer graphics and old school Apple II computer desktop style.

A series of films, which has been produced by the video editor in the upright citizens Brigade Rob Getzchman, was done in the style of the humorous, glass, because, as explained in the blog post, "the average office worker only view screenshot tutorial for a few seconds before the start of spontaneous narkolepsji." The series is sponsored by FedEx.




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Monday, April 11, 2011

70% of local companies to use Facebook for marketing

With little time and money to local small businesses are increasingly turning to free and low-cost social media tools for marketing. No wonder the world's largest social networking site tops the list of preferred tools.

Seventy percent of local companies using Facebook for marketing, according to a new report from the Merchant, the network of the U.S. local business owners. This represents an increase of 20% over the previous year.

The report concludes that for the first time, Facebook is used more than a Google local business online marketing.

Facebook also seems to be a benefit check location in space, with 32% of small businesses, saying: use of functions, compared with only 9%, which tried to Foursquare.

This new data is the same as the group buying site, ChompOn, disclosed its own data showing that Facebook updates are three times more effective than tweets about getting consumers to make purchases online.

Nearly 40% of the respondents to the survey to Merchant Circle said they used Twitter for marketing, marketing microblogging site, Facebook, and Google.

Increased use of social marketing for small enterprises should come as no surprise, given the very great acceptance of the popular social networks and low costs-often non-existent-for their use. Web marketing companies typically have also been New local companies about 51% of whom say that are called cold about marketing online services at least once a week.

Test Merchant Circle is based on random 8,456 small business owners in the United States.

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Sunday, April 10, 2011

Google gives advice on handling the search rank penalties

Some recent stories in The New York Times highlighted the questionable SEO practices-"dirty little secrets," as it under the title of his recent expose. In response, the ReadWriteWeb by John Paul Titlow wrote last week, "Why you should avoid black hat SEO Link systems at all of us." And actually, they should be.

But what do I do if the site is marked as spam (fairly or not)? What, if anything, can you do if your Web site have been the situation by Google?

Google search engineer Matt Cutts has posted his advice in the YouTube video that addresses how you can waive the penalty in the case of Web sites.

Cutts explains the difference between manual and algorithmic Visual penalties. They were a response to the reports submitted to the Google-flagged as spam, porn sites or off topic. But that data is also used to help improve Google Engineers, in the form of classifiers for spam content and keyword stuffing the search algorithm.

Large if the site I flagged by the penalties for the algorithm, if you change your website (move illegal aspects) and the site the user will be recrawled. Your Rankings should improve.

Cutts manual describes the flag as "timeouts". Such penalties shall last for some time-length depending on the seriousness of the misconduct of the user-but ultimately, they expire and the site should be able to improve its ranking again.

You can file a reconsideration request, which should help accelerate the removal of manual penalties. But this will not help if this is the question of the need to make the necessary changes to your website.

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Saturday, April 9, 2011

Optimizing your website with Overstat

Web site checks is important, but too often it is simply not the case. The reason you can include the cost, Convenience, technical resources — a name. However, today, when you run the scenic wants to take away these excuses and testing of your website-and, of course, the optimization of your Web site-extremely simple.

Overstat has many competitors in the area of optimization of Y Combinator Alum Optimizely. But Overstat the presentation today at startup will look as if the simple installation (just some JavaScript) and identify problems both interface and upgrade.

Overstat uses a heat Map to determine when the users are (or key) to help you identify buttons and links may need to be addressed.

Judges start seemed to like Overstat, and few of them have chosen to run as one of its Favorites from the first round of presentations this morning. And one quipped that perhaps we can merge with YouEye.

See also the eye tracking & user research made easy with YouEye automatically speed up your website with the Tweet Torbit

Friday, April 8, 2011

Collaborate in real time via the iPhone or desktop with Sazneo

Sazneo, Web applications, collaborate in real time, has launched a mobile friendly version for the iPhone, allowing team members to stay in touch while on the go.

Sazneo is a relatively new group chat app, which allows companies to break down the conversation on different channels, which may include team members, as well as persons outside the organization. Within each of the channels of IRC there is repository uploads, so team members can easily exchange documents, graphics and other files.

It offers very granular control of who see and participate in the flow of chat. The application also supports private email, instant messages. Conversation, which are no longer active, you can close and export to HTML for secure archiving.

Thursday, April 7, 2011

New target launch "Make document sexy" with Crowdsourced design

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Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Map your friends Facebook in few clicks

You know who your Facebook friends, but you can visualize where they are? You may be surprised when you see "where are my friends to be" Google Maps mashup with all their locations identified, showing how far away your friends really are.

