The Battle of the Smartphones!
Believe it or not, there are six smartphones on the market right now: iPhone, HTC Droid Eris, Motorola Droid, Palm Pre, BlackBerry Bold, and BlackBerry Storm 2. This is heaven for a technology girl/boy in a technology world (cue Madonna song). I will provide a ranking for all six power house phones to guide you in what phone will suit you best.
1-800-Flowers.com has become one of the first e-tailers to open a storefront on the social media monster Facebook. Now any Facebook user can browse and purchase from 1-800-Flowers Facebook page and if you become a “fan” of the page you receive secret discount codes. All of this allows Facebook users to do all of their flower shopping without leaving Facebook.
Over the past year, internet advertising revenues have declined by 5.3 percent. The bulk of interactive advertising spend comes from search and display related advertising. Search alone brought in 5.1 billion the first 6 months of this year. Display advertising (display ads, rich media, digital video, and sponsorship) has brought in $3.8 billion. It is important to note that digital video has grown by 38 percent since last year.
OK, so now you have a great new WordPress site with a snazzy design and a couple of article posts to get you started. Writing all those articles is going to be a lot of work, and will go to waste if no-one reads them. You need to remember to work on one of the most important aspects of your blog: internet marketing, and driving traffic to your blog.
But how to do it? Here’s a rundown on the top 10 ways to optimize for more traffic.
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A powerful “Clampi” Trojan is infecting millions of computers around the world. It embeds itself in your computer, undetected by many Anti-virus programs. It’s main goal? To spy on 4,500 websites including financial institutions and others that would hold your personal data.
The Clampi virus detects when you visit one of these sites and records your keystrokes to determine your login and password, then sends it to a record database where it can be used to steal your personal information and identity.
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So… the Wave is coming. But what is it, and how is it going to benefit us? In the showing of the developer’s preview demo, Wave seems to have much promise and it’s quite an impressive app. There are so many features and possibilities it’s mind boggling. You can check out the one and a half hour demo to learn more. That’s right. 1.5 hours of Google Wave. OR you can check out the 10-minute abridged version on YouTube.
What is it?
To sum it up, Google Wave is a powerful open-source communication and collaboration tool. Its creators, Lars and Jes Rasmussen (who also developed Google Maps), wanted to create a new powerful technology that could be used within a browser. When e-mail was first created, there were no web 2.0 apps like blogs, collaboration tools, social networking, and so on. So Google’s question is “what would e-mail look like if it were invented today?”. The answer: Google Wave – a tool that combines the power of just about every web 2.0 app you can imagine and packs it into a powerful collaboration tool.
Now, for the feature break-down.
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