We've seen other Facebook/Google Maps mashups before, but this is no different from other friend radio operators. It's fast, it only takes a few seconds click in, and suddenly she dropping little contacts around the world, showing you exactly where your buddies. Says one of its developers, Ajay Mehta:

"Amazingly, there are not many applications like this. There are a few that were very weak and eventually cancelled years ago. They did this visual or, most lame loading bar or something similar and comparison of laggy/slow. We have friends pop on the map in a cool, Interactive way (which was the hardest part to hack together). "

Mehta, researcher, College Freshmen Wesley Zhao and Dan shipper developed mashup that gives you a quick way to remind yourself that you're not in Kansas anymore, and are not your friends. Unless of course you all live in Kansas.

These infectious enthusiasm a frosh. Future Zuckerbergs?

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Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Motorola Xoom now available at Verizon

As previously announced by Motorola Xoom now available for purchase on Verizon. Later today, customers who pre-ordered the device will be able to pick them up at best buy stores.

Without contract Xoom is a hefty $ 799 for both companies; If you're ready to sign a 24-month contract with Verizon, the price drops to $ 599.

This is an important event because Xoom – first tablet company Android 3.0 (aka honeycombs), branch Android created specifically for tablets.

While tablets, powered by earlier versions of Android, such as the 7-inch Samsung Galaxy or Dell Streak tab, have had some success in the market, Google has always been pretty clear about the fact that Android 2.2 (Froyo) and 3 (cookies) are best suited to smartphones and tablets.

Honeycomb, on the other hand, should help Android tablets to realize their potential and become a serious alternative to Apple's iPad version. Of course we will find what Apple thinks everything 2 March when the company plans to make announcements about the iPad 2.

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Monday, April 4, 2011

The Apple Store down is the new MacBook Pros on the way?

After weeks of speculation and some seemingly genuine leaks on new MacBook Pros that were rumored to start today at the Apple Store is currently down.

"We are busy updating the repository for you and will be back soon," reads the Apple Store Home page.

We will monitor closely for any changes to the repository; If Apple starts with an update to its current line of MacBook Pro, this is what you can expect: Sandy Bridge architecture, faster memory, SDXC slot and Thunderbolt/mini DisplayPort, meaning that it is a display port and high-speed connection to i/o port. Stay with us.

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Sunday, April 3, 2011

Julian Assange loses the case must be extradited to Sweden

Verdict Julian Assange extradition hearing, and the news isn't good for the founder of WikiLeaks. He lost the case and is planned to be extradited to Sweden in 10 days. Assange has seven days to appeal.

Assange was charged with sexual assault two women he met in Sweden during a mission in August 2010. Although initially were acquitted of rape case was reopened later, and the Court of Appeal upheld the original charges.

In December of 2010 Assange surrendered to police and was arrested in London, where he was fighting a legal battle against extradition in Sweden.

Assange arrest is just one of many problems for WikiLeaks and its founder. Since he started releasing secret Embassy cables, website WikiLeaks has been the victim of DDoS attacks and several companies including Amazon, PayPal and its DNS service provider, EveryDNS.net, deny WikiLeaks.

The full decision can be found here.

Saturday, April 2, 2011

Syncapse scores $ 25 million for a full-service social media management

Syncapse Corp., platform, social media, enterprise-class, announced Thursday that it had received $ 25 million in financing from solo investor ABS Capital Partners, a solid late-stage growth equity. To date, Syncapse raises more than $ 30 million since its founding in 2007.

The range of firms social media Syncapse sits on top of the food chain. The company seeks to work with global enterprises with between $ 25 000 to $ 50000 to spare each month for full-service technical and business assistance using Syncapse platform for building, manage and measure social media campaigns and profiles across multiple sites.

Syncapse, which competes with the likes of Vitrue and buddy media currently works with BlackBerry, Electronic Arts and several unnamed large packaged CONSUMER GOODS and drinks company, according to founder and CEO Michael Scissons.

Scissons thinks of Syncapse in approach to space as little different from and Grander than social CRM — potentially market $ 1 billion, according to Gartner. "This is a hybrid content management, asset management, social CRM, measurement and analytics," he says.

Post finance, Syncapse next order of business will add to its team of 150 people. To this end, the launch will soon announce that Stephen England-Hall, CEO of Kjell is on the United Kingdom, will be joining Syncapse, to help build out his team Great Britain.

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Friday, April 1, 2011

New MacBook Pros have faster processors, zipper and HD camera

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Thursday, March 31, 2011

Get free food Chipotle for viewing NBC'S promo on Facebook

NBC Today begins a promotion offering free Chipotle meals for those watching 90 second promo on Facebook for upcoming show America's next great restaurant.

The network uses the application on show at the Facebook page, where, in exchange for watching promo, visitors get a buy one, get one free coupon for Chipotle. Founder and CEO, Global Steve, the chain is one of four investors in the show.

Customers who print the coupon you can get free meals, including Chipotle Burrito, tacos or a bowl with the purchase of another meal. Promotion ends March 6.

Meanwhile, Chipotle is working in a shop texting promotion offering a chance to get a burrito catered party. Anyone who texts "CIU" (for America's next great restaurant) anywhere Chipotle will have a chance to win.

NBC rep said, this is the first time the network used to get users to watch the show promo food. Nevertheless, the network tried other means give viewer loyalty. For example, last year, NBC has called his fan loyalty program that rewards users that contribute, interact and discuss NBC shows.

America's next great Restaurant, which premieres March, 21 6 pits contestants against each other as the Board of judges decide whose concept restaurant is best. Winner-"fully savor his/her great American dream of starting their own restaurant chain," according to NBC Rep.

For Chipotle, which does little in the way traditional advertising efforts is the latest innovative use of social media. Chains are similarly unusual effort last year to encourage consumers to send their spam e-mail messages in order to charity, offering a healthy school lunches for kids.

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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Preview Mac OS X Leo includes iPad such opportunities developers

Apple today introduced Mac OS X developer preview of lion that brings many features iPad — including multi-touch gestures-Wikipedia, the VKP. It is planned that the final version of the Lion to be available to customers this summer.

The eighth major release of Mac OS also includes mission control that provides new view all running on the computer, combining Expose, dashboard, and spaces; Launchpad, "a new home for all your Mac apps," which displays the Mac apps in your whole screen with a single click; and Mac App Store.

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

RIP MyBlogLog

MyBlogLog, service that allows bloggers to see who their readers will be closed at Yahoo come may, the company announced this morning in an e-mail message to users.

This move was expected, as MyBlogLog was part of Yahoo's now infamous presentation in December, to include a slide on the services the company will

Monday, March 28, 2011

Why Internet marketing does not have to keep track of children [opinion]

James p. Steyer, CEO and founder, common sense MEDIA, a non-profit organization that provides training and tools for parents and children's media and technology in their lives. You can follow them on Twitter at

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Disney acquires social network for children

Togetherville is a social network for children under the age of 10, has confirmed that it was acquired by Disney.

Site terms of use now to read, "Welcome to the Internet sites of the Walt Disney Internet Group.

Togetherville started in May and set itself apart from other social networks to children by helping parents-child interactions. In addition to viewing their children social network activity on the sites, parents can also send messages to their walls, select

Saturday, March 26, 2011

Box.NET raises $ 48 million to take on the giants of enterprise software

Cloud collaboration and managing company Box.net announced Thursday that it has closed a $ 48 million investment series d round.

Meritech Capital Partners led the round, which included prior investors Draper Fisher Jurvetson, scale venture partners and partners venture United States. New investors included Andreessen Horowitz and emergence Capital Partners.

We talked with co-founder and CEO Aaron Levie box .net's new round and what the company plans to do with the money. In short the aim is to use the additional funding to make the real competitor in the enterprise software space.

Investing in infrastructure

Box.NET makes no secret of their plans to take on IBM, Microsoft and Oracle space management and document collaboration. Two years ago the company sent me a t-shirt that featured the logo of Microsoft SharePoint and drawing Dodo bird.

To send to SharePoint and other Box.net competitors in extinction, companies must create its infrastructure so that the product can be easily serviced companies that store hundreds of thousands — if not millions — of documents online.

Box.NET still rents it data center space, but owns and operates its own equipment and will continue to expand and look into deploying data expenditures in areas closer to specific customers.

While focusing on expanding its engineering team is the key, Levie told us that the company also plans to grow its sales staff, so she can better compete with the big enterprise companies to bid for new and existing companies.

Box.NET corporate clients include Cisco, Dell and DreamWorks. Taking on these types of clients and keeping those customers happy is what will help transform the following Salesforce.com Box.net.

From consumers to enterprise powerhouse tool

Box.NET began its life as a storage cloud, consumer-oriented. In an era before Dropbox free cloud storage facilities were general commodities in early era Web 2.0.

Box.NET recognised that there is a real need for suitable cloud software, especially in the areas of document management and collaboration in the sphere of small business and entrepreneurship — and we think this is one of the main reasons why the company has continued to succeed, mobilize financial resources and to enter into a wide-ranging partnership.


Friday, March 25, 2011

Bing now shows your friends Facebook likes for all search results

